Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sylvester Croom

I'll tell you what. I have met old guys who played for him at Kentucky and I never met them before and let me tell you something, it's a calling card. If someone played for Coach Bryant, you immediately respected the guy.

I know it's tough for him. I get the feeling, just from talking to him, that he wants to play, and I don't think he'd be calling us updating us on the situation as much as he is if he didn't want to play.

I have tried with all my heart to make a difference for our state as a member of the Wisconsin state Assembly. As I step down from public office I am more convinced than ever in the goodness of people, the greatness of this state, and the high calling of public service.

I print out the roster and use it when calling on students in class. Learning first names assists in the learning process. A relationship between the teacher and student develops from that.

He's really just calling in the plays. But, sometimes I need to hear it one or two (extra) times and he gets kind of irritated with me. He's pretty good with that thing. I just have to tell him he doesn't have to yell in it, he just has to talk.

I don't know if we're calling it a day. ... We've not stopped for 10 years. We always swore if it wasn't 100 percent fun, we'd stop it.

I didn't see it so I thought he was calling me out, but Jason said to me it (the contact from Hill) was all right.

J. I. Packer

Our high and privileged calling is to do the will of God in the power of God for the glory of God.

Ron Wilson

Hey, they're calling penalties as advertised. Everyone's still shocked, 'Why are they calling penalties in the playoffs?' They're supposed to because they want to work, and Gary Bettman was here so, hello! I mean it doesn't take a rocket scientist or even a sportswriter to figure that one out.

The last couple of weekends, we haven't executed well. It's amazing. It's in our seniors. I don't mind calling them out because I think they'll be there in the end. If we're going to make a run, we need those seniors.

The irony of the pot calling the kettle black. Where's the pun in that?

The institute's hand should not tremble in calling the president's attention, in giving him a yellow (penalty) card.

Phyllis Logan

When somebody's calling you 'Mommy,' it's a wonderful thing. But also to have that responsibility and to know that you and your partner have this little thing that's totally relying on you - and it made me, I suppose, less selfish. Not that I was mega-selfish to start with, but it's lovely having that responsibility. It's scary.

John Bradshaw

The unlimited power that many modern gurus offer is false hope. Their programs calling us to unlimited power have made them rich, not us. They touch our false selves and tap our toxic shame.

David Bowie

My son's full real name is Duncan Zowie Haywood. As a toddler, he was called by his second name Zowie. But it was such an identifiable name during the Seventies that if I called him loudly in public places, everyone would turn to stare, so I started calling him Joey to take the pressure off.

Kofi Annan

There are no excuses, ... If we are to show ourselves worthy of calling ourselves members of humankind, we must rise to this challenge. Our response will be no less than a measure of our humanity.

Philipp Meyer

After I finished college, I got a job on Wall Street as a derivatives trader, but after a couple years of it, I was calling in sick in order to work on my novel.

Jason Newsted

A couple years ago I was going to back off and actually thought about retiring, but it keeps calling me back, and I'm going to keep going back as long as it calls me. I really think it has something to do with the good vibes that I feel I've spread through my performance and through the time that I've spent with fans.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

Sometime around 2006, I decided I had missed my true calling as a young adult author.

Someone shouts food fight; food starts flying; management comes and tells us to get out or we're calling the police.

Special teams in the playoffs are always huge. The power play and penalty kill are always going to win you games, especially if they keep calling penalties like this and there's going to be a lot of them.

We had prayer with her over the phone, ... We started calling people, and we decided we needed to pray again.

Aleksandar Hemon

The trouble with calling a book a novel, well, it's not like I'm writing the same book all the time, but there is a continuity of my interests, so when I start writing a book, if I call it 'a novel,' it separates it from other books.

Gordon B. Hinckley

We magnify our priesthood and enlarge our calling when we serve with diligence and enthusiasm in those responsibilities to which we are called by proper authority.

We do not understand why we, who engage in peaceful protests, are considered to be 'credible threats.' Such terminology is effectively calling us terrorists. The initial reaction is to wonder how peaceful protesters can be considered 'credible threats.' However, it is also important to consider that the Pentagon may view us as a threat to military recruitment, and therefore, some sort of threat to the country. Of course, by that flawed logic, since the majority of Americans are opposed to the war, the Pentagon can see most Americans as a 'threat to the country'.

They should have disclosed that all along. They should never have been calling them gluten-free.

They were looking at Kali and saw the two other guys (the linemen). They feel (Kali) can start right away. They run the same type of offense like us, so he should fit in right away. The coach has been calling me everyday. They felt he could start over their starter. Kali is more mobile and he has a good concept of the offense.

They were doubling him and he was calling Elliott's number and that just shows what kind of leader he is. Porter's a great player and Stephen held him to two points, so it shows what kind of competitor he is.

With counter protestors, that is where many of the issues arrive. They usually have the opposite side of extreme thinking and things like nasty name calling between groups can happen.

(Salazar) came out opposing the project, and he's been calling the Forest Service and getting information on it since late 2005.

John Ridley

Reactionary conservatives are smiling through the racial apocalypse. To them, race baiting is a joke, as 'humorist' Rush Limbaugh will tell you when he's calling Mexicans 'stupid.' Or it's a matter of semantics when they claim that Sonia Sotomayor is a 'racialist' which, far as I can tell, is the smooth jazz version of being a racist.

Eliot Spitzer

Proponents cleverly wrapped the word reform around the amendment, ... But calling a mule a thoroughbred doesn't make it one.

People trapped are calling out. They are knocking. The trouble is: time is going by.