Famous Quotes & Sayings

R. A. Salvatore

The most common criticism I've seen is that I write 'popcorn fantasy:' lightweight action-adventure. Some people call it that as they explain why they love it for exactly that reason. I'm cool with that, either way. I just nod and let it go.

Karlheinz Stockhausen

The more people use modern means of communication, all kinds, they call this the media, the more they are interested in the possibilities.

Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it.

Ralph Merkle

There are certain things that are inherently scarce. For example, there is only a certain amount of beachfront property in California. It is going to be scarce, it is going to be expensive.

Michael Pollan

California's Proposition 37, which would require that genetically modified (G.M.) foods carry a label, has the potential to do just that - to change the politics of food not just in California but nationally too.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Are you calling me out? (Varyk) I’m calling you slow. Not out. (Dev)

John Milton

And join with thee calm Peace and Quiet, Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

To learn more about science, turn off your electronic device and go outside and look around a bit. Nature is calling you. Go on. The internet will still be here.

John Steinbeck

Why don't you go on west to California? There's work there, and it never gets cold. Why, you can reach out anywhere and pick an orange. Why, there's always some kind of crop to work in. Why don't you go there?

John Steinbeck

Americans are much more American than they are Northerners, Southerners, Westerners, or Easterners ... California Chinese, Boston Irish, Wisconsin German, yes, Alabama Negroes, have more in common than they have apart ... The American identity is an exact and provable thing.

Sheryl Crow

However I am is however I am. When you see me onstage or in the press, there's not a lot of thought and calculation that goes into it.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Simi? You got some free time? (Kat) Of course I do. You know akri on Olympus with that heifer-goddess I want to eat, but he won’t let the Simi have no dinner. So why you calling me, little akra-kitty? (Simi)

Nicolas Chamfort

Calumny is like the wasp which worries you, and which it is not best to try to get rid of unless you are sure of slaying it; for otherwise it returns to the charge more furious than ever.

Mort Sahl

You haven't lived until you've died in California

Meg Whitman

Regulation is strangling businesses of all sizes in California, and we've got to streamline regulation so it's easy, not hard, to do business.

Lee Child

A calm environment is for after I finish work.

Peter DeFazio

There is a lot of lip service paid in this Congress and downtown at the White House about family values and small business. Who better represents family values and small business than the fishermen and women on the Oregon and California coast.

Mariano Rivera

I like a calm life where nobody bothers me.

Maureen Johnson

Keep calm and carry on. Also, stay in and hide because the Ripper is coming.

Thalia

Oh, SCULLION? You’re calling ME a scullion? What the HECK is a scullion?

Michael Lewis

In Bakersfield, California, a Mexican strawberry picker with an income of $14,000 and no English was lent every penny he needed to buy a house for $724,000.

I guess its kind of a wake-up call for us. We just got to get better.

I had a guy call me last week about it, and it looks pretty good. I talked to the guys and they want to do it.

Chris Leak

I had guys calling me to see extra tape this summer. That was special,

I had gotten a call from the White House indicating they had gone in a different direction.

I had friends call and wake me up.

Tom Neff

If the major labels decide tomorrow that folk music is cool again, it would be what we call a nice problem to have. But nobody's waiting for it to happen. They're taking matters into their own hands.

It has spurred a lot of new interest. I am getting more and more calls every day.

Keith Brooking

It helps us a lot ? and not just because of the enthusiasm it gives us. It causes problems for the opponent. They have to call timeouts. They have false starts. All those things are very big.

It has gotten easier to plan the tournament as the years have passed. People are calling to put their team into the tournament.

Mitchell Reiss

I think all of us are pretty disappointed with the abdication of responsibility by many unionist leaders, ... No political party, and certainly no responsible political leadership, deserves to serve in a government unless it cooperates and supports fully and unconditionally the police, and calls on its supporters to do so.

I suggest that the anthropomorphic god-idea is not a harmless infirmity of human thought, but a very noxious fallacy, which is largely responsible for the calamities the world is at present enduring

I think our coaches did a good job of calling plays, we just need to do a better job of executing. We had some opportunities, but that's what you get with a young team.