Famous Quotes & Sayings

Buzz Aldrin

I'm urging NASA to foster the development of what I call 'runway landers.' No, that's not the name of a high stakes gambler from Vegas. It's a type of spacecraft that flies to orbit like the retiring Shuttles but then glides to a landing like an airplane on a runway. Just like the Shuttles do.

Bob Newhart

I was an accountant in Chicago, and a friend of mine, Ed Gallagher, was in advertising. At 4:30 every day I'd be bored, and I would call him. He'd interview me.

Wal-Mart over the last five years has been able to grow its same-store sales at 6 to 7 percent. Now that growth has dwindled to 2 or 3 percent. I call this a gigantic change.

Karl Rove

Memo to White House: Calling voters stupid is not a winning strategy.

My co-stars call me selfish. They say, 'You are only interested in yourself and what you are only interested is yourself and what you are doing in front of the camera.' I reply, 'I can't help it; it's what got me where I am.'

Kailash Satyarthi

I call for a march from exploitation to education, from poverty to shared prosperity, a march from slavery to liberty, and a march from violence to peace.

Gottfried Leibniz

This is why the ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.

Our calling is not just within the walls of the congregation, but we are part of the life and community in which our condition resides.

Warren Farrell

Those who call me an opportunist are following the old rule: If you can't attack the data, attack the person.

Tony Hawk

I've definitely had my share of calls where I just laugh. Someone came to me once and wanted to do a signature Hawk cologne. I was like, 'Of what? Sweaty pads? Am I wringing out my pads into a little perfume bottle?'

Derek Hough

For me, there's nothing more masculine than when I'm completely in control of my body and can call upon my body to do whatever I want it to do.

Dennis Bergkamp

I think it is time to call it a day, and watch the game from the stands.

Chandler Parsons

It's rare in the NBA, but I have a lot of young female fans from eight to eighteen because of the way I dress and the way I do my hair. People sometimes call me a pretty boy, but I embrace it. It's fun, and I guess it just kind of comes with being a good looking white guy in the league.

Dan Pallotta

And when your phone rings, pick it up. Open yourself up to the possibility a phone call offers. Discover this remarkable device called the telephone. It will give you a serious competitive advantage.

Daniel Suarez

When you write a high-tech thriller, and then people in the defense establishment start calling you - people I can't name - you feel you've hit a nerve.

Louie Gohmert

The dirty little secret on Wall Street: Eighty percent of the Wall Street executives' and their spouses' donations go to Democrats. It's like they've got some kind of little sweet deal, where we'll call you fat cats and demean you and stuff, but you will get richer than your wildest dreams.

Kenneth R. Miller

The new strategy is to teach intelligent design without calling it intelligent design.

Kendall Jenner

What people don't understand is that calling someone too skinny is the same as calling someone too fat; it's not a nice feeling.

Linda Ronstadt

You have the United States, and you have Mexico, and then you have this Mexican-American thing which is this third culture, which I like to call Aztlan.

We don't have preconceived notions about a team, ... That would be unfair. You call it as you see it.

We don't have guys on this team that are like that, that are going to call guys out. We love each other. These are the closest friends I have.

We don't have anything we could call a complete hypothesis yet.

Niklas Zennstrom

We don't have any launch dates yet for any of those platforms. It's going to be wonderful to be able to make a Skype call from cell phones or PDAs.

Hugo Weaving

Initially I probably didn't even call it acting, but dressing up or something. As a kid I think you fully imagine the world in which you want to inhabit, so you put some clothes on and just kind of freely imagine this world, and it's a total imaginary world.

We're not sure who are No. 2 is going to be. As of now, we're just calling him Johnny All-Staff.

We are responding to the call of the international community in helping to see what we can do. We want to try to use the diplomatic option before more extreme ways to deal with the situation.

We are pleased that the group followed up on the governor's call for reform, and we feel that this proposal puts more trust back in the Environmental Trust Fund." ()

We are one step away from being perfect. Things happen for a reason and perhaps it's a needed wake up call for this team.

Suresh Raina

I have time only for cricket, and when I am not playing, I love to be at home, chat with my family, do puja with them, call for some yummy paani puri, etc. Also I love to cook. I can make dal, sabji and chicken! But, at home everybody's a vegetarian, so I can't cook non-veg at home!

Harlan Coben

I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, I love to fool you a third time. And just when you think it's all over, I have what I call that Carrie hand-out-of-the-grave moment. Just when you think it's all over, I'm going to hit you with just one more. I can't help myself.

If you call on God to improve the results of a shot while it is still in motion, you are using 'an outside agency' and subject to appropriate penalties under the rules of golf.

If Mr. Selwyn calls again, show him up; if I am alive I shall be delighted to see him; and if I am dead he would like to see me.

I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.