Famous Quotes & Sayings

I call it 'the shame bill.' Shame on you.

I call him a playmaker. He's not slow - he's got speed and a great arm. ... He's a system man, and they have a great system over there. He's been in it since high school, and he's comfortable in the system.

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 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.

Matthew Rhys

I still dream about that one opportunity where the Welsh Rugby Union call me up and say, 'We need you.' There is an incredibly talented Welsh hooker called Matthew Rees, so maybe some incredible quirk of misfortune for him would mean I get called up instead.

Anthony Bourdain

Since the very beginning, Emeril's had a sense of humor about me calling him names and poking fun at him.

Mario Balotelli

If I go out in the street and one guy gets a picture, then someone calls the press to say Mario was there. The day after in the press, it's, 'Mario was there'. That's normal, I just walk in town like a normal guy.

We don't like calling him a janitor. He does way more than that.

We don't have guys on this team that are like that, that are going to call guys out. We love each other. These are the closest friends I have.

Constance Marie

Family to me is foundation. It's the people that you can call on whether you love them or hate them. When push comes to shove, they're there for you, and that's kind of how this family is.

Wal-Mart over the last five years has been able to grow its same-store sales at 6 to 7 percent. Now that growth has dwindled to 2 or 3 percent. I call this a gigantic change.

John Beilein

We know that they're going to play good defense. We call it the New Jersey defense, the strong, tough defense. We knew that they were going to play that way.

Patrick Ness

How you leave the reader is so important - not the climax; I call it the 'exit feeling'.

John Harington

Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it treason

Hosni Mubarak

I am telling you that I am very grateful and am so proud of you for being a symbolic generation that is calling for change to the better, that is dreaming for a better future, and is making the future.

Henry Shelton

We get these calls every day. The companies have become much more hard-hearted.

We get a lot of phone calls about people having this or that for sale. We look at a lot of deals. We pass on 10 times the ones that we do. Some work for us, some don't.

Steve Mann

We get a lot of calls about why (a certain) film isn't playing. For the most part it's up to us, but there's a lot of exception to that. People don't understand that a lot of films we think would be successful in Brainerd, but it's not in the film distributors' marketing plan.

We are not putting pressure on others. We are calling for contributions.

Graydon Carter

What do you call an electorate that seems prone to acting out irrationally, is full of inchoate rage, and is constantly throwing fits and tantrums? You call it teenaged.

Al Davis

We've gotta run that football better, we've gotta run it tougher, and people have to understand that they're gonna get knocked. Not what we call zone blocking.

We've had calls from a few players in Florida, ... We tell them there has to be a lot of states to cross before you get to Washington.

Chuck D.

We've discussed it and we've gotten some phone calls and e-mails from residents supporting it.