Famous Quotes & Sayings

Orison Swett Marden

When God calls a man to be upright and pure and generous, he also calls him to be intelligent and skillful, and strong and brave.

Bonnie Bedelia

Whenever there's heavy-duty emotional work to be done, they call me. As for playing the completely off-the-wall, sexy, gorgeous lady that I am - no, they don't think of me.

Alice Sebold

I find talking about my work harder than it might be if honesty wasn't my calling card.

Andy Behrman

Manic depression is a type of depression, technically, and it's the opposite of uni-polar. Manic depression is also called bi-polar disorder. Some people don't like to call it that because they think it makes it sound too nice, when the reality is if you have manic-depression you have manic-depression.

Bernie Sanders

As Vermont's senator and a member of the Budget Committee, I will not support a plan to reduce the deficit that does not call for shared sacrifice.

Andrew Nikiforuk

Canada now calls itself an 'emerging energy superpower.' In reality, it is nothing more than a Third World energy supermarket.

Scott Stewart

We're logging about 40 calls a month. It's staggering. It's all over the state. This is huge, the number of people that have gotten it wrong.

We're like a little family. I call them my cousins even though we have no relation. But we're really close.

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.

We battled. The officials didn't call much. There was a lot of pushing and shoving, but we battled. We like to play that way anyway.

Was it a penalty or not? I saw the replay and it was questionable. They're calling everything. We didn't help ourselves. We ended up taking hooking penalties, holding and obstruction penalties.

Adam Goldberg

We actually might get a lot of letters and phone calls from normal society.

Ollanta Humala

We are living a dictatorship of the rich. I am happy that the rich and powerful call me anti-system if it is their system that keeps Peru in poverty and misery.

We are just part of the coalition; we are not spearheading it at all. Whatever the immigrant rights community calls for is what we support.

We are just not able to keep up with the number of wildfires we are having right now. These guys are actually from North Mississippi. They came down to help us out. We are so short handed that we have had to call in other crews to help us out.

We're at the mercy of whatever the market's calling for.

Michael Phelps

We're eager to have our readers be able to read the newspaper in 18 to 19 minutes. My wife calls it 'Newspapers Without Guilt.' I can read the newspaper, get through this newspaper before it goes on the recycling stack.

We're down five with the ball, call a play and then don't execute it. That's a microcosm of our season.

Brian Smith

We're done with the tough stuff. We're fine tuning. We call this week the check-up from the neck up.

We used to get a response in two or three calls. Now we can call 10 CEOs and not get a response.

We used to call them mini town halls. We're kind of getting away from that now, but it gives you an understanding of what services we offer there.

Sachin Tendulkar

We used to call him the 'Shadow Man' for this habit of his.

We understand you communicated with us by calling several different locations. Our inability to talk has been a concern for us as it's been for you.

We shouldn't grab, we should call police, maybe chase him, but you know yeah, we shouldn't grab him. The risks outweigh the rewards of getting the money back. If one of those guys would of gotten hurt last night, I couldn't have lived with it.

We shouldn't call winners or losers immediately after a debate. Those calls have been useless as a guide to what really matters. . . . What matters is what the press focuses on.

Jessica Mitford

Walking through the streets of New Haven (Conn.) with William Sloane Coffin Jr. is like being in a movie about a small-town folk hero. People come up to shake his hand, students run after him with urgent questions, old folks stop their cars to call out, 'Good luck Bill!' and 'Howdy, Reverend.

Steve Martin

I think when I was young, let's call it high school, and even before that, I just loved comedy, and I loved comedians. I grew up watching Laurel and Hardy. That's really a long time ago. I loved Jerry Lewis. I just loved comedians.

Joel Salatin

We move the cows every day to a new spot which allows the grass time to recuperate and go through its what I call 'the teenage growth spurt.'

Bjorn Lomborg

A review was published in Nature, very scathing, essentially calling me incompetent, though they didn't use that word. I am putting a reply on my Web site in a few days, where I go through their arguments, paragraph by paragraph.

I got a call on a Sunday. 'Do you want to do 'The Godfather?' I thought they were kidding me, right? I said, 'Yes, of course, I love that book' - which I had never read.

Alan Grayson

If you want people to support you, then you have to support them. You have to think long about what you did for people who voted for you, made phone calls for you, who went door to door for you.

Amity Shlaes

In my view, if you have one in 10 unemployed - something is wrong with the economy whether you call it recession or not.