Famous Quotes & Sayings

Put him up there as the greatest player in Texas history right now. He might have been there, but to have that performance and that game - what do they call it, an instant classic? That was it.

Radio on the Internet is yet another world-shrinking example of what communications analysts call "death of distance.

David Frum

Reagan is a symbol who calls the party to be something broader. The Republican Party is in many ways a very disunited party. In a way, by making Reagan a greater figure, you can create a greater unity.

Read the material carefully. If you find it's unfavorable, it's worth a phone call to issuers to tell them you're going to leave if they can't match the old terms.

(Randy) knows it starts with his offensive line. He made great calls thanks to the line. Mt. Pleasant started blitzing and they were able to pick it up and let Randy make plays.

Randy immediately came off the mound and had some choice words to say. I told him to knock it off and get back on the mound. He screamed again, an expletive and, 'Just call it a strike.' And at that point he also screamed out, 'And the pitch to Wells was an expletive strike as well.' And at that point, I ejected him.

Really, in her eyes, she's got some great schools to choose from and I don't really think she can go wrong with any of them and I just think that obviously she's got a piece of mind of what she wants to do or otherwise she wouldn't want to call the press conference. I think she's ready to make a decision and move on and not feel like she's misleading anyone.

John Ridley

Reactionary conservatives are smiling through the racial apocalypse. To them, race baiting is a joke, as 'humorist' Rush Limbaugh will tell you when he's calling Mexicans 'stupid.' Or it's a matter of semantics when they claim that Sonia Sotomayor is a 'racialist' which, far as I can tell, is the smooth jazz version of being a racist.

Prices went up throughout Southern California this past week, but not at as rapid a pace as we've seen during other gas price spikes. It's likely that increases will continue for at least the next few weeks.

Prices are going to be very volatile. Our natural gas immune system has been compromised, so to speak. When it gets very cold in New England, we're going to see a much higher price spike in California than we might have without Katrina.

Eliot Spitzer

Proponents cleverly wrapped the word reform around the amendment, ... But calling a mule a thoroughbred doesn't make it one.

Susan Collins

Progress has been halting, a trail of missteps that calls into question what has been done during the last four years, and that continues to plague the recovery even today.

Howard Schultz

Prior to the end of the calendar year, Starbucks will be taking a modest price increase,

Cris Collinsworth

Probably more than anything else, he needs a wife, honestly, ... If he had a wife, the minute he takes after Donovan McNabb, his wife would have said, 'What are you doing? Pick up the telephone and call him and apologize. You're so out of line.'

Martin Parr

Personally, I don't take holidays; I go on trips. My idea of relaxing is taking a trip that isn't commissioned. I'll work just as hard, but without that nagging pressure of fulfilling a commission. Now that's what I call a holiday.

People trapped are calling out. They are knocking. The trouble is: time is going by.

People think there is nothing that they can do, that obesity is inevitable. This is not rocket science: It's all about how many calories you're putting in yourself, and how many are getting out. We need to go back to the basics.

People think that ambulances show up automatically. But we're the ones who call and send them.

People think our call center is in India because of the ethnic sound of a rep's voice, but it's in Canada.

Our shelters are always putting out calls for sheets and towels.

The team tried to tell him not to show it (in his) face. I think he did it for a second. But eventually, he calmed down.

The team came out fired up to play Cal State Bernardino and we've always had good games with them in the past. We were up 7-1 at the half and held up the rest of the way. We executed counterattack really well and played really good defense.

The supply conditions in California have not changed significantly from Tuesday.

The supervisor who made the call has not been reassigned. He has been disciplined and it will go on his record. They felt it was an unintentional mistake and they felt he wasn't profiting from this.

Paul Graham

The Summer Founders Program fixes the common problem with working at a startup, which is that it's very lonely. You do nothing but work and sleep and no one understands the situation you are in, and friends don't know why it takes three days for you to call them back.

The speaker has said if you get 50 members who sign a letter calling for elections, we'll have elections. Mr. Reynolds is not one of those people.

The space has no architectural interest, but passengers can see their gate right away. That has a calming effect.

The spacecraft has been programmed to continue even in the event of an emergency. We don't want Cassini to call home if a problem arises, we want it to keep going.

The thing we were doing with our initial visits was to call on retailers who don't have policies to create one.

The thing this meeting will do is generate phone calls because the topics all have been discussed individually and now we're discussing them together.

LenDale White

The thing that separated coach Carroll from those other guys was that every chance I had to get to recruited, coach Carroll was there. The first time he could come see me, he was there. The first time he could call me, he called. It was things like that. I just felt way more comfortable here.

The thing that's a pleasant surprise for me is how calm he is under pressure. All in all, he's done a phenomenal job. He's gotten better each week.

Gene Luen Yang

The thing about research is that there's no end. You constantly have this fear that an expert who knows more than you will call you out on some detail in your book.