Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Dickens

I wish you could make a friend of me, Lizzie. Do you think you could? I have no more of what they call character, my dear, than a canary-bird, but I know I am trustworthy.

Mariano Puerta

I was having dinner in the players' restaurant when the call came.

I think probation would have been a more appropriate sentence. I don't think the facts of this case call out for a period of incarceration,

We're calling for some slight improvement in the weather by early next week. We're still looking for a return to light trade winds but still a wet trade winds pattern for next week.

Frank Beamer

We got back to what I call Virginia Tech football. I don't know where we've been here for a while, but personal fouls, penalties, sloppy play, that is not us. We didn't win all these games being like that.

Bill Self

I thought it was a physical game before the game started. I mean before the opening tip. I don't know that the intentional foul made it more physical. I think it made officials call more stuff after that.

Cynthia Lennon

Julian would call and Yoko or one of her people would say John was sleeping,

You don't ever practice such a thing. The situation was pretty intense. There were a couple critical calls that were non-calls that were an important part of the game. We weren't used to that situation.

Marie Osmond

You just need to be honest with how you're feeling. But, a lot of women are afraid of it because they think, 'Oh, they are going to take my baby away. They're gonna call me incompetent. I'm going to lose my job. I've got to be tough, it's a man's world.'

Michael Myers

We'd rather go forward, but we have to play within the defense, and if it calls for us to drop, we drop.

Giuliano Amato

The good thing about not calling it a Constitution is that no one can ask for a referendum on it.

Charles Dickens

He calls the knaves, Jacks, this boy! . . . And what coarse hands he has! And what thick boots!

He called from Nashville right during David's party, ... They probably talked for a half-hour on the phone. He said he would record some of his concert, and we'll send it to my son in a care package. For this Marine to call David, it's something we will always remember.

Jeff Allen

I'd say I've received about 25 calls so far from people who've said they might have a use for it, but most of them want something smaller.

I don't want to call it only cosmetic, because these things do have an effect, but how profound the effect is, that I would question. Much of this is not about policy, it's about motion. It shows that they are responding; that they are moving.

I can certainly tell you there were a great deal of calls after those two cases were announced. After this one you are my first call.

Jason Wu

I call white the most powerful non-color; it's clean, optimistic, powerful.

William Butler Yeats

I call on those that call me son,Grandson, or great-grandson,On uncles, aunts, great-uncles or great-aunts,To judge what I have done.Have I, that put it into words,Spoilt what old loins have sent?

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.

Pierce Brosnan

I was looking forward to making (Bond) edgier and grittier -- and for all of that to go down in one phone call was highly disappointing,

Tony Oliva

Kirby meant to me a lot. For me, it's like my own son. He used to call me 'Papa', too.

I would not say it's an epidemic by any stretch, but it is a problem. We used to get one or two calls a year ... Now we're getting one or two calls a week.

Jacques said any roll we can get on is a bonus. Well, I would start calling this a roll.

I would say the ice fishing is what we call gravy. The lion's share is made in the summer and fall.

I would suspect his tone would change significantly if they don't make it onto the November ballot. If that happened, I could see calling the Legislature all sorts of names by the end of the campaign.

Ken Lay is what I would call a fix-it man who thinks he can pick up the phone and take care of it because of who he is, a man of power. It's as though he thinks he can call anyone, any time. They're not going to like that kind of attitude.

Just think of it as a golf cart with a V-8. Call it the Silver Bullet, baby.

Jose was just in the right spot at the right time on all three of those goals. I wouldn't call them garbage goals, I think it was more of his hustle that made it happen. He's got great vision of the game and he's just in the right spot all the time.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Joseph Smith was true to his calling and fulfilled his duty even in the face of severe persecution and great personal sacrifice.

I think it's much more difficult to keep players happy nowadays. We live in what I call a fast-food society, where we all want immediate gratification. We want what we want and we want it now.

He didn't want her to be around her friends. I used to call her everyday until she said 'don't, because he checks the caller ID at lunch.' I just stayed away because I didn't want to hurt her feelings.