Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nicholas Haslam

People think that buying something for their home which is up-to-date is chic, but often it's a cliche. I call people who simply give clients the current 'thing' stylists not decorators.

Vanderlei Luxemburgo

Whether we play well or not, we have to win this game. We must call on all our fans to create the right atmosphere, as this is like a final. My players are not brimming with confidence but they understand that they have the responsibility of putting in a decent performance.

We're standing in unity with the national movement. But we're not actually calling for everyone to miss work or not go to school.

Pat Robertson

We're getting tons of calls from people not quite knowing what to do,

Pat Riley

When we are in the penalty, you have to go to him as much as you can. We kept trying to call his number.

What a gift it's been to have students of that caliber of talent helping us out.

Ron Gardenhire

What he should do is call me. Not you.

We're still in the crisis stage, ... Once we're past search and rescue and things calm down, we'll come up with guidelines on how we're going to use the money.

We're looking for a slingshot effect. If we win this primary or have a very, very strong showing, the Washington caucus-goers will be reluctant to reject the will of the people. It will be a signal to California and the rest of the country that he is viable and this thing is not wrapped up.

Bob Filner

However, don't let these statistics mislead you, gang violence is not limited to California and or big urban areas - that might have been true a while ago but it is no longer the case today.

Charlotte Whitton

Call me anything you like, but don't call me a lady.

We found out about the grant really late. For three weeks, I spent every spare minute of my time calling people. Everybody came on board.

We grew up like sisters. My children call her their aunt.

Tim Healy

We felt like there was a foul (before the turnover), but you're not going to get a call like that in those situations.

We're going to make very clear all the risks California faces.

Working with family and members of the department, we will be able to calm her down and relax her to the point we will be able to get concisely whatever she had,

John Scott

We're been inundated with phone calls from institutions and people in industry who want to get out of TWA.

Leslie Nielsen

The reason they call it 'golf' is that all the other 4 letter words were used up.

Leonard Susskind

The word 'universe' is obviously not intended to have a plural, but science has evolved in such a way that we need a plural noun for something similar to what we ordinarily call our universe.

Lev Grossman

I love rare books. Not that I own a lot of them, mind you. You couldn't quite call me a rare-book collector. But I did once work in a rare-books library, and I wrote a novel about a rare book.

We knew what to do, we just had to calm down.

Our guys aren't perfect. They strive for excellence and calls do get missed. But I guess the difference is that some of those calls are missed because we're human beings, and previously they were missed because we picked and chose.

Don Zimmer

Our guys used to call him Mr. Clutch. He was a clutch pitcher.

Our people are on conference calls right now, working through a lot of the issues like where should we be sending our people, where are the majority of claims coming in at the moment, what is the primary damage.

Our storm (today) and Wednesday will be down in Southern California on Friday.

Our fund-raiser tells us that it can take three, four or five meetings before you get companies to commit (to a project like this), which could take four to eight months. But he was really encouraged by their response. He had people calling him the day after the show." ()

Bruce Coville

When I go into schools to speak, I am not giving a speech - it's really a one-man show. I call it 'didactic standup.'

Gabriel Byrne

The Catholic Church is an innately conservative rock - they call themselves the 'rock of Peter' - and its resistance to change is, ironically, what has kept it constant throughout the ages.

Charles Hazlewood

In America, they have this nauseating habit of calling the conductor 'maestro'. I always slightly gag when the cor anglais player goes, 'Maestro, can I discuss bar 19 with you?'

Erwin McManus

I think we've overstated that God is the God who wants us to obey. Obedience is not the end game. Obedience is only our calling so that we can step into our freedom.

Lyor Cohen

The primary part of the weekend is centered around my children, and I have to be flexible. To call an audible is to be liquid enough to understand that at any given time you have to be a chauffeur or a chaperone, especially for my 12-year-old and whatever her plans are.

Bruce Cockburn

We're confronted with great darkness as a species right now as spiritual creatures on this planet. I don't think it's hopeless, and I don't want 'You've Never Seen Everything' to make people feel hopeless. But I think we've got to call a spade a spade.

Desi Arnaz

I had started calling her Lucy shortly after we met; I didn't like the name Lucille. That's how our television show was called I Love Lucy, not Lucille.