Famous Quotes & Sayings

We're not finished with the expenditures for the storm. We're considering what we call polling the towns, which is when we go all night and take the snow out of the village, so that would be more expense.

We are jumping right into the heat of our spring season. Even though it will be our first event, we're going to pick up right where we left off in terms of our caliber events.

Kim Basinger

I've been to fights, and I've seen them on television, but no, I would not call myself a fan of the sport, that particular sport, no.

Ben Jonson

Let them call it mischief: When it is past and prospered t'will be virtue

The question has to be asked, 'What's not going to happen so the California emissions can happen?'

Laurie Anderson

The promoter called and said, 'What should we do?' People were calling to say they were sure it was canceled, but I thought that to have a public event that night would be a good idea.

Steven Taylor

The only court in which these California rights ... can be enforced is this court.

The one without whom people do not conquer; the one to whom, when fighting, they call for help; the one who is a match for everyone; the one who shakes the unshakable, he, O people, is Indra.

Joseph Addison

Tis pride, rank pride, and haughtiness of soul; I think the Romans call it stoicism

Iggy Azalea

T.I.'s my mentor; he's a really close friend of mine. I call him my brother like we talk on the phone all the time. He's helped me with my career.

Tim is very calm and does a great job. A calm and informed voice on the radio goes a long way toward keeping the driver composed in the car.

Tim had to calm me down to put things in perspective with how far we had come that we were in that situation.

Traditionally, wake-up calls are meant to wake you up rather than send you to sleep: the clue is in the wording. But those who talk of wake-up calls tend to have an easy-going way with words.

Tom Harkin

This study should be a wake up call to all Americans, and specifically to those of us in Congress who have stood idly by as more and more junk food inundates our schools,

Ellen Galinsky

This study is a clarion call for all of us -- companies and individuals -- to look at how we're working.

You look at the call under the basket, and I don't want what I say to be misinterpreted. I like to put a lock (on what I say) and save my money. I got to get some groceries this week.

Mike Phillips

You don't need to call me back, I already have my results. Call the winner.

Today's corporate race cars go real fast and real straight, and they're awe-inspiring, but they're kind of predictable. Vintage drag racing is grass roots, it's not what I'd call professional, and it's very unpredictable.

Mario Balotelli

If I go out in the street and one guy gets a picture, then someone calls the press to say Mario was there. The day after in the press, it's, 'Mario was there'. That's normal, I just walk in town like a normal guy.

George Cukor

I suppose they call me a woman's director because there were all these movie queens in the old days, and I directed most of them. But I also directed Jack Barrymore and Ronald Colman and James Stewart, to name a few.

Gary Oldman

I had what AA calls 'a convincer' - which made me realize that I couldn't do it any more. I went out drinking for about 70 hours here in London. At the end I knew I was done.

Gordon Lightfoot

Turning back the pages of my sweet shattered dream, I wonder if she'll ever do the same; And the thing that I call living is just being satisfied With knowing I've got no one left to blame.

Greg Boyle

We lose our right to be surprised that California has the highest recidivism rate in the country if we refuse to hire folks who have taken responsibility for their crimes and have done their time.

Tommy Chong

Cheech and I used to call ourselves musicians; we never called ourselves comedians. We were musicians that were funny.

My childhood name that my father gave me, my mother, my grandmother, grandfather, family and friends all call me T.I.P.

Sugar Ray Leonard

I run three to four times a week. I go down to Orange County in California and I run all the time... all the time. You see the oceans, the trees. I like running in hot weather. I like to sweat and get all those toxins out of my system. I thoroughly enjoy it.

William Moseley

My mom used to call us 'free range kids,' like free range chickens... We roamed the countryside.

William Collins

Prior to Wordsworth, humor was an essential part of poetry. I mean, they don't call them Shakespeare comedies for nothing.

Ving Rhames

Miss Goodblatt would call on me to read. She said I had a talent. So on a whim, I auditioned for the High School of Performing Arts in Manhattan.

Ashley Jensen

I was Lady Gaga way before her time. I had a wee kettle for a handbag. Didn't everyone, at some point? One of the teachers used to call me Dame Flora Robson because I had this big, long Victorian skirt. And I wore a Peruvian hat. It was the 1980s - people were wearing lots of lace.

Bonnie Raitt

Sometimes I don't go into the studio for quite a while because I haven't found enough good songs. They have to have a certain caliber and connect with me because I'm going to be playing them for the rest of my life. I start off with a circle of friends whose songs I love anyway.

Ben Carson

Intelligent people tend to talk about the facts. They don't sit around and call each other names. That's what you can find on a third grade playground.

Benny Blanco

I used to cold call labels and pretend I was one of their artist's attorneys. I'd say, 'This is Jay-Z's attorney, we need to speak with Craig Kallman,' you know, owner of Atlantic, and they'd say, 'Right away,' and then I'd be like, 'Please just listen to my demo tape!'