Famous Quotes & Sayings

Cindy Mannes

I would not say it's an epidemic by any stretch, but it is a problem. We used to get one or two calls a year ... Now we're getting one or two calls a week.

Norv Turner

keep coaching it. We had a couple of calls that were real close in terms of the 5-yard (chuck) rule. It's right at 41/2 or 5 yards. We just have to understand it is going to be called right close there, and if you are in a collision with a guy, you've got to get off him.

Michael Penn

I suspect the gospel of Judas was not one of the close calls in this process.

Gerhard Richter

A father draws boundaries and calls a halt, whenever necessary. As I didn't have that, I was able to stay childishly naive that much longer - so I did what I liked, because there was nobody stopping me, even when I got it wrong.

Ben Beakes

Having said that, she is leaving all doors open. She has received many calls in support prior to the congresswoman making her decision.

Sylvia Hatchell

Her excitement and enthusiasm and passion for the game, it makes people smile. I can't tell you the number of letters and e-mails and phone calls we have gotten from people that have just said how she brightens their day. ... I feel like the way we play and having a player like Ivory sells the game of basketball.

Chris Villarrial

I think it's big, ... The communication is there, we don't have to make as many calls at the line. We can pretty much look at each other and know what's going on.

Jim Hawkins

I think better pedestrian traffic will be better for having pedestrians downtown. And, the long range plan calls for that. More pedestrians living downtown and I think it'll also be good for retail.

Alan Greenspan

I have gotten calls from a number of senior high-tech executives who are telling me that the market is dissolving rapidly before their eyes. But I suspect that a not inconceivable possibility is that what is dissolving in front of their eyes is their own personal net worth!

Shia LaBeouf

Knowledge about the economy, ideas about capitalism and government, the future of the world and geopolitics were things I was never really interested in.

Chris McCarron

I think it's a golden opportunity for someone who wants to become a race rider to capitalize on by getting an education from a group of people who have been there, done it a long time and are not trying to pull the wool over their eyes so to speak.

George Packer

Whether as victim, demon, or hero, the industrial worker of the past century filled the public imagination in books, movies, news stories, and even popular songs, putting a grimy human face on capitalism while dramatizing the social changes and conflicts it brought.

Jack Lord

What you have, what you are - your looks, your personality, your way of thinking - is unique. No one in the world is like you. So capitalize on it.

Tom Evans

I thought we've been playing great soccer. They were able to capitalize on our mistakes.

Mark Gordon

I think the public has always been fascinated by crime. Crime in American fiction dates from the 20s, 30s and 40s in potboiler novels and film noir, not to mention tabloid journalism. In the past few years, TV just figured out a way to capitalize on that in a different manner.

Jack Kemp

Laissez-faire, Darwinian capitalism is not going to work here. Markets do work, but they need the direction of government in situations like this.

Joachim Hunold

We are floating the company because we want to capitalize on our market opportunities.

Tracey Morrill

I thought we played a good game. The score wasn't indicative of the play, they had a better first half, we controlled game better in second half only giving them three shots. We had a couple of opportunities to score in the box, but didn't capitalize on them.

Peter Carlisle

He could be very cordial and charming when he was cooperating with you, and there were other times he could be reptilian as to how cold he was.

Peter Sarnak

He is very charming and not arrogant. I think he will find himself having a tremendous number of graduate students because he has kind of a magnetic personality.

James Woods

Hold on a second, I got a hand here... you don't mind if I play while we talk? It's part of the charm of this entire event.

Allen Wallace

I think that's part of the charm of recruiting. You can never get enough great players. It's just another way to inflict injury on your rivals. That's why recruiting is so important to some people. You're winning two times. You're getting a player and you're taking him away from somebody else.

Rob Moore

He is a very likeable, charming billionaire. He's just your average, very successful, humble businessman.

Sarah Dessen

Impulsiveness can be charming but deliberation can have an appeal, as well.

William Makepeace Thackeray

What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!

Brian Harrigan

Our lucky day didn't work out so well last time. They had their own lucky charm.

