Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kristen Wiig

People always call me a comedian. And I don't really see myself like that. I guess I just consider myself an actor who does comedy. But who wants to do other things as well.

Leslie Fiedler

I love it now that a large minority of people who are handicapped prefer to call themselves crippled. This is all part of the game, like queer theory.

Ted McGinley

Hollywood's all about, 'Let's make this easy: This is what you do, so you go over here in this group, and we're not gonna call you.'

Al Michaels

This was as tough a call as I've had to make. It wasn't 80-20, it was 51-49.

Gabrielle Zevin

I hadn't ever felt any particular calling to be a novelist, and I clearly remember telling a friend of mine about six months before I started work on 'Elsewhere' that I would never write a novel.

Eduardo Galeano

We have a memory cut in pieces. And I write trying to recover our real memory, the memory of humankind, what I call the human rainbow, which is much more colorful and beautiful than the other one, the other rainbow.

I am a doctor - it's a profession that may be considered a special mission, a devotion. It calls for involvement, respect and willingness to help all other people.

Ellen Potter

I pretty much always knew I wanted to be a writer. I was writing goofy stories when I was 7 or 8. That was what I call 'wishful-thinking writing.' I grew up in the city and always wanted a horse, but there was no way I was getting a horse. So I wrote all these stories about kids who had horses. It's still fun entering these other worlds.

Complete objectivity is not an option. We are all subjective about the way we respond to 'what is,' whether it's the people we encounter, the circumstances in our lives, or ourselves. What we can do is reduce our subjectivity - what I call 'I see, therefore it is.'

Markets work well with goods that economists call private goods.

Erich von Stroheim

Because I select my players from a feeling that comes to me when I am with them, a certain sympathy you might call it, or a vibration that exists between us that convinces me they are right.

Elliot Perlman

I can't really remember a time in my life when I didn't know something about what we call the Holocaust. It was this dark topic that I would know more about when I got older, but which was spoken about in hushed tones.

Emmylou Harris

Yes, I always say that we're a National League band. What I mean is, if you play an instrument, you have to sing. So I always call our drummer up. Even the drummer has to take a turn on the microphone.

Carla Gugino

When my friends have a health concern, they call me. I've always been a vitamin taker. I also take digestive enzymes and antioxidants, and supplements that help with the thyroid and adrenals for my time-zone changes.

Carl Paladino

I come from a democratic world. My world is moderate Democrats, Reagan-type Democrats if you want, the blues or whatever you call them, the Blue Dogs. That's been my world, historically.

Kathryn Lasky

In our community here in Boston, we have had a tremendous influx of Russian Jews and Haitians. We call these people immigrants. But they come for the same reasons that William Bradford and William Brewster and John Carver came.

When he is out there on the court he makes everyone around him better. He is consummate point guard in that way. A lot of it is the intangibles, like calling the right sets, getting guys in the right position and creating.

Tyra Banks

When I was a young girl, I lost a lot of weight over one summer - involuntarily - and was just really depressed and sad. There was nothing I could do to gain weight. I would look in the mirror and call myself disgusting every day.

We had a very difficult time finding many of the officers who worked on these cases to interview them or even call them up because there was no phone services.

When I had her as a teacher all of the kids in her class ended up calling her mom. She had this way of instilling the desire to learn in her students.

Madeleine Peyroux

When I got to Paris, it was a different world. French radio-another universe from U.S. radio. I found music that could sustain me. I found jazz and other music that I could call mine.

Dontrelle Willis

When I got the call telling me I had won, I was definitely floored and honored.

Kit Harington

When I'm applying for a new passport or something, someone will call me Christopher. Other than that, no one ever calls me Christopher.

When I come home I call somebody to come out and meet me.

Nick Saban

When I call up (Carolina coach) John Fox and tell him what we are going to do, then I'll let you guys know,

Doug Harvey

I was correct in every call I made, regardless of what managers, players or replay may have said. To me, that's the reason I'm in the Hall of Fame. If I didn't umpire with conviction, I wouldn't have made it for long.

Tucker Max

I always laugh when people call me a misogynist. I... love women! Everything I do is to impress women. And if I hated women, why would half my fans be women?

Tyra Banks

On 'America's Top Model,' I've always told my girls to smile with their eyes. We call it 'smizing.' Over the years, it's actually become part of pop culture. I would be walking down the street, and girls would say, 'Smize!'

Tyra Banks

With 'America's Next Top Model,' I've always cast girls who the industry might call 'plus size' but I like to call 'fiercely real.' That was always important to me.

Thomas Friedman

The more Israel sinks into the West Bank, the more it is delegitimized and isolated, the more the world focuses on Israel's colonialism rather than Iran's nuclear enrichment, the more people call for a single democratic state in all of historic Palestine.

We might find a large number of people in the rather ridiculous position of taking what we call pro-cholinergic medication to counteract anti-cholinergic drugs they are already taking.

We might call them schmaltzy, but it's poetry, and people are reading it or giving it as gifts.

Stephen Coonts

She said, 'You know they just might have read 'Under Siege' down there,' ... 'I don't want any phone calls from the State Department that you're locked in some jail cell down there.'