Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Ebonics - or black English, as I prefer to call it - is one of a great many dialects of English. And so English comes in a great many varieties, and black English is one of them.

Louis MacNeice

Some day I shall write a novel and call it 'A Walking Tour in the Congo' or 'Thrills and Spills in Aeronautics'; but I keep this type of title as a last & mercenary resort.

Katherine Parkinson

I'm going to get myself one of those, um, movable computers - what do you call them... ? Laptops! I am bad. I still call my radio a wireless.

Kage Baker

Back when the concept of organ transplants qualified as science fiction, novelist Maurice Renard wrote a thriller called 'Les Mains d'Orlac.' Call it a bastard offspring of 'Frankenstein;' its plot revolved around the old theme of Science Giving Us Stuff We Shouldn't Have - in this particular case, restoring severed body parts.

Kara Swisher

Unlike the messier MySpace, Facebook has a cleaner and easier-to-customize interface and is much more, as Zuckerberg once described it to me, 'utilitarian.' I would call it useful and more relevant than other competitors, and a white-label version would likely be a hit.

We are not calling for an inquiry at this point in time.

We are not calling for a blockade, but if oil companies decide they cannot send out lorries while there is a public presence at their site, then that is a matter for them.

We are here to serve the people of Vernon County. We respond to an emergency call immediately and a crew is called to come in as backup. We don't wait because taking that call is our primary purpose. A transfer is different, it takes us out of our area.

We did not disclose all the information that we could have and that is the fundamental difference now. We fully publish all our characterized errata and we don't try to make any judgment calls on what the impact is to the end user. That's for them to decide.

Dick Vermeil

We did know he started getting what we call 'burners' once in a while - a tingling in his fingers from some hits - which are very, very common,

We did get off to a slow start. I think we got stronger as the season went on. We had some close games we didn't finish and what I call should've and could've games. It was just the little things we didn't take care of.

We'd have 50 or 60 calls each day from all counties and other states,

We desperately need people. They can call here, or go to our Web site and click on mentoring and they can even download an application.

We desperately need people. They can call here, go to our Web site and click on mentoring and they can even download an application.

John Key

I was really fascinated by politics. It always has been part of my view that politics really is a calling or you wouldn't go into it, because it's demanding and potentially has a toll on you and your family.

Jennifer Grant

When I knew I was pregnant four years ago with a boy, a friend suggested I call him Cary, but I initially resisted. There was only one Cary Grant. But a week before he was due, I started thinking it would be wonderful to pass the name on to him. And anyway, my father wasn't Cary to me. He was Dad.

For me, not owning a car means I may spend a little extra time on public transportation, but I can use that time to read, catch up on work projects, and make the phone calls I couldn't get to earlier. Plus, I never waste time at the mechanics or gas station.

What we're doing is focusing on trying to resolve the issues, trying to resolve what we call freedom of travel disputes that involve U.S. citizens in Saudi Arabia. And we're going to keep up that effort.

There is no doubt. Next year there will be an influx of calls to us demanding petitions.

When in doubt, throw it out. I seriously stress that when people call me.

Jerry Saltz

When I criticize Joseph Beuys or Francis Bacon, nobody calls those opinions anti-male. Putting female artists or their subject matter off-limits is itself sexist and limiting.

Armando Iannucci

When I'm making something, I've always felt in charge and therefore able to call the shots. But what you've got to do is stop that turning into arrogance or despotism!

Daren Kagasoff

When I meet a girl I like, I call her the next day. I don't play that three-day rule. Maybe that's psycho. But I usually feel like I should have called her that night!

When it was first installed, you could hear the calling of long-tailed ducks in the background.

We use to call on a customer and engineering was in one part of the building, purchasing in another and manufacturing in another. With one visit we could talk to all of them.

The people in Park City seem to have what I call Midwestern values - they are warm; they are very welcoming.

Scott Fujita

I think for far too long there was this perception, or I guess I would call it a misperception, that our locker rooms in the NFL are extremely homophobic, and that could not be further from the truth.

Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my countrymen comes natural to me; and in the open field of invention I am not without hopes of giving them pleasure.

Tom Lehman

I had played in a tournament with the captain of the University of Minnesota's golf team, and he thought I was good. He called his coach, and the coach called me and recruited me. A five-minute phone call changed my life.

Thomas Perez

I like to call the Department of Labor the Department of Opportunity, and that means opportunity for everyone - no matter whom you love.