Famous Quotes & Sayings

Regardless of how things are going, it's prudent for us to see what the market will bear. We've had a couple of calls to say other parties are interested in our rights.

Diane Watson

Refugees' calls up to mind that people come from different lands and have to be taken care of, ... These are American citizens.

Jonathan Kozol

Our political establishment refuses to use the word 'segregated.' They call the schools diverse, which means half black, half Hispanic, and maybe two white kids and three Asians. 'Diverse' has become a synonym for 'segregated.'

Pattern modeling is very useful and a major step, but users don't always conform to those patterns. For example, when there is a specific event like a traffic jam or a big rugby game there is a big spike in mobile phone calls in a concentrated area. Traditional network design can't cope with those changes in network usage very well.

Pat has kind of worked his way into some minutes because he's relentless. We call him a kamikaze because he's fearless out there, so Grinnell's style fit him perfectly.

Paul is a good friend of mine and I really wanted to support all the people who have put together this race. It's a big deal for Pensacola to have this. I wasn't looking forward to calling (Paul) and telling him I couldn't run, but there really was no other alternative. I had to do it.

Our mission is not just to make a profit, it is to fulfill a calling . . . An ethical standard is higher than a legal standard.

Our motto is to stay the course and the playoff intensity will still be there. I don't look at just one game. I'm very pleased at the way the guys have called it all year. The players dictate whether there will be a lot of calls or not.

In Tibet, they call them 'the little people'.

I often call it crisis management rather than case management.

Richard Perle

In the Middle East, democratization does not mean calling immediate elections and then living with whatever happens next.

In the National Football League, there are a lot of teams that the safeties are the leading tacklers on their football team and that is why we call them safeties. They have got to be good tacklers and at times, we can tackle and do tackle. Other times, it is just bad. That is just like someone trying to be a journalist and you have to teach them how to write. They are supposed to know how to write. If you are a defensive football player you are supposed to know how to tackle and if you can't, you are in the wrong profession.

I ran his plays this week, calling them by numbers, to make it easy for our defense. What I couldn't duplicate was the speed he's got over there.

James Jones

I ran around the back and was calling for my daddy-in-law. Then I tried to see if I could get him out through the front, but I couldn't do nothing because there was too much smoke. I was scared. He was still trapped in there.

Charles Dickens

If your governor don't prove a alleybi, he'll be what the Italians call reg'larly flummoxed

David Burnett

If you want a reflective sign that will be visible day or night, call us,

Stephen Levine

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Wally Buono

If you want to win, you make calls like that. If you worry about the consequences, you keep on losing.

If you write something that allows somebody to copy stuff later on, you could be jailed. This is a wake-up call for programmers.

Caitlyn Jenner

If you want to call me names, make jokes and doubt my intentions, go ahead, because the reality is I can take it.

Paul Davis

If you want to call it a must-win, that's what it is.

Bob Costas

I get a call that says 'Michelle Kwan has withdrawn from the Olympics' and at that point I was thinking 'Wait, what Olympics am I at? Lillehammer? Sarajevo?' and the next thing I know, 45 minutes later I'm interviewing Michelle.

Paul Tsongas

In my time it was the Kennedy call to public service in the Third World. Had there been no Peace Corps, my life would have been radically different.

In my life as an artist, I follow what I call my 'inner directive' because you can never predict what the world is going to do. You can never predict how people are going to respond to what you do. What I have to do is just trust what's sending me down a road of creative inquiry is important to me and somehow that will make it into a piece of work that is important to others.

Maria Semple

I never understood the concept of a fluffy summer read. For me, summer reading means beaches, long train rides and layovers in foreign airports. All of which call for escaping into really long books.

Edward Hirsch

In every culture, in every language, there is expressive play, expressive word play; there's language use to different purposes that we would call poetry.

In 2005, I was the first member of Congress to introduce legislation calling for an immediate withdrawal of our troops from Iraq.

Kirk Talley

In 2003 the blackmail started. He started calling me and first said he was a private investigator. I quickly saw that he wasn't, that it was just a scheme to get money out of me. So, I went to the authorities and got them involved because I knew if I paid him, he'd be back in a month. I knew I wasn't going to do that the rest of my life.

In 30 seconds, we went from getting ready to call the MPs to everyone shaking hands.

I had a woman call me this morning in tears because her daughter was named Katrina, ... and she was traumatized practically to the point where she wouldn't go out of the house.

I guess you could call it gut-check time. I had lost all confidence in my putting, and on the PGA Tour, that's what it always comes down to.

Paul Tracy

I guess you can't call this single-car qualifying if there are two cars on the track at the same time. It's frustrating.

I guess its kind of a wake-up call for us. We just got to get better.