Famous Quotes & Sayings

Laura Mvula

'Mvula' is my married name, but for some reason my nan calls me 'McVula.' I'm not sure if it's one of those jokey Caribbean things, or whether she's just getting it wrong.

Shameik Moore

Musically, I have my project, '30058.' It's seven songs, like an EP or mixtape, but I call it a soundtrack because I feel like my life is a movie, and all the songs are moments in my life.

Derek Fisher

More scoring. That's what the league wants. Calling those fouls up front leads to more penetration, maybe more free throws. It's one way to get more points on the scoreboard.

Jeb Bush

My guess is my brother would call his mom and his dad pretty regularly, a lot more than I probably did.

My husband got a call from the head of the local officials' association. There was also a lot of support from some gentlemen who were coaches when I officiated and were friends of ours.

Jayma Mays

My husband calls me a ginger every single day of my life, so that I'm completely used to it, and I've come to see it as a term of endearment.

My hope would be that this demonstration would be a clarion call to Caterpillar. They are an excellent company. They have done wonderful things. But they've made a mistake on this issue.

Jessica Biel

My grandmother, whom we call Biel, thinks it's very unbecoming of me not to smile for the paparazzi. So every time I see them, I think, 'Smile for Biel!'

Warrick Dunn

My grandmother didn't want to come to Atlanta; she wanted to stay home, ... I said, 'If anything happens, call me.' Everything has been OK so far. I have family in New Orleans. I hadn't talked to them. Some of the people I know went to Mississippi. Some went to Texas.

Elvis Costello

My family calls me Declan. But most people call me E.C. I think it comes from my dad. It's an Irish convention. You usually call the first child by the initials.

My faith calls me to leave the world a better place than when I entered it.

Jo Nesbo

My father grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., with my grandparents. In Norwegian my name is pronounced 'Yoo' but my father used to call me 'Joe.'

Shirin Neshat

My father was a doctor, but he was what I would call an intellectual - very well-read and very interested in knowledge. He insisted that I get as much education as my brothers.

Chuck Palahniuk

My father used to call me 'bird bones' and, well, the name fits.

Scott Tucker

My family was helping to manage my Dad's construction company, ... So next thing I know in 1997, I'm a New Englander again! And with the woods and the call of wild; I decided to give it a second chance.

Roma Downey

My family still lives in Ireland-and my sisters are always terribly interested in who the next guest star might be. When they got the call that Richard Chamberlain was coming on the show, it was met with squeals of delight.

My family put up with a lot in 30 years. I'm pretty much on call all the time. You try to put your family first, but with a job like this, sometimes you can't.

Rudolfo Anaya

My father was what you would call a cowboy, a vaquero; he worked out in the ranches with cattle. And my mother came from farmers down in the valley.

Helio Castroneves

My dad is down there. He's the one who's calling the shots.

Joshua Malina

My dad in particular I tend to use - I call him 'The Brain.' If he's accessible, I'd rather put it through his brain. My wife, Melissa, maintains that the closer he is in proximity to me, the less I think for myself. And I think she's actually correct. So anything worth mulling over, I will mull over with my father, and that includes ratings.

Jason Bay

Maybe this is a wake-up call for us, too, to say 'Hey, we're shaking things up,' and, hopefully, it can help motivate us.

John Williamson

Maybe they should call Guinness to see about the record for the most frivolous press conference.

Maybe the owner's on the front porch wondering why you are here. And we have to explain to them we got a call to their house and they don't know where it came from. It's somebody's idea of a joke. It's not funny to us.

Maybe it was a wake-up call for her, hopefully.

David Sanborn

Maybe I call the shots, but it's not about them and me. It's about me as a part of everything.

George Tenet

No one told us what to say or how to say it, ... We will always call it as we see it.

Jesse White

No one would call him that to his face ---- he's just Shaun. When he comes home, he's a regular part of the family who just so happens to be a dynamic snowboarder.

No, I'm going to need live-in help. I was thinking of calling my mom. I know she'd come, but she's got this trip to Ireland next month with her friends; it's something they've been planning for two years, and I'd hate to...

No. If folks call my phone, I answer. But no, we do not have a policy (for dealing with complaints).

Mitchell Reiss

No political party, and certainly no responsible political leadership, deserves to serve in a government unless it cooperates and supports fully and unconditionally the police, and calls on its supporters to do so.

Now we get into the part of the track I call the rhythm section turns 4, 5 and 6. Hard, hard braking here as we go down to 3rd gear, it might even be second.

Now, when someone calls and says, 'You haven't picked up my trash,' we can get on the computer and find out how long it took us to pick up the trash after they called,

Now whatever you call it, it's a catastrophe, people are dying at an increasing rate and we can debate what it should be called and should not be called, but that's not the real issue,