Famous Quotes & Sayings

P. J. O'Rourke

Call a man 'ignorant,' and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.

We calmed down (on offense) and took what they gave us.

Serge Schmemann

Like many a Yank before me, I have tried to explain to European friends that Americans actually know soccer quite well, that many of us played it in school and college, but that, well, we just don't find it quite as exciting as, say, what we call football.

We see kids all the time, and they are scared and sick. When children are scared and sick, it upsets their parents, too. We wanted to do something to help the child and to calm the parent.

We've been calling it Super Tuesday. I spent an hour (Monday) just talking to our kids. I just wanted to get a gauge for where they're at heading into the match.

Alan Furst

I am there to entertain. I call my work high escape fiction; it's high, it's good - but it's escape, and I have no delusions about that. I have no ambition to be a serious writer, whatever that means.

To the person who left us a message at the Ponderosa last night, you gave us a telephone number. We do want to talk to you. Call us at the number you provided,

Dada Vaswani

Call Him by whatever name you will, and He will respond.

Johnny Cash

People call me wild. Not really though, I'm not. I guess I've never been normal, not what you call Establishment. I'm country.

There are schools from all over northern California there, so it's very prestigious meet. They have a minimum qualifying requirement for each event, so it's not like you can enter just anyone.

Utah Phillips

When I was in Utah there, first learning the kind of music I love, my favorite singer was T. Texas Tyler. So my friend, Norman Ritchie, the traveling teenage sage, started calling me U. Utah Phillips.

Ellen Goodman

Call me a cockeyed pessimist, but I'm having trouble finding any good news in the trashing of Harriet Miers.

Dwight Henry

I love California. I love Hollywood.

We understand the sensitivity of this case and urge everyone to remain calm and resist efforts to exploit the situation.

Adam Hamilton

If God is not sending earthquakes, destroying economies and inflicting pain upon human beings, what is God doing? God works through people, calling them to help their neighbors in need. God comforts His people, walking with them even 'through the valley of the shadow of death.'

Burning Spear

When people see a legend, they call it a legend. But to be a legend, it's a lot of hard work and patience. You can't play for five or ten years and be a legend. It takes longer than that.

This will help cover phone calls and mileage to check out issues with citizens.

The party campaign manifesto calls for a review of the ministerial structure.

Joe Klein

This record speaks to not only the caliber of play on the field, but to the support of our fans over the years. Congratulations to the fans, the staffs and the players for making the league such a success.

This really isn't that complicated of a scheme. If we're not a good defense, it's not because of him. Ray Rhodes always puts a good product on the field. If we're not a good defense, it's because we as players aren't executing what he calls and we're not getting the job done out there.

This should be read as something of a wake-up call to health departments.

Tamar Jacoby

To call the system inadequate doesn't even come close to it,

To call an evacuation on Sunday morning when the storm was going to hit on Monday morning at 6 a.m. is just ... negligence, ... If he'd called it better than that he would have saved lives.

The only thing I can say and I can implore to everyone in our community, is to look at the case, look at the facts when it comes to trial. And I will say, that I think the grand jury made the right call in this case,

The phone rang, and I looked at the clock. It was 12:57. I thought it was some kind of crack call, so I went back to sleep. I got another call about 2:30 and realized it wasn't a joke.

Dick Ebersol

When you heard Curt Gowdy call a game, you knew it was a big game.

David F. Houston

This survey is a clear message to the citizens of California that our out-of-control legal system is hurting our state's economy and in urgent need of reform.

John Schultz

There has been no response. We've been calling them every two weeks.

We just weren't playing good. As a rookie quarterback, I wasn't getting my reads right and wasn't calling the plays we needed.

Steve Burns

We think this could really be a wake-up call for the congressmen.

We were worried early. I knew if we stayed in it early that was a big key for us. I had to call a time out to get us settled down, but I didn't want to do that.

Tom DeLay

We don't need a hundred hearings going on calling people out of the field to testify... people need to be doing their jobs now,

We as governors join you and others to call for a return of civility to Washington,