Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Jones

I never read. I've never read one book... I just can't do it. Something's wrong with me. I have what they call now is 'ADD,' like I'll read and all of a sudden I'll be thinking about shopping or... I'm not there. I drift off. I get crazy, so I don't even bother.

Steve Jones

I'm not the kind of guy a girl would take home to her mother. She'd kick the girl out and probably call the cops on me.

Steve Forbert

I'm still trying to make it. I'm still trying to get this over and do it and hopefully leave some kind of a mark on the course of American music, particularly in the tradition of what you might call the singer-songwriter.

Henry Petroski

We call the fates of the Titanic and the Concordia - as well as those of the space shuttles Challenger and Columbia - 'accidents.' Foreseeing such undesirable events is what engineers are expected to do. However, design trade-offs leave technological systems open to failings once predicted, but later forgotten.

Henri Bergson

I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body: they transmit movement to it.

Henry B. Eyring

Let us do whatever is required to qualify for the Holy Ghost as our companion and then let us go forward fearlessly so that we will be given the powers to do whatever the Lord calls us to do.

Helen Thomas

Great presidents take stands, and they fight off these people who really are so far to the right. I don't want to call them names, even though they would call me names.

Helen Thomas

We have organized lobbyists in favor of Israel. You can't open your mouth. I can call the president of the United States anything in the book, but if you say one thing about Israel, and you're off limits.

Heidi Klum

I'm not someone who plays hard to get. This whole thing about 'Oh, let's exchange numbers' and then people wait four or five days before they call you? I don't see the point. If you feel something, why would you let that pass? You only live once.

Haruki Murakami

I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call it imagination. To me, it's not imagination. It's just a way of watching.

I call it predicament humor. You don't do anything that cuts the star off at the knees or worse. You make him intelligent; you give him great ideas and great things to do.

Our focus going forward is on sectors where the life of China's middle class can be upgraded: health, travel, leisure, education, and the Internet. We call it marrying China's growth with global resources.

Jim Haslett

The play at the end, the call by the officials, is flat-out chicken (. . .),

William Shakespeare

What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet

Anthony Johnson

We've got to do a better job of getting him on the move and coming off screens. Tonight he showed us that he can get the job done coming off screens. So from now on, when the game's on the line those are the play calls that we're going to make and hopefully he can take us home.

Gottfried Leibniz

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.

Caroline Leavitt

I call Algonquin Books 'the gods and goddesses of publishing.' Not only did they give me a career, they care deeply about every writer in their flock.

John Flaherty

With every pitcher, if you call a pitch you know where he's going to miss if it's not right so you prepare for it. With Wake, I don't think you have that luxury. If he throws a knuckleball, you just don't know where it's going to go.

With counter protestors, that is where many of the issues arrive. They usually have the opposite side of extreme thinking and things like nasty name calling between groups can happen.

Without the crucial information provided by Mr. Holmes and without the phone call from Mr. Donahue, we could not have caught these suspects.

Jennifer Granholm

With outsourcing, with NAFTA-we call it SHAFTA in the state of Michigan-but truly we have struggled with the global economy.

Todd Solondz

With Storytelling, at least, it's explicit: this is what the censors say American citizens, no matter what age, are not permitted to see, even though it can be seen by other people all over the world. I suppose you could call it a political statement.

John Long

We have more and more people calling us day by day. There's a huge trend in pet-sitting.

George H. W. Bush

We must all hear the universal call to like your neighbor as you like to be liked yourself.

Aishwarya Rai

Well, when people call me real. I love it. And it has a lot of meaning, ... It means a lot to me and it's touching. People would see that and acknowledge it.

When the employee told her to wait because she had to call the manager, the woman took off.

When we played at Texas A&M this year, we got called four times for balks, and the balk calls on our club are way up. Last weekend in California, we got called for balks. Umpires are cracking down on it.

When we think we've gathered up enough information, we'll call a special meeting to discuss these issues with you.

Dimitar Sasselov

When we think of what is necessary for the phenomenon that we call life, we think of compartmentalization, keeping the molecules which are important for life in a membrane, isolated from the rest of the environment, but yet, in an environment in which they actually could originate together.

When we tell them it was shot in Canada, they're still interested in Wyoming. They don't hang up and call Alberta. They're intrigued in the story.

Jalal Talabani

We will call today for holding the meeting on the 12th of this month because it is the last day that the constitution allows us to hold the meeting of the new parliament.

Ayman Nour

We will call for ... a re-election. There were violations ... regarding the right of the voter to cast his ballot.

Flip Saunders

When I watch film, they played zone, ... They just didn't call it zone.