Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

He's the calming effect. When everybody else is losing it, he's still calm.

He's just a good person. I know I'm not his wife, but they all call me Mrs. Tom Joyner in Chattanooga. I'm his connection there.

Hopefully, we won't have to make that call. It's not a call we want to make, and hopefully the drivers will remember they are in control.

How California decides to (build these plants) should be on the mind of everybody in Silicon Valley.

He's prepared to call a special session, but there are a lot of options out there.

He's ready for a challenge to get out to a different environment, with more people in the park, with better caliber of players that he'll face. He's ready to do those things. In his mind, he was ready a few months ago, but we thought it made more sense to wait.

I didn't finish high school - left home when I was 15. I moved away to Fresno and worked as a grocery clerk. I went to college part-time at California State Fresno, and then ended up finishing in two and a half years because I wanted to get on with things.

I didn't hear about it until this morning. I'm going to call him this afternoon. I hope he's OK.

Most of the wine produced in Northern California was industrial.

Adam Yauch

My friend calls him 'the director, I need more energy in my section!

I think they call it a letdown game. We just really got out outplayed at Montana State. We just never played hard. We never matched their intensity.

Bill Gates

I think five or six years ago, if you'd said to people that software would be incredible in terms of making photos better, music better, TV better, phone calls very different, they would have been quite skeptical, they would have thought, 'How can software do that? Now, particularly in music and to some degree in TV, they've seen that it makes a huge difference. It allows them to pick the things that they're interested in, it allows them to see it when they want to, to share with friends what they've seen and what they like.

I review every call (the paramedics) go on.

Stacy was this really controlled, fluid skater. And that really carried into his personality. I had been snowboarding my whole life. I went to surf camp in Southern California every year until a few years ago, so I had been surfing for a long time as well. I had more of the surfer style of skating which was cool 'cause it's kind of what I needed to do in the role.

That fetter wise people call strong which drags down, yields, but is difficult to undo; after having cut this at last, people leave the world, free from cares, and leaving desires and pleasures behind.

That drop in lung cancer is linked to the fact that cigarette consumption in California has dropped 50 percent, ... What we're seeing is the first disease reduction resulting from California's comprehensive tobacco prevention efforts.

James Carville

Maybe it comes back stronger. No one forgot how to play the saxophone or how to cook or write. Or have a good time. That's all still there. Calamities and disasters are part of New Orleans' history. This too shall pass.

Barry Lopez

We cannot, of course, save the World because we do not have authority over its parts. We can serve the world though. That is everyone's calling, to lead a life that helps.

Carrie Fisher

Saying you're an alcoholic and an addict is like saying you're from Los Angeles and from California.

Carl Sagan

We humans appear on the cosmic calendar so recently that our recorded history occupies only the last few seconds of the last minute of December 31st.

That was the call that was made, so it must be the right call.

Mike Tice

That would be a perfect scenario, where he works with that offensive staff through the whole week and works with Steve to formulate how the game will be called. Maybe Steve calls the game in, with the help of Jerry. But anything that can lighten the load of what I've taken on will be certainly fun.

That was a hard call for us to make. I was disappointed, but what are you going to do?

That's a very difficult time, because you can't think. I mean, you know, you just don't process. And even in that meeting, I'm not too sure how much they heard me, but it was OK. Because I knew that, I knew they're not hearing it, or not right now. It'll come back maybe later, and they know they can call me.

I was really looking to being wanted . . . to have a place to call home and finish my career out,

I was proud of the way our girls handled themselves today. There was a lot of name calling and trash talking going on from their players, things like that, but our team played with a lot of class. Our girls kept their cool and showed a lot of poise and character. My team played with a lot of heart today.

I wasn't expecting to go to California. I got the call the day before the North-South game. I came home for Christmas and flew out (Dec. 26). Right after the game we flew back that night.

Charles Dickens

I wish you could make a friend of me, Lizzie. Do you think you could? I have no more of what they call character, my dear, than a canary-bird, but I know I am trustworthy.

Mariano Puerta

I was having dinner in the players' restaurant when the call came.

I think probation would have been a more appropriate sentence. I don't think the facts of this case call out for a period of incarceration,

We're calling for some slight improvement in the weather by early next week. We're still looking for a return to light trade winds but still a wet trade winds pattern for next week.

Frank Beamer

We got back to what I call Virginia Tech football. I don't know where we've been here for a while, but personal fouls, penalties, sloppy play, that is not us. We didn't win all these games being like that.