Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ron Wilson

Hey, they're calling penalties as advertised. Everyone's still shocked, 'Why are they calling penalties in the playoffs?' They're supposed to because they want to work, and Gary Bettman was here so, hello! I mean it doesn't take a rocket scientist or even a sportswriter to figure that one out.

Anthony Davis

He's sitting so great at that university. What's he's done with that program is unprecedented. If he ever calls on me, I'm there. He's a diamond, I'll tell you.

He's so experienced and the guys on the team feed off of him and what he does. He's a calming force in the middle of the field. He's pleaded with me all preseason to play forward, but we need him in the middle.

He's so confident in what he knows. He now has better than 20 games under his belt. You can't put a price on that, can't measure that experience. He's seen it. He's reacted to it. He's not surprised by it. That's a real calming element in the offense.

Darryl Sydor

He's so calm back there. He jokes back there and just relaxes everybody.

He still calls me and I know his listening to what we've been doing.

Jeff Carter

He's such a great player on the ice, but having him in the locker room he just calms things down. We don't worry too much.

James Carafano

He's stuck it out when lesser men would walk away. I don't care what you call that, hubris or whatever. I truthfully think just changing the captain on the ship wouldn't have made any difference. If anything, it may have slowed things down because at least that captain knows the mistakes he made.

The last couple of weekends, we haven't executed well. It's amazing. It's in our seniors. I don't mind calling them out because I think they'll be there in the end. If we're going to make a run, we need those seniors.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The last calendar year that Exxon Mobil was the top-performing stock in the peer group was 1998, when crude oil, natural gas and refining margins all declined vs. the previous year.

Brian Bilbray

The intelligence community isn't eavesdropping on your telephone calls to hear about our personal lives. They're listening for someone's plan to instigate grave and massive devastation to our country.

Edward Jenner

The joy I felt as the prospect before me of being the instrument destined to take away from the world one of its greatest calamities (smallpox) was so excessive that I found myself in a kind of reverie

The larger, the more far-flung, and the more diverse a person's network, the more important e-mail is. You can't make phone calls or personal visits to all your friends very often, but you can 'cc' them regularly with a couple of keystrokes. That turns out to be very important.

Frank Murkowski

The last thing California needs is more power plants.

C. S. Lewis

What I call my 'self' now is hardly a person at all. It's mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God.

The message that would send is tantamount to a clarion call to this dangerous migration. The good men and women of the Coast Guard have enough on their plate.

The metro camp is trying very hard to commemorate Rabin and do as many things as possible to mention his name, call new places and streets by his name, and preach his legacy. The retro are trying to negate all that. They're saying it's a not a trauma at all.

Tony Blankley

The mighty American media doesn't want to think itself spineless. So they close their eyes, rationalize their fear and call it the responsible thing to do.

Their shots were close. When we calmed down and started going to our height, we were OK.

The irony of the pot calling the kettle black. Where's the pun in that?

The international community calls on us to complete the electoral process within 12 months at the latest. I hope those elections will take place before the 12 months (expire), and that is the mission I shall give to the prime minister we will appoint in a few days,

Fabian Nunez

Their goal is that we have a very, very low turnout so that a very small minority of California voters decide the outcome of this election,

Their goalie was good, he made some nice stops. Was his performance spectacular? I wouldn't call it that, I think sometimes we made his job easy.

The instructions to the referees . . . are identical to that of the regular season. We just want them to go out there and call the game the way they called it in the regular season.

The institute's hand should not tremble in calling the president's attention, in giving him a yellow (penalty) card.

It's not about me - four simple words that described the life of Christ. Do you call yourself a Christian? Well then, you're not off the hook. You don't get to claim 'Me, myself, and I' as your four words. 'It's not about me' should describe your life as well.

Michael K. Powell

You can sell nothing for a mark-up for a while, but only until something starts eating away at it. Now I can go home and click on Yahoo, call my sister and talk over a microphone for free.

Every audition, I walk out the door and throw the sides away immediately. You did it, now go home. And to me, that's kind of a baptism. If they call you, they call you. And if they don't, it's fine.

Mayer Hawthorne

Man, I have so many names that everybody calls me something different. Some people call me Drew, some people call me Mayer, some people call me Haircut.

Phyllis Logan

When somebody's calling you 'Mommy,' it's a wonderful thing. But also to have that responsibility and to know that you and your partner have this little thing that's totally relying on you - and it made me, I suppose, less selfish. Not that I was mega-selfish to start with, but it's lovely having that responsibility. It's scary.

John Bradshaw

The unlimited power that many modern gurus offer is false hope. Their programs calling us to unlimited power have made them rich, not us. They touch our false selves and tap our toxic shame.

Chuck Palahniuk

I used to work as a volunteer in a hospice, but I don't have any nursing skills or cooking skills or anything, so I was what they call an escort. I would take people to the support groups every night, and I would have to sit sort of on the sidelines so I could take them back to hospice at the end of the meeting.

David Bowie

My son's full real name is Duncan Zowie Haywood. As a toddler, he was called by his second name Zowie. But it was such an identifiable name during the Seventies that if I called him loudly in public places, everyone would turn to stare, so I started calling him Joey to take the pressure off.