Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pete Rostosky

(Randy) knows it starts with his offensive line. He made great calls thanks to the line. Mt. Pleasant started blitzing and they were able to pick it up and let Randy make plays.

Georgine Getty

Our shelters are always putting out calls for sheets and towels.

Mike Silverman

Other editors said they get calls from readers who are hearing stories from returning troops of the good things they have accomplished while there, and readers find that at odds with the generally gloomy portrayal in the papers of what's going on in Iraq.

Paul FitzPatrick

People return your phone calls and your e-mails, and they speak to you and speak to you nicely.

Dan Tredinnick

People plan their marriages around it. The calls start coming in around the first of the year from people wanting to make plans. I've had brides-to-be tell me that that's why they're asking, because they don't want to plan their wedding the same weekend as the opener. And that's not something that's just happened once. It happens often enough every year that it sticks with you.

Wallace Davis

Offensive line, period, it's just the position that has so many plays, so many different calls you have to make, ... I really didn't think that it was gonna come as quick as it came or I was gonna get the opportunity I got. But I always was prepared for what was gonna happen.

Monty Hall

Of course when I got to be a star on ""Let's Make a Deal,"" I started getting 20 calls a week. I would respond. My fee was zero. They liked my fee and they liked the job I did and I raised, in the last 50 years, I raised $800 million. And it's been a great ride.

George Braun

(North Branford) played well. They're physical inside and we were looking for calls that we weren't going to get instead of just playing hard.

Rob Douglas

Companies value customer service over security. The emphasis in training is always on satisfaction of the customer, push more products and move the calls as quickly as possible.

Adlai Stevenson

An editor is one who separates the wheat from the chaff and prints the chaff.

Bill Walsh

We were only able to reach editors intermittently. Some we didn't even know where they were or whether they were all right.

Alex Ebert

Unless you are in the willingness and ease and ecstasy of some kind of moment, you may end up the editor of your thoughts and of your expressions. I find I'm that way on stage.

Donald Davis

Anyone who edits their own copy has a fool for an editor.

Anthony Edwards

I was spoiled by theater, where there is no editor.

D. B. Sweeney

I've seen people who stink, but the film editor shows them just where they didn't stink. But if you're empty and manipulative on stage, it's clear.

David Zinczenko

I'm totally against the idea of a celebrity editor.

Anthony Hopkins

Jonathan Demme is a very sharp editor of his movies.

Amanda Hocking

I want to be a writer. I do not want to spend 40 hours a week handling e-mails, formatting covers, finding editors, etc.

Tori Kelly

When I'm on stage, I generally wear what I would wear every other day, but I think my hair is probably bigger on stage - it seems to be my accessory!

Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

Here in Davos, it is generally assumed that there is now only one god - the market.

Michael Williams

At the end of the day, what happened in the first 72 hours is going to be generally overshadowed by what happens in the next 12 to 24 months,

Doug Smith

Wolf populations can generally take a 30 percent mortality rate and stay stable. If this is one year, there's nothing to worry about. If it comes to successive years, we could have a problem.

Chris Dailey

She was very much a small-town girl. I always knew that she'd be successful and happy in her life because she's generally a happy person, someone who always looks at things in a positive way. She's great with people. I'm not surprised at all that she's back home.

Michael Dixon

Most all of them are pretty much word-for-word the same. Most every impact statement is negative. Generally that's what they are because people talk about how much the resources pull away.

Greg Cohen

New projects will generally have more support (for tolls). There's such a shortage of regular tax funds.

Charles Golvin

Generally speaking, browsing on your mobile phone is a lousy experience.

John Updike

My interest generally is the hidden Americans; the ones who live far away from the headlines.

Clare Short

I am very gloomy about the Middle East.

Karl Philipp Moritz

On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.

Harry Browne

A show's a show, and this is for a good cause.

Erica White

As good as this feels, we're not done yet.

Chris Nelson

As good as (Southern Nevada) is, to come in and win in their park, that's a good thing for Derek.

Robert Esche

As good as it may have seemed, we still lost the game. So, it wasn't that great.

Jay Bilas

As good as I thought they were going to be, and I thought they would be in the NCAA tournament, I didn't think they were going to be this good. I didn't think they were going to be this mature, this polished and this resilient.

Brad Skoglund

As good as catch, maybe better, than the one at state.

