Famous Quotes & Sayings

If they would give us a half-hour one day next week, we would call off the protest.

Jimmy Roy

If they weren't able to put those players on long-term IR, they wouldn't be able to call many guys up.

If this really is just rewarding teachers financially for what they should be doing with their paycheck, I don't call that pay-for-performance.

If this isn't a wake-up call for real disaster planning, I don't know what will be.

Tom Burke

If this is just a variation of the millions of ideas already out there, no one is going to be interested. There are too many calendars chasing too little retail space. There's going to be fallout in the industry.

Gail Sheehy

If you're the person living closest to the parent who's going to need help, and you take on the whole role of primary caregiver, you can be pretty sure your sibling who lives farthest away is going to call you and say, 'You don't know what you're doing.' Because they're not on the spot, and they probably feel guilty.

Gail Collins

There are lots of reasons for that gap between men's and women's wages but to me, the big one is the work-family issue. Trying to juggle children and a job is tough under any circumstances, but especially if you're shooting for the kind of career that involves long hours at work and being on call 24-7.

Gene Robinson

And God is always calling me to open myself to all kinds of people that I've never thought about before and also calling me on this inward spiritual journey.

Gene Robinson

It seems to me that if God calls us to anything it's to a life of integrity.

Gene Robinson

God calls all of his children to the table. We can disagree and even say a lot of hateful things, but what we can't do in good conscience is leave the table. Or demand that someone else not be at the table.

Garet Garrett

The New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.

Greg Lynn

Without a computer, every point on a structure has to be calculated with reference to everything else. But by using a PC, I can create complex curves that don't have radii or centers.

Milan Baros

We knew we needed a strong defensive game and we got it. I thought it was a penalty, but the referee didn't see it that way. Fortunately, the next call was made and Jan was right on the mark.

Scott Moir

We learned something about being in the lead. We couldn't hold back with the caliber of skaters nipping out our heels, so we really had to go for it.

Subcomandante Marcos

We learned a long time ago that we should never subject ourselves to the schedules of the powerful. We had to follow our own calendar and impose it on those above.

We have contacts in major cities with mortgage brokers. If we have leads that come in through our Web site, right now we just call the brokers. We're smack dab in the middle of creating a lead generation engine.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

I have a lot of what you might call creative self-loathing - I have pretty high expectations, and they seem to consistently be higher than what I'm able to accomplish.

Emmy Rossum

I never walk into the studio and say, I'm going to write a song called... 'X' or called 'Slow Me Down.' I write a ton of lyrics, often the title is somewhere in those 10 pages of... I call it brain vomit. It's kind of like whatever comes out of my head and I'm unabashedly just writing it down.

Ellen Goodman

Call me a cockeyed pessimist, but I'm having trouble finding any good news in the trashing of Harriet Miers.

Blake Jenner

In junior high, I was picked on for being the small skinny kid who enjoyed being in drama. All the drama kids, we were looked at like we were aliens, and people would call us names and say, you know, 'It's stupid to be in drama.' They would say a lot worse things, to be honest.

I'm doing what all modern artists do now, which is nothing - just sit around and dream about things. I'll do what they call 'the stroke of genius.'

Bill Buford

Most chartreuse recipes call for one bird, a fat one, like a pigeon or a partridge, secreted inside the casing, a vegetable mold, which is then turned out onto a plate.

Everything is just better in California - the wine, the food, fruits and vegetables, the comforts of living. Even the instrumentalists are generous and curious. Everything is wonderful.

Bill Engvall

I'm a California Angels fan because that's the first game my dad took me to see, and they stuck with me.

Billy Collins

We love, you know, children love the ingredients of poetry. And then they go into this tunnel that we call adolescence, and when they come out of it, they hate poetry.

Thomas Dolby

There are a lot of producers coming out calling themselves interactive and a lot of them at the moment are being designated by the big companies.

There are a lot of people who will not make a claim even if the loss isn't their fault and is well over the deductible. What's disturbing is that you're paying a premium that is calculated to cover the risk that you actually use the policy.

There are a lot of people who are tremendously overextended and we're now getting down to a level to where these margin calls are massive, ... The calls are going out right now.

Judith Collins

there are a lot of new immigrants: from Korea, India, Fiji. It's not what you'd call a naturally National area.

David Icke

We are reflections of one another, therefore I know that you are part of me and I am part of you because we are all projections of the universal principles of creation/destruction polarities of the same infinite consciousness that we call God.

Debi Mazar

Life is just too short to count calories forever!

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

It is with great disappointment that I call on Representative Anthony Weiner to resign. The behavior he has exhibited is indefensible and Representative Weiner's continued service in Congress is untenable.

Hill Harper

Whatever your calling is as a service, follow it - that's beautiful.