Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jeff Olson

I can still call up and get a unit of plywood if I need it.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

I can see one guy doing what we call an 'air flare' ... and I'll see 30 other individuals do the same move in a competition. Not one of those b-boys did anything to try to twist it and make it their own.

I came out to California to live with my mom in Orange County for a while, and then I came up to Hollywood. I had just turned nineteen. I took an acting class at Playhouse West and decided, 'Wow, I think I can do this!' I studied really hard for three years before I got an agent.

I came out and said it was me, ... Everybody on the sidelines was frustrated. I said if we keep getting frustrated we're going to go out there and make more errors. So we just calmed down and after that we were communicating and stayed on the same page.

Carmelo Anthony

I don't like to say slump or anything like that. I don't know what to call it. He got out of his shell.

Bryan Murray

I don't like people calling the character of our players into question.

Alejandro Toledo

I don't negotiate with gangsters. I call on Fujimori to step down tomorrow.

Louis Tomlinson

Woah! Calm down, Curly!

John Flanagan

How can you stay so calm?" It helps if you're terrified.

John F. Kennedy

Mr. Nixon has, in the last seven days, called me an economic ignoramus, a Pied Piper, and all the rest. I've just confined myself to calling him a Republican. But he says that is getting low.

Jonah Lehrer

Even when alternative views are clearly wrong, being exposed to them still expands our creative potential. In a way, the power of dissent is the power of surprise. After hearing someone shout out an errant answer, we work to understand it, which causes us to reassess our initial assumptions and try out new perspectives. “Authentic dissent can be difficult, but it's always invigorating,” [Charlan] Nemeth [a professor of psychology at the University of California at Berkeley] says. “It wakes us right up.

Jon Stewart

California is choosing between the lesser of, uh, 300 evils.

John Lancaster Spalding

We are more disturbed by a calamity which threatens us than by one which has befallen us.

Emily Ratajkowski

The movie industry has been contacting me. I have been auditioning - that's actually why I am in California. I was here meeting with studios and auditioning.

Jimmy Fallon

The White House is apparently pushing to create more Latino-themed landmarks. Now that's in addition to our current Latino-themed landmark, California.

Joel Silver

When California provides the same value as other locations, I'd gladly shoot all my pictures here.

People began to understand that with the acquisition of California the nation had obtained practically half a continent, of which the future possibilities were almost unlimited, so far as the development of natural resources and the genera production of wealth were concerned.

The construction of extensive railways, however, and particularly the consolidation of small, experimental lines into large systems, dates from the days of the discovery of gold in California

Johann Georg Hamann

Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it.

Joan Rivers

Life goes by fast. Enjoy it. Calm down. It's all funny.

Garrison Keillor

Some of us have a relentless urge to attempt what we can never be good at and neglect our true calling.

The lines of communication are all out. I've tried e-mailing her, I've tried text-messaging her, I've tried to call her. I just can't get in touch with her.

The loss of that line was such a huge, significant loss that we had to issue a call for blackouts to keep demand and supply in balance.

The main purpose of a liquid diet is weight loss. Most liquid diets are low in calories for rapid weight loss but they are not for everyone.

Carmelo Anthony

(The loss) was a wake-up call for us. We can't take nothing for granted right now. These last 10 games, I think you'll see a better focus from the team.

The main part of this plant is cooked. But new vines, which we call suckers, will come out and replace these dead ones. These sucker vines will carry less tomatoes and they won't be pretty. This will be a sucker crop this spring.

James Ross

The main negative is pressure on margins due to increased wholesale traffic and call prices coming down.

Jimbo Fisher

The little things he does that I see, things the fans might not see, are so much better now. Little things. He calls plays. He manages the game, manages the clock, manages the players, the signals, the checks.

Woody Allen

The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep.

The job always has to come first. If you have a customer who wants to meet with you on your telecommuting day, you may decide not to telecommute that day. You make sure that if you get a lot of calls that you can get back to them quickly.

The Jewish calendar, which is lunar, is a calendar of witness. The Sanhedrin, Jewry's Congress, met in Jerusalem toward the end of every month to wait for the new moon.

Hermann Ebbinghaus

The learning of the syllables calls into play the three sensory fields, sight, hearing and the muscle sense of the organs of speech.

Plato

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.