Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Connolly

: ''My name is John Connolly and if you give me one of your four, I promise to stop calling and knocking on your door.

Rose George

My mother watched her loving husband look at her with blankness or contempt and sometimes hatred. And yet dementia is classed as a social condition, so that the state is not required to pay for long-term residential care. Calling it what it is - brain damage - is too expensive.

My wife makes fun of me by calling me a grandpa because I have very little patience for inconsiderate children. So if we're walking in the mall, and some kid goes by really fast on a skateboard, I become the grumpiest eighty-five-year-old man in the world and start screaming at them.

My wife loves the area. I love the guys on the team. We've gotten pretty comfortable calling it home.

My phone certainly is ringing much more often these days with companies calling about corporate responsibility. Companies are very eager for an institution to certify compliance with the standards of corporate responsibility.

Jack Nicholson

My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch.

Trent Edwards

Mark and I have been clicking the last couple of games, ... To lose a guy like that, my go-to guy, made it pretty hard on offense, especially for coach Harris calling plays.

Cory Booker

We become distracted from productive labors by our perceived opponents; we become focused on them and not on our larger calling to advance our nation; our debate becomes more about scoring points against an adversary and less about advancing our common cause.

Cory Doctorow

Put simply, I want to treat my readers as partners and not crooks. There is no future in calling your most active promoters crooks.

The fact that they're calling a hearing in the midst of their other priorities indicates the chairman's commitment to moving immigration reform as quickly as possible.

Will you stop calling it the short stack?

We were looking for a guy in the third pairing that can be safe, solid and steady. That's Cory's calling card.

Juan Williams

When it comes to serious cuts to major programs like Medicaid, the American people are not calling for leadership but magic. They want cuts with no pain.

Federico Fellini

What is an artist? A provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one.... Its this in-between that Im calling a province, this frontier country between the tangible world and the intangible onewhich is really the realm of the artist.

To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe. You cannot hire a wise man or any other intellect to solve it for you. There's no writ of inquest or calling of witness to provide answers.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Asa Gray

I am sufficiently convinced already that the members of a profession know their own calling better than anyone else can know it.

Kofi Annan

There are no excuses, ... If we are to show ourselves worthy of calling ourselves members of humankind, we must rise to this challenge. Our response will be no less than a measure of our humanity.

We really feel pretty strongly about that. Where we are with the standard, we just don't think it's right to be calling products pre-n or Draft 1.0 compliant.

We're a different entity coming in from the outside, and we have to put our resources where our moth is and show parents we can do a better job. Displaced parents were able to see what a better school system looks like, and they are now calling us and demanding that we provide the same, if not better. And we agree.

We hope to have at least 50 kids, somewhere between 50 and 75. The people calling are very excited, very positive about what we did last year.

Paul Anderson

We have quite a few styles that perform more than one function to fulfill small- or limited-space needs. Most of Ikea's furniture is designed around the European market, which is calling out for smaller-scale items.

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

We always have Latin teachers calling about it, but we can't draw any conclusions.

David Sedaris

I felt uncomfortable calling myself a writer until I started with 'The New Yorker,' and then I was like, 'Okay, now you can call yourself that.

Chris Bohjalian

The honest answer is more complex. On some level I was sent. Or inspired. Or called. But my calling, such as it was, wasn't a single booming invitation from above (really, is it ever?)...

Chaim Weizmann

Einstein ... always spoke to me of Rutherford in the highest terms, calling him a second Newton.

Charles Simeon

Our calling is not primarily to be holy women, but to work for God and for others with Him.