Famous Quotes & Sayings

Olli Jokinen

It was a wake-up call for us tonight, definitely. We can't take nights off. We have to play hard every single night. And we didn't do it. We have a good record at home. But we have to be a lot better. I have to give them credit. They're a lot better club than their record.

It was a wake-up call for the players who do start. I didn't see it coming. Nobody saw it coming.

It was a wake-up call for our team. Anthony has responded great. There was a whole misconception of that whole deal. Anthony and I have a great relationship. He and the rest of the team took it for what it was: a challenge, a challenge for them to be better.

Ozzie Guillen

It was a wake-up call for everybody. After that, they came together as a team.

Pete Lembo

It was as clear as it gets. It was not a judgment call whatsoever.

It was a rodeo out there. You can't take your hand off your stick and grab a guy by the jersey. We have new rules for a reason. But we've been getting the breaks. You don't get the calls when you get outworked.

David Newman

It was a uniform green last year, as they are in Australia. But this colour we call 'U.S. Open blue' is better at day and night.

John Browning

It was at that point that they noticed that these hard drives were missing, ... They did not immediately call their supervisors, and the lab was closed for two weeks.

It was a tough way to lose, a hard-fought and very emotional game. And it was a great shot by Cal to win it.

It was a smelly affair. I call it an unplanned remodeling.

Jason Elam

It was a smart call because had I missed and they had gone down boom, boom, boom, they could have gotten into field goal position pretty easily,

It was a system that was wide open to fraud. All you had to do was call FEMA on the telephone and lie, and you could get money. It was just a question of how many people were willing to make false statements.

It will be a lot funnier. It will have a lot more raw material, as I call it.

Michael Tucker

It's a credit to her character that she was as calm as she was. All I did was keep talking to her as we went down the ladder.

Frank Miller

'Comic book' has come to mean a specific genre, not a story form, in people's minds. So someone will call 'Die Hard' a 'comic-book movie,' when it has nothing to do with comic books. I'd rather have comics be the vehicle by which stories are told.

We practiced what they were going to do all week so nothing was a surprise to us. We were able to call what they were doing and we played well as a team.

Tom Brokaw

Sometime in the early Seventies, gender-free toys were briefly a popular idea. So at Christmas on the California beach in 1972, we downplayed the dolls with frilly dresses and loaded up Santa's sack with toy trucks and earth movers for our three daughters.

We know what we lost, and we know what we have. I knew the caliber of players we had left on this team.

wake-up call for every guy going through these houses.

Vernon Jordan is an individual who I understand helped Monica get an interview with a public relations firm in New York where she was eventually going to -- and may still -- park herself as an entry-level intern or apprentice, or whatever they call it in that trade.

David Sedaris

I felt uncomfortable calling myself a writer until I started with 'The New Yorker,' and then I was like, 'Okay, now you can call yourself that.

Charles Spurgeon

Calvinism is the gospel, and nothing else.

David Hockney

California is always in my mind.

The point is that when they talk about quality of health care, patients mean something entirely different than experts do. They're not talking about numbers or outcomes but about their own human experience, which is a combination of cost, paperwork and what I'll call the hassle factor, the impersonal nature of the care.

Martin Van Buren

For myself, therefore, I desire to declare that the principle that will govern me in the high duty to which my country calls me is a strict adherence to the letter and spirit of the Constitution as it was designed by those who framed it.

Marisa Miller

I think California has some very good looking women... I know Stephanie Seymour is from San Diego, and I know Josie Maran - who's my very good friend - she's from Northern California. So I think California produces some good looking women, for sure.

When you think about it, the only way to get somebody is to stick-check because there's no checking in women's hockey. She was just looking to call everything.

We have to get out of the mode of playing good caliber teams good, but coming out a little short.

When you're visiting the page of an enterprise software vendor and you want to call their support number, that phone number will be highlighted and you'll instantly be connected.

Gary Condit

When folks start calling my dad a murderer or suggesting my mom and dad had something to do with the disappearance, that's too much, too far, unfair and it's wrong,

We were already looking at Southern California when he approached us.

We were trying to find a new shoe place and we were calling all these places. They told us they were going to call us and we never got a phone call back. There was always some problem that kept getting in the way.

Charlie Munger

We bought a doomed textile mill [Berkshire Hathaway] and a California S&L [Wesco] just before a calamity. Both were bought at a discount to liquidation value.