James Howard Kunstler

In short, chronological connectivity puts us in touch with the holy. It is at once humbling and exhilarating. I say this as someone who has never followed any formal religious practice. Connection with the past and the future is a pathway that charms us in the direction of sanity and grace.

Chris DiMarco

I would take 10-under and go home and see how it does.

Julie Buchanan

Kathy told me she honestly thought they'd be home in three days, so they didn't pack a lot.

Adam Braidwood

I take a lot of responsibility for it. I'm going to go home and look in the mirror. I don't think, my last two games, I've played up to my potential.

S. Walker

I actually had to do my homework to pass the time. It was horrible.

Vicki Bosley

He was a hometown hero, and Lorraine made sure everyone knew it.

Mark Baron

He wants match play, it's his hometown and it works for him.

Melinda Hyder

He wanted his cigarettes, his son - he told us he made enough money and didn't need it. He made us all promise we were going to vote for him. (She did.) I really think that he had planned on going home all day, but he was part of a four-person alliance, and they talked him into staying.

John Milton

He unobserved / Home to his mother's house private returned.

Harry Smith

He did not know it was coming. He's distraught. He had a whole plan to go home and resume a life with his family.

Barbara Castle

I think we're going to get a lot of unrest showing itself in all sorts of demonstrations, and you never quite know what would come out of it.

Chris Byrne

I think this will really help. Look at what Target has done in establishing itself as a resource for consumers. Toys R Us is struggling to become a destination for toys so it makes perfect sense.

Dave Thomas

It is important to us that it had proven itself in the FRC market.

Rob McClure

I was a bit of a goofball. I was always silly. I think that lends itself to being an actor.

Joseph Campbell

If you realize what the real problem is - losing yourself - you realize that this itself is the ultimate trial.

Michael Leunig

If you know anything about ducks, you know a baby duck will imprint itself on you. It misses its mother.

Terry Teachout

Instrumental music is nonverbal and thus radically ambiguous. It doesn't lend itself to what might be called content-oriented analysis, though plenty of intellectuals have tried to analyze it in precisely that way.

John Lewandowski

In our mind, we said, 'Let the legal process work itself out,' and that's until the sentencing stage.

John Thornton

I know the perception is that we're struggling and Pittsburgh is peaking. That's where the underdog role comes from. But I don't think this team sees itself as an underdog.

Bradlee Pelt

Jake knows that he's not John Elway, and I don't think he wants to be. He's Jake Plummer.

Philip Purcell

John and I have never disagreed about the businesses.

John Gartland

John always has a vision, with great, broad-stroked kinds of goals.

Susanne Bier

John le Carre's 'The Night Manager' is a relentlessly exhilarating thriller with profound emotional depths.

Douglas Brinkley

John Kerry only went to prep schools because he had an aunt who had the money to pay for his way into those prep schools.

John Edward

John Kerry has what it takes ... to be president of the United States,

Michael Meehan

John Kerry has a record in the military that he's running on, not from. Everything the U.S. Navy sent to Sen. Kerry, we'll post on the Web site.

Nicholas Burns

John is working very hard, hand-in-glove with Washington on this.

Pete Carroll

John is talking to everybody, all the time. That's the way he handles his business. He's got a marvelous spirit.

Richard Dawkins

Religion is the root of quite a lot of evil.

Richard Dawkins

Religion is not the root of all evil, for no one thing is the root of all anything.

Romeo Santos

I want to try different things but, most importantly, always be true to my roots and keep it organic. I'm never going to leave bachata behind. I'm always going to be a bachatero first.

Willie Dixon

The blues is the roots, the rest is the fruits.

Tullian Tchividjian

What is indisputable is the fact that unbelief is the force that gives birth to all of our bad behavior and every moral failure. It is the root.

Sara Gruen

Is where you're from the place you're leaving or where you have roots?

Vivian Stanshall

Fear is the root of all courage

Vincent Van Gogh

Drawing is the root of everything.

Will Oldham

Too much emphasis is put on American roots music when people try and place me. You know, I grew up listening to punk.