Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abraham Lincoln

Calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg.

Jean Chatzky

Simply calling your credit card issuer and asking them to lower your interest rate may yield immediate savings.

Prince Charles

She had also been thinking of getting a dog and calling it Camilla Two.

She called me all the time. She just called to talk. She never missed calling me for any occasion. We were very close.

Since UB313 is decidedly larger than Pluto, it is now increasingly hard to justify calling Pluto a planet if UB313 is not also given this status.

Since UB 313 is decidedly larger than Pluto, it is now increasingly hard to justify calling Pluto a planet if UB 313 is not also given this status.

Sitting back and worrying isn't going to help anything. What we have to do is trust the people calling these shots to understand these players have six-month seasons in front of them.

Since Liberty joined forces with Cell Phones for Soldiers in late 2004, our offices have collected over 42,000 phones providing 4.2 million minutes of calling time. The need continues, and this is a year-round project for us.

She kept changing her mind, so the employee at the window told her to hold on, she was calling the manager. I think she was intoxicated or something.

David Conrad

She just took them at their word, ... She knew I was calling around looking for service.

We have a signed contract. We're prohibited from picketing or calling a boycott.

We have a once-in-a- generation opportunity to do this. We're calling on today's students to make their contribution to the future of this university.

There are two things you don't want to get -- a letter from the IRS and a letter from the draft board. They're not calling up to say hello,

Hank Aaron

Leo, if I'm not calling you, everything's fine. If I'm calling you all the time, something isn't right.

E. O. Wilson

Last year this time we were on the other side, just hoping and praying that somehow they would stick us in there. It makes the day a lot more fun, knowing they will be calling our name sometime.

Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) told Trent Lott (R-MS), and told my son this voluntarily, We're going to confirm your dad by December. The groups said, No, not so fast; so they were calling the shots, they were calling the tempo,

She told me he would not leave her alone. He wouldn't take no for an answer. He kept driving by her house and calling her cell phone.

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.

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.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

From deep in the slave hut is somebody calling over 150 years to all of our experiences and all of our ideas on human respect, and all of our ideas on dignity. And I felt like that's just incredibly powerful.

Dennis Crowley

I can think of the number of people who were like, 'I will never get a cellphone because I don't want people calling me all the time. And I will never get on Facebook because I don't want to share that stuff with people. And Twitter, that's not for me.' And this is just the natural progression of things.

Naveen Jain

Philanthropy is not about giving money but about solving problems. While well-meaning, the idea of writing a check and calling it 'philanthropy' is extremely short-sighted and unfortunately, extremely pervasive.

Desi Arnaz

I had started calling her Lucy shortly after we met; I didn't like the name Lucille. That's how our television show was called I Love Lucy, not Lucille.

Anthony Bourdain

Since the very beginning, Emeril's had a sense of humor about me calling him names and poking fun at him.

Shari Sebbens

'Gods of Wheat Street' has been described as an Aboriginal 'Neighbours' or 'Home and Away.' But on set, we were calling it 'Black to the Rafters.'

Laverne Cox

What took time for my mom was getting the pronouns right and calling me by a different name. Laverne was my middle name before I transitioned.

Charles Hazlewood

In America, they have this nauseating habit of calling the conductor 'maestro'. I always slightly gag when the cor anglais player goes, 'Maestro, can I discuss bar 19 with you?'

Carly Fiorina

The highest calling of leadership is to challenge the status quo and unlock the potential of others. We need a leader who will lead the resurgence of this great nation and unlock its potential once again.

Erwin McManus

I think we've overstated that God is the God who wants us to obey. Obedience is not the end game. Obedience is only our calling so that we can step into our freedom.

Lisa Presley

When they divorced, I would go out on the road more and miss more school, which I liked. People say I didn't get to see him very much, but I was with him quite a bit. All of a sudden, a car would show up at school, and he was calling for me to go out on the road.