Famous Quotes & Sayings

We're not getting call after call from people saying just sell me out.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!'

Benny Blanco

I can be at my house sitting there making music alone, and every single time I've ever done that the first thing I do when I'm done, no matter if it's 4 in the morning... I literally just pick up my phone and I call someone.

Tommy Franks

I'm not a fan of what we call 'friendly fire' or 'blue on blue.' We don't want to have that.

Tom Weston-Jones

Jessica Rabbit! People wouldn't call her the most beautiful person in Hollywood, but I find her quirkiness and talent very attractive.

I had someone call me this morning telling me they had somebody who would only work a certain number of hours a week because if they worked too many hours a week then they couldn't get their government assistance. And that person has multiple cell phones, and gets them new every month with new minutes.

Tyler Hamilton

You can call me a cheater and doper until the cows come home. But the fact remains that in a race where everybody had equal opportunity, I played the game, and I played it well.

When the refs aren't set or the ball's not right, like when they say, 'Wait, wait, wait, we've got to move it back a yard,' or something, and the clock's still going. The refs probably ice you more than anything. But when they call timeout it's not that big of a deal.

When the Pentium 4 first came out, the performance was very disappointing to a lot of people initially. It's hard to call the Pentium 4 a failure, given how many they sold, but it was certainly an evolutionary dead end.