Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sam Altman

I suppose if I didn't have Loopt, I'd have to, I don't know, pick up the phone and just start calling people, a lot more texting and certainly more Googling.

Alexandre Dumas

...but my friends call me Edmund Dantes.

Rick Perlstein

There is no freedom without groceries. There are no groceries without freedom. What people call 'capitalism' and 'socialism' are actually one and inseparable. It's a virtuous circle.

Rick Perlstein

The argument that John F. Kennedy was a closet peacenik, ready to give up on what the Vietnamese call the 'American War' upon re-election, received its most farcical treatment in Oliver Stone's 'JFK.'

Richard P. Feynman

When I was a young man, Dirac was my hero. He made a breakthrough, a new method of doing physics. He had the courage to simply guess at the form of an equation, the equation we now call the Dirac equation, and to try to interpret it afterwards.

Robert Wilson

There are schools teaching 'stage decoration' as a subject, and they actually call it that. I say: 'Burn those schools!'

Ron Wood

I heard this massive thud. I spun around, and there Keith was, on the ground. He'd cut his gums up on impact, he was very bloody, and clutching his head. I think it was a kind of wake-up call for him.

Bruce Pearl

We're not communicating. We're capable of defending better. I call it having a sense of urgency. You need it this part of the season.

We're not calling this a sequel. We're calling it the next installment.

We're not calling this a drowning. The investigation will continue and we're awaiting autopsy results to determine how the child died.

We're not calling the people out as long as we see that Elian's case remains in the courts and the government is not moving to suddenly take Elian back to Cuba.

We're not calling it a ripple effect; we're calling it a reverberating effect.

Life is not a continuum of pleasant choices, but of inevitable problems that call for strength, determination, and hard work

Henry David Thoreau

Let us make distinctions, call things by the right names

Make no mistake; they're not just ordinary drug traffickers. To call them that would be something akin to calling Al Capone a tax cheat.

Rex Miller

Luke has a hard time getting off his back. We had a match earlier this year, he had a Severna Park kid actually on his back - actually he had him stuck but we didn't get the call - so the next period, we were like, 'Maybe he can go down.' He turned into the guy and got put on his back.

Maine's been at the top of the league so long and now it's a situation where we're in a rebuilding year - if you would call it that - but we are down, and I think teams are taking that opportunity and really coming after us hard.

Mac is what I call the new Chrysler Corporation, ... You may have watched him in the Senate (race). He is nothing like that. He has put together a team. He is totally focused on being a challenger, working hard, raising money and being out there everyday.

Madrid was a big wake-up call to us, yet we did relatively little. It really seems to me a matter of time before it happens in our country -- in part because it's so easy to do.

Chevy Chase

Let's not call physical comedy falling down and pratfalls. All humor is physical, no matter how you dish it out. It's timing, like a dancer or an athlete would have.

LaMont Jordan

Let's just call it what it is: We came out flat. We're not going to the playoffs. It's the first time all year I can say that.

Ashwin Sanghi

It's foolish to call Chanakya an Indian Machiavelli. Rather, Machiavelli was possibly an Italian Chanakya.

Tahyna Tozzi

I love drama - mum calls me a Drama Queen!

Tove Lo

There was this lynx at a zoo that was called Tove, and that I totally fell in love with. It was my dear godmother who decided to call me Tove Lo, after that lynx. It stuck.

Ted Cruz

And if you want a commander in chief who will fulfill the most solemn obligation of the president to keep this nation safe, then support a candidate who has demonstrated the commitment, the judgment, the experience, the clarity of vision, to identify our enemy, to call it by its name, radical islamic terrorism.

Tommy Bond

I don't know what he meant by 'they're after me.' And then I said, 'You know, Bobby, I'm here for you. If you need any help, give me a call.' And then he did call me about a week later, and wanted to know if I had a good attorney.

What we do is put an aluminum plate with a barcode on the top of the laptop. It has a 3M sticky tag underneath which sticks to the laptop itself reading 'Stolen Property' with a phone number to call if the plate is ever removed.

Jay Wright

What we do he used to call chuck and duck. I love all the intricate sets he used to run, but with the personnel we have, we've got to let these guys go. We really stress playing together and we have the kind of guys who enjoy that.

What we call stomach flu very often is rotavirus. It's a serious problem. It's not something to be ignored.

Havelock Ellis

What we call "Progress"is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance

Brian Jacques

Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty.

In law, one's sense of calling or vocation will lead one to be interested in certain dimensions of Constitutional law.

Jonathan Safran Foer

I am an on-and-off vegetarian. Sometimes on, mostly off. I think it is better to be a vegetarian but occasionally, the call of the hot dog overpowers my ethics.