Famous Quotes & Sayings

I call on the people of Tripoli to restrain themselves and not get drawn into conflict with anyone.

Nikola Tesla

All knowledge or form conception is evoked through the medium of the eye, either in response to disturbances directly received on the retina or to their fainter secondary effects and reverberations. Other sense organs can only call forth feelings which have no reality of existence and of which no conception can be formed.

Norman Schwarzkopf

Moving into an unoccupied village when there's no opposition, I don't call that a military victory.

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.

When the participants told me they couldn't find anything to can, I told them to go out and identify different kinds of fruit trees in their own neighborhoods. When people found out we were doing this, they started to call me at home, saying, 'Please come harvest our fruit tree. We'd love to give people the fruit.' Pretty soon, I had 50 names.

When we would call other hospitals to see what they do, most said they didn't know. For other people, it's no big deal.

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.

We do a lot more things than other teams. We do more calls and reads, so I think by Sunday the guys were just feeling more comfortable. One of the things in rugby is that if you're the better team, you'll wear your opponent down. I think we were fitter and smarter and that slowly paid off.

Silvan Shalom

We would like to ease the life of the Palestinians. I prepared a new plan that we call a positive agenda.

Shaun Alexander

We were all talking and cracking jokes, then all of a sudden there's a big bang. We all got tossed around inside a little bit. It was a little of a wakeup call for all of us.

We were a little too sloppy in our own end, but there were obviously some calls that didn't go our way. We made a lot of mistakes and there were questionable calls on goals or lack of goals.

We definitely heard a note of what I would call healthy reality from some of the folks this time. There's a lot of office space in Bentonville and a lot of retail space coming online.

We don't like calling him a janitor. He does way more than that.