Famous Quotes & Sayings

Samantha Power

Americans have long trusted the views of Democrats on the environment, the economy, education, and health care, but national security is the one matter about which Republicans have maintained what political scientists call 'issue ownership.'

Roger Stone

Big brother listening in on your phone calls - I got a problem with that.

Rosamund Pike

I find I clash sometimes with people who like to plan things and book you in for lunch. I'd rather someone call me up, say: 'Are you free tonight and d'you wanna go to the roller-disco? Or play pool?'

Martha Beck

The great power of separating the watching mind from the thinking mind is that the watching mind is innately loving. Some call this part of the psyche the 'compassionate witness.' Sharing our difficult feelings with a compassionate witness is the crucial step that heals the infinite small wounds inflicted upon the soul by everyday life.

Marlee Matlin

By the time I was a teenager, my desire to be daring and taste everything got me in trouble. Too often, I was in the company of kids my parents would call 'wild.'

Michael Arrington

If a tech journalist needs financial security before doing what their conscience dictates, I'm not sure they should be calling themselves journalists at all.

Patrick Nielsen Hayden

There's a latter-day notion that artsy hippie types in the 1960s disdained the space program. Not in my experience they didn't. We watched, transfixed with reverence, not even making rude remarks about President Nixon during his phone call to the astronauts.

Patrick Ness

How you leave the reader is so important - not the climax; I call it the 'exit feeling'.

Marcus Samuelsson

Children want to mimic adults. They notice when you choose to prepare fresh vegetables over calling in another pizza pie for dinner. They will see that food made with love and care outweighs going through the drive-through window.

Marissa Jaret Winokur

My God, what did I do before Facebook? I guess I had to call people and see how they're doing! Now I can just read a post and call when in trouble.

Marissa Jaret Winokur

The truth is if you can eat just a serving size, you can eat anything. But we all know how those harmless treats can call out your name all night long, and rationalizing in the middle of the night is very easy.

Joe Manchin

We know it's going to happen again, a flood or a natural disaster, ... People need a place to call home for a period of time.

Chris Rock

Well, now's the time for you to do something for them. Do it for the children who have been left without parents, for the sick that have been left without medicine, and for the families left without a place in the world to call home.

Two years ago, I had to make the call to my wife explaining that our two-week vacation was canceled. It's not always easy - everyone has plans and things they want to do.

Two years ago, I had to make the call to my wife explaining that our two-week vacation was canceled, ... It's not always easy - everyone has plans and things they want to do.

Carolyn Maloney

unfortunate that Karen Hughes' response to this criticism, calling it 'a gross distortion' shows that she still doesn't get it. The only gross distortion here is mentioning law-abiding, patriotic, pro-choice Americans in the same sentence as terrorists.

Tom Izzo

We were kind of discombobulated. I thought I had better call a timeout. We were scrambling.

We were just a call or a play away (from winning). We took the No. 2 team (in Class 4A) to the wire.

Tom DeLonge

We were joking about enemas and I said, 'We should call it

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." ()

James Gandolfini

I think everybody better support a raise for you guys. I think everybody should think about that. You pick up the phone, you call for help, nobody answers.

Bill Gates

I think five or six years ago, if you'd said to people that software would be incredible in terms of making photos better, music better, TV better, phone calls very different, they would have been quite skeptical, they would have thought, 'How can software do that? Now, particularly in music and to some degree in TV, they've seen that it makes a huge difference. It allows them to pick the things that they're interested in, it allows them to see it when they want to, to share with friends what they've seen and what they like.

I saw it and I questioned it, and (the male employee) said that's what everybody calls it.

I saw Red at his home (Monday), and he's very excited about the team. We have a red seat reserved for him. When he isn't ill, he comes. And he calls the next day to say what we should do different.

I see Christ as the incarnation of the piper who is calling us. He dances that shape and pattern which is at the heart of our reality.