Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Beilein

We know that they're going to play good defense. We call it the New Jersey defense, the strong, tough defense. We knew that they were going to play that way.

Patrick Ness

How you leave the reader is so important - not the climax; I call it the 'exit feeling'.

John Harington

Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it treason

Hosni Mubarak

I am telling you that I am very grateful and am so proud of you for being a symbolic generation that is calling for change to the better, that is dreaming for a better future, and is making the future.

Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance.

Sandra Taylor

We got together this morning (Wednesday) at the hospital and Geanene Marshall, who has been very instrumental in getting the effort organized, suggested the Labor of Love idea. We started calling radio stations and other hospitals. We've tried to reach as many people as we could. We even faxed a copy to the North Carolina Nurses Association.

We got the perfect trap in the perfect situation, and they got bailed out. We haven't seen that call all year.

Henry Shelton

We get these calls every day. The companies have become much more hard-hearted.

We get really, really busy. Some of them call the very last day to get in.

We get a lot of phone calls about people having this or that for sale. We look at a lot of deals. We pass on 10 times the ones that we do. Some work for us, some don't.

Jon Anderson

We get a lot of calls at this time of the year when everyone is greasing their reels and tying flies wondering what lakes are being planted with trout.

Steve Mann

We get a lot of calls about why (a certain) film isn't playing. For the most part it's up to us, but there's a lot of exception to that. People don't understand that a lot of films we think would be successful in Brainerd, but it's not in the film distributors' marketing plan.

Kyle Orton

We came unglued a little bit, ... I tried to call some stuff out at the line and get the situation right.

We came out tonight with a little different mindset, to have some fun. We were either going to come out strong or call it a season. We weren't going to come out and give up another quick goal, and we came out and rang one up off the post within a minute. We came out strong and never let them in it.

We aren't desperate. We won't call it that. We know there's an urgency to win. ... It's not desperation - that's panic.

We are not putting pressure on others. We are calling for contributions.

Graydon Carter

What do you call an electorate that seems prone to acting out irrationally, is full of inchoate rage, and is constantly throwing fits and tantrums? You call it teenaged.

Al Davis

We've gotta run that football better, we've gotta run it tougher, and people have to understand that they're gonna get knocked. Not what we call zone blocking.

We've had calls from a few players in Florida, ... We tell them there has to be a lot of states to cross before you get to Washington.

Chuck D.

We've discussed it and we've gotten some phone calls and e-mails from residents supporting it.

Gottfried Leibniz

The ultimate reason of things must lie in a necessary substance, in which the differentiation of the changes only exists eminently as in their source; and this is what we call God.

Dmitry Medvedev

When I was a young student, I only listened to foreign music, mainly rock music and hard rock. Then I surprised myself by discovering ethnic music. Now I like to listen to music from different places, and in many situations. Even when you work, some ethnic music calms the nerves.

Donny Osmond

It's a natural phenomenon that when you hit as a little kid, as a teenybopper, we'll call it, everybody who used to like you back in that period of time grows up and they leave you back there.

Isabel Allende

Feminism is not dead, by no means. It has evolved. If you don't like the term, change it, for Goddess' sake. Call it Aphrodite, or Venus, or bimbo, or whatever you want; the name doesn't matter, as long as we understand what it is about, and we support it.

Isabel Allende

The longest, most solid and complex relationship in my life is with my mother. It started before I was born, and now, when I am 71 and living in California and she is 92 and living in Chile, we are still in touch daily.

Howard Rheingold

People look at me, and I dress a little unusually and they think, 'Oh you must be from California.' Of course, people in California think, 'Oh you must be from from Mars,' so, you know, your next-door neighbour is not necessarily the person that you are going to make a connection with.

Fred F. Fielding

I'm still friendly with Dean. He still calls me on the phone from time to time. John Dean was fired and later ended up spending some time in prison for his role in Watergate.

Barton Gellman

There is no reliable way to calculate from the number of recorded compliance issues how many Americans have had their communications improperly collected, stored or distributed by the NSA.

P. J. O'Rourke

Call a man 'ignorant,' and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.

We calmed down (on offense) and took what they gave us.

Bill Richardson

We call upon the military officers ... to restore the constitutional order and the democratically elected government.

Richard Boucher

We call upon the government to disavow the statements made by the military to ensure that elections are free and fair.

We call upon our Chinese leaders to give us democracy.