Famous Quotes & Sayings

He's been what I call our utility man, he can play any position.

Dusty Baker

He's getting more confident, more control of the strike zone, more confidence to throw any pitch in any count. That's what you call progress and what you like to see of the young man.

He's been extremely cooperative with us, ... We have been focusing on him, but I'm not going to call him a prime suspect or anything else at this point.

Hopefully, this will serve as a wake-up call

Hopefully, this was a wake-up call for us. I told their coach they deserved to win this game. I think we were looking past them.

There is an increasing willingness to take every expense short of salary and call it non-recurring.

There is an increasing trend to have the call center representative portray the same image that the company is out there marketing.

We may have been a little inebriated if you want to call it that.

We make them feel welcome, ... Here, they have a mountain they can call their own.

We looked at her, this hotel clerk, and we said, 'OK, if you want to call the police, call the police. You think they're going to come over here to help you out?' She started putting on her thinking cap real fast and she said 'OK, go on in,' ... She could've got shot like that, trying to keep people out.

We made the wrong call on the field for the protection. We could have handled the guy off the right edge with the right call.

When I wrote 'Your Republic Is Calling You,' it was Franz Kafka's writing that I had most in mind, and James Joyce's 'Ulysses.' Entirely out of the blue, Kafka's characters receive an order to go somewhere, and when they try to comply, they never quite manage it. Ki-yong in 'Your Republic Is Calling You' is precisely that sort of character.

When the moon covers the sun, we have a solar eclipse. What do you call it when birds do that?

Kimberley Nixon

If something doesn't work in my house - TV, phone, stereo, anything - I just call my dad, and he knows the answer.

Jamie Court

Hurricane Katrina will only increase the probability of profiteering and should be a wakeup call to legislators.

Chuck D.

Hurricane Katrina was a wake-up call to this country . . . It wakes us up to the fact that our God is sovereign and we should be constantly in a state of repentance humbly seeking God's favor.

Dennis Hastert

Hurricane Katrina is a wake-up call for our nation. It reminded us of the power of Mother Nature and the need for federal, state and local governments to always be prepared... As we go about rebuilding the Gulf Coast, we welcome the president's proposals as well as the thoughts of state and local leaders.

Rex Walters

I actually called coach Doherty, coach Williams and Pat Riley to call on my behalf,

Michael Freeman

He wasn't very confident of his IDs, ... In fact, I wouldn't go so far as to call them identifications.

He was going to call in sick today but he wanted to make more money for the holidays.

He was integral in the whole thing because he's the one who heard us trying to call through on the radio. He definitely deserves a lot of credit.

Emerson Fittipaldi

He was the computer. I would have a dinner with him, if the car wasn't handling well on the Friday, and would explain to him what it was doing at different parts of the track. He would go back to the garage, and call the mechanics. And by Saturday morning the car would be fantastic. Only Colin Chapman could do that. Of all the engineers I worked with, all the team managers, Colin was a genius who had the intuition to do it.

He was struggling to play each week so we had to make the call to do it,

Carlos Tevez

He spent the whole game calling me a 'lousy foreigner' and saying I wouldn't finish the match, ... We Argentines have to worry not only about the game but also about the refereeing.

Edgar Allan Poe

I have great faith in fools - my friends call it self-confidence

I have checked the capsule ... now I can call the mission a full success.

Pritam Chakraborty

I don't have actors as friends. There's no actor who's my 3 A.M. friend. There are a couple of musicians whom I can call friends, and I have a close knit group of friends whom I feel comfortable with.

I don't -- I don't think you could imagine what condition Monica has been in since that meeting, as you call it, in the hotel that night. So we did not have any discussions of any substance from that night to today.

Simon McBurney

I don't have what German directors call 'a concept' - a solid, fixed sense of the pattern that you should impose on the given work. I always get the feeling that I am raking up the earth rather than laying down the concrete.

Jeff Ross

I'd like to do a Jewish porno movie. I'd call it 'I don't Want to Do That.

I did receive a call from Eric today to discuss a few things. But I think the contents of the conversation should remain private.

I didn't want a live outside line, even though it was the head coach, ... It's tough enough to call games, and I was under the impression that whatever Mike's input would be he would do that either prior to the game or during the week or at halftime.

Jim Boeheim

I didn't like the non-calls. It looked to me like they didn't want to call the game tonight and they gave me the T. I've never been thrown out of a game. I wanted the technical. You can't say this is an exhibition. I watched the game in the second half and they called them. I'd rather not have been thrown out. I'm disappointed. I wanted to be out there.