Louie Golden

As good a player as he is, he's so unselfish. He makes teams go. He makes it happen.

Jessica Springsteen

As for singing, my parents say I have a good voice, but then again, they have to say that.

Rocky Carroll

As an actor, you can think your way out of a lot of good things sometimes. I trust my instincts as an actor, and I trust the instincts of the creators, so it's a good combination.

Eddie Van Halen

I have selective hearing.

Kelly DeFeciani

Dr. Robinson invited everyone here so we are all hearing and saying the same thing.

Jan LaRue

We do not think there is anything she could say at her hearing that would satisfy our concerns.

Edward Kitsis

At the time it was airing, Claire had been kidnapped. So instead of hearing her husband was a little nervous, she just went, 'So Claire comes back? You just ruined it for me!' To this day, my wife refuses to hear anything about 'Lost.' She just wants to watch it.

Brad Richards

We all know what to do. We've all been together long enough to know what to do and what makes the power play work. We're just not doing it. It's the obvious thing and I'm sick of it. We're all sick of hearing it.

Mike Crosby

This was when we had the hearing on their operating permit some time ago.

Keith Jennings

Those two sophomores have stepped up since last year. By the time these two are seniors, you'll be hearing about them.

Colin Campbell

We're going to be hearing it from players and coaches,

Frank Quilici

You get a little too sentimental and you end up crying. Seeing the guys, hearing what they're doing, meeting their wives and family. It was neat. This is really wonderful.

Jim Macaluso

It would be tough for Vegas to put odds on this thing.

Charles Bukowski

I was glad I wasn't in love, that I wasn't happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything. People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective. They lose their sense of humor. They become nervous, psychotic bores. They even become killers.

Robert Kiyosaki

Most people want to be rich but they do not want to pay the price, in fact there are ways of becoming rich in which the odds are in the person's favor

Anne Rice

Don't you see? I'm not the spirit of any age. I'm at odds with everything and always have been! I have never belonged anywhere with anyone at any time!

Robert Greene

No one is really going to help you or give you direction. In fact, the odds are against you.

Richard Linklater

As we know from our government, the more power you have, the more of a bureaucrat you are, and the more ego you have invested in being right, the greater the odds are that you will never change your opinion.

Swami Vivekananda

Sincerity of conviction and purity of motive will surely gain the day; and even a small minority, armed with these, is surely destined to prevail against all odds.

Ronald Fisher

If one in twenty does not seem high enough odds, we may, if we prefer it, draw the line at one in fifty (the 2 per cent. point), or one in a hundred (the 1 per cent. point). Personally, the writer prefers to set a low standard of significance at the 5 per cent. point, and ignore entirely all results which fail to reach this level. A scientific fact should be regarded as experimentally established only if a properly designed experiment rarely fails to give this level of significance.

Suzanne Collins

One slip. One slip in thousands. The odds had been entirely in her favor. But it hadn't mattered.

David Davies

If he took the papers in... that, I'm afraid, is a very unwise thing for him to do and I do think this is a resigning issue.

Christina Baker Kline

I think a lot of readers are looking for a book they can talk about.

Amy Bloom

I find my readers to be very smart, and there is no reason to write dumb.

Dionne Bromfield

The papers are only going to show what they want the readers to see. It's all propaganda, to be honest.

Jason Katims

Any show I'm working on, I want the stories to always be about something, and to have the potential to be emotional. That's the kind of story that I like.

Brett Ratner

I'm not tied to budgets. I'm tied to the story that I want to tell, and how much it's going to cost is up to whatever the economic situation of the studio is.

Brad Meltzer

Stories aren't the beauty of what did happen. They're the beauty of what could happen.

Jane Campion

When I read Andrew Motion's biography, I wept. It's something about the purity of the story and how fresh it was because of the love letters Keats wrote.

C. S. Lewis

The birth of Christ is the central event in the history of the earth-- the very thing the whole story has been about.

Burt Reynolds

All you really have in the end are your stories.

Alan Dean Foster

How much research I have to do depends on the nature of the story. For fantasy, none at all.

Charles Colson

The first 20 stories written about a public figure set the tone for the next 2,000 and it is almost impossible to reverse it.

Bela Lugosi

I'll take any story if it's good.

Diane Ravitch

You can't lead your troops if your troops do not trust you.