Famous Quotes & Sayings

In the big leagues you can just call up somebody to put in there. In Triple-A we're pretty much on our own. We've just got to figure it out because we're not going to get any help.

In that situation, you just have to really focus more. And I think most hitters are looking for a fastball there. After he swung at the first curve, I just kept calling for it and it worked out.

In the back of my mind I said why call a bluff. Let's do everything we can to sign him and we did.

Jeb Bush

I really call this a win for the people of Florida,

Shohreh Aghdashloo

Iranians call California and Iran 'sister cities;' they're very much alike. Iranians feel at home here and the weather is so close to Iranian weather.

I ran his plays this week, calling them by numbers, to make it easy for our defense. What I couldn't duplicate was the speed he's got over there.

James Jones

I ran around the back and was calling for my daddy-in-law. Then I tried to see if I could get him out through the front, but I couldn't do nothing because there was too much smoke. I was scared. He was still trapped in there.

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John Hanson

If you talk to WWII vets, they will tell you there were thousands of USO operations where communities did that. The USO was there to keep the troops happy and calmed down before they deployed.

If you set off a slide you won't be arrested. Call it in to non-emergency dispatch, that way resources aren't wasted.

Hugh Johnson

If you separate out all the sectors of the market, it's no longer the case that technology is the most overvalued sector of the market, health care and energy actually carry higher valuations than technology now. So we are starting to get the levels overall in technology that really make some sense. And interestingly enough, if you take it even further, if you go to the individual stocks, stocks like Sun, Cisco, Texas Instruments, Oracle -- great names, they're starting to get to levels which, again, don't call them cheap, but call them cheaper and interesting,

Charles Dickens

If your governor don't prove a alleybi, he'll be what the Italians call reg'larly flummoxed

Martha Beck

If you're totally sedentary and eat 2,500 calories a day, don't instantly go to 1,200 calories and hours of aerobics - your weight loss will be sudden and violent, but also fleeting.

Sibel Kekilli

If you move to Canada, after a few years you call yourself Canadian. In Germany, it's difficult to belong.

David Burnett

If you want a reflective sign that will be visible day or night, call us,

Stephen Levine

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Wally Buono

If you want to win, you make calls like that. If you worry about the consequences, you keep on losing.

If you write something that allows somebody to copy stuff later on, you could be jailed. This is a wake-up call for programmers.

Caitlyn Jenner

If you want to call me names, make jokes and doubt my intentions, go ahead, because the reality is I can take it.

Paul Davis

If you want to call it a must-win, that's what it is.

Bob Costas

I get a call that says 'Michelle Kwan has withdrawn from the Olympics' and at that point I was thinking 'Wait, what Olympics am I at? Lillehammer? Sarajevo?' and the next thing I know, 45 minutes later I'm interviewing Michelle.

Paul Tsongas

In my time it was the Kennedy call to public service in the Third World. Had there been no Peace Corps, my life would have been radically different.

In my life as an artist, I follow what I call my 'inner directive' because you can never predict what the world is going to do. You can never predict how people are going to respond to what you do. What I have to do is just trust what's sending me down a road of creative inquiry is important to me and somehow that will make it into a piece of work that is important to others.

Maria Semple

I never understood the concept of a fluffy summer read. For me, summer reading means beaches, long train rides and layovers in foreign airports. All of which call for escaping into really long books.

Edward Hirsch

In every culture, in every language, there is expressive play, expressive word play; there's language use to different purposes that we would call poetry.

In 2006 we'll have a lot of players coming up from (Class A Advanced) San Jose, where they won the California League Championship. If they can do that here it would be the icing on the cake.

In 2005, I was the first member of Congress to introduce legislation calling for an immediate withdrawal of our troops from Iraq.

David Myers

In 2004, with many hurricanes in Florida, I think we weren't quite prepared for the volume of calls we received, especially from customers in need of temporary call center facilities.

Kirk Talley

In 2003 the blackmail started. He started calling me and first said he was a private investigator. I quickly saw that he wasn't, that it was just a scheme to get money out of me. So, I went to the authorities and got them involved because I knew if I paid him, he'd be back in a month. I knew I wasn't going to do that the rest of my life.

In 30 seconds, we went from getting ready to call the MPs to everyone shaking hands.

I had a woman call me this morning in tears because her daughter was named Katrina, ... and she was traumatized practically to the point where she wouldn't go out of the house.

I had conference calls with the crew every morning, ... I mean, our jobs are high risk, always, but after seeing all the Hurricane Katrina footage, well, it can make you worry.

Aaron Rowand

I guess you could use the words 'Steady Eddie.' He doesn't get too high or low. He's got a real calm demeanor to him. Pressure or no pressure, he gets the job done.