Famous Quotes & Sayings

We call the customer - some older lady or gentleman - and give them the number to call on the help desk of their health plan. The help desk is so overloaded the machine hangs up on them. They can't get any information and we can't get any information.

We call that 'united front tactics', that is also what we are trying to do.

Drew Carter

We call that a 'May-Day' coverage. Man down.

E. O. Wilson

We call that a jail break. The whole pack of turtles head for the water at once.

We call ourselves a punk rock band, but we really play stuff from before there was punk to after there was punk. We're more in the vein of what I would call anti-establishment rock 'n' roll.

Ismail Haniyeh

We call on you to understand the priorities of our Palestinian people at this stage and continue the spiritual and financial support in order to push the region towards stability rather than pressure and tension.

Harry Reid

We call on you to engage in meaningful consultation with us to identify a candidate for this crucial position who will unite the country, not divide it.

We call on those who have the power to take measures and to reduce the potential impact of climate change on our health.

Charles Schumer

We call on the White House to step up and do what is right for Americans everywhere and send a signal to OPEC that they can't keep their hands around our neck.

We call on the prime minister to go to parliament at once and take stock of the most severe crisis that Italy has ever had regarding its relations with Europe.

We call on the Palestinians to do all they can to end these attacks, ... and we will underscore this need with the Palestinian delegation that is coming next week.

James Foley

We call on the government of Iran to ensure no harm comes to these individuals and to release them.

Serge Schmemann

Like many a Yank before me, I have tried to explain to European friends that Americans actually know soccer quite well, that many of us played it in school and college, but that, well, we just don't find it quite as exciting as, say, what we call football.

Phillip Adams

We've been motivated this year. Everybody on our team expects to be good. Everybody expects to win every time we play. It won't be that hard to calm down and let everything work. We'll play until the final second.

We see kids all the time, and they are scared and sick. When children are scared and sick, it upsets their parents, too. We wanted to do something to help the child and to calm the parent.

We've been calling it Super Tuesday. I spent an hour (Monday) just talking to our kids. I just wanted to get a gauge for where they're at heading into the match.

Jay Wright

We need to get him on his feet and just get calories in him, because he's lost so much weight. I think this week will be really good for him. ... He has a chance of being 100 percent by Sunday.

We need to remove the fog of misinformation, hyperbole and emotions that have been the calling card of a vocal minority pushing the government to become more involved in television regulation.

Adam Beach

When I was growing up, my white friends would call me: 'Hey, Chief!' Even when I go to work now, people call me 'Chief.'

Alan Furst

I am there to entertain. I call my work high escape fiction; it's high, it's good - but it's escape, and I have no delusions about that. I have no ambition to be a serious writer, whatever that means.

E. O. Wilson

We are so used to weddings that we're ready for everything. The show shouldn't be any different - except for all the extra phone calls we're getting.

Michael Robinson

To think that people actually wanted him to give up the game, to call it quits -- I'm at a loss for words. He's a great coach.

To the person who left us a message at the Ponderosa last night, you gave us a telephone number. We do want to talk to you. Call us at the number you provided,

Johnny Carson

For three days after death, hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

Dada Vaswani

Call Him by whatever name you will, and He will respond.

Johnny Cash

People call me wild. Not really though, I'm not. I guess I've never been normal, not what you call Establishment. I'm country.

John Donne

Yet call not this long life; but think that I Am, by being dead, immortal; can ghosts die?

There are schools from all over northern California there, so it's very prestigious meet. They have a minimum qualifying requirement for each event, so it's not like you can enter just anyone.

Doug Jones

That's what I love about geeks, that they can call themselves a geek and be proud of it. I love that. I even have a necklace with the word 'geek' spelled out in rhinestones, and I'm very proud, myself.

Heidi Klum

I'm not someone who plays hard to get. This whole thing about 'Oh, let's exchange numbers' and then people wait four or five days before they call you? I don't see the point. If you feel something, why would you let that pass? You only live once.

Utah Phillips

When I was in Utah there, first learning the kind of music I love, my favorite singer was T. Texas Tyler. So my friend, Norman Ritchie, the traveling teenage sage, started calling me U. Utah Phillips.

Gene Robinson

And God is always calling me to open myself to all kinds of people that I've never thought about before and also calling me on this inward spiritual journey.

Emmy Rossum

I never walk into the studio and say, I'm going to write a song called... 'X' or called 'Slow Me Down.' I write a ton of lyrics, often the title is somewhere in those 10 pages of... I call it brain vomit. It's kind of like whatever comes out of my head and I'm unabashedly just writing it down.