Famous Quotes & Sayings

Randy immediately came off the mound and had some choice words to say. I told him to knock it off and get back on the mound. He screamed again, an expletive and, 'Just call it a strike.' And at that point he also screamed out, 'And the pitch to Wells was an expletive strike as well.' And at that point, I ejected him.

Really, in her eyes, she's got some great schools to choose from and I don't really think she can go wrong with any of them and I just think that obviously she's got a piece of mind of what she wants to do or otherwise she wouldn't want to call the press conference. I think she's ready to make a decision and move on and not feel like she's misleading anyone.

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.

Prices went up throughout Southern California this past week, but not at as rapid a pace as we've seen during other gas price spikes. It's likely that increases will continue for at least the next few weeks.

Prices are going to be very volatile. Our natural gas immune system has been compromised, so to speak. When it gets very cold in New England, we're going to see a much higher price spike in California than we might have without Katrina.

Eliot Spitzer

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

Susan Collins

Progress has been halting, a trail of missteps that calls into question what has been done during the last four years, and that continues to plague the recovery even today.

Howard Schultz

Prior to the end of the calendar year, Starbucks will be taking a modest price increase,

Cris Collinsworth

Probably more than anything else, he needs a wife, honestly, ... If he had a wife, the minute he takes after Donovan McNabb, his wife would have said, 'What are you doing? Pick up the telephone and call him and apologize. You're so out of line.'

Martin Parr

Personally, I don't take holidays; I go on trips. My idea of relaxing is taking a trip that isn't commissioned. I'll work just as hard, but without that nagging pressure of fulfilling a commission. Now that's what I call a holiday.

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

People think there is nothing that they can do, that obesity is inevitable. This is not rocket science: It's all about how many calories you're putting in yourself, and how many are getting out. We need to go back to the basics.

People think that ambulances show up automatically. But we're the ones who call and send them.

People think our call center is in India because of the ethnic sound of a rep's voice, but it's in Canada.

Our shelters are always putting out calls for sheets and towels.

Our team was great during the summer. People call it the Lake Washington nation because we all hangout together and workout.

Ours is all grassroots. We encourage our members to send faxes and make calls to their senators.

Ours is a grass-roots effort, ... We're talking to people, going door to door instead of hiring outside contractors to call people like Mr. Ecke is doing.

Our defense always has to be there. We still have to press and make them commit turnovers. We're going to try to get five-second calls and try to mess them up. Our defense always has to be a terror. We don't want to make anything easy for the other team.

As the ship calls increase, the truck calls will have to increase proportionately.

As the numbers of Japanese in California increased, there were increasing calls for Japanese to be excluded, as the Chinese had been excluded in 1882 with the Chinese Exclusion Act.

As soon as the draft was over we placed calls to him and his people trying to get him here in camp.

At that time, Attleboro Police also got a call from Sturdy Memorial Hospital about a man in the emergency room with stab wounds.

At some point, people just decide to stop hurting themselves. And they call the whole thing off.

Gwen Ifill

At public broadcasting, we call commercial broadcasting the dark side. We have the luxury of time, of not having those ever- looming commercial interruptions. We take ourselves pretty seriously. Some people say that's not a good thing. I think it's great.

Alan Greenspan

At present, the Social Security trustees estimate that the unfunded liability over the indefinite future to be $10.4 trillion, ... The shortfall in Medicare is calculated at several multiples of the one in Social Security.

At that time, none of us had even made a phone call outside the country, except perhaps to Canada.

Vladimir Putin

At a certain point, we saw the police cracking down on the Occupy Wall Street activists. I won't call the actions of police appropriate or inappropriate.

At most, you're looking at 300 calories and that's not really much for lunch, so you can eat it and an hour later you're gnawing the leg off your chair.

Eric Byrnes

At the last second, I heard Luis call for it. It's tough to get out of the way, but that's my job. I screwed up.

At the start of the season we were young. I don't call us young anymore. I think we've come a heck of a long way.

At this level, to have the guys that we have, at corner and safety and linebacker, every team doesn't have that. And then to have the caliber of guys; we've got guys that could go on other teams and start.

Conservatives have woken from a slumber and realized the government has grown exponentially. McCain has been an often-lonely voice calling for a brake on government spending and more fiscal sobriety.