Famous Quotes & Sayings

Read the material carefully. If you find it's unfavorable, it's worth a phone call to issuers to tell them you're going to leave if they can't match the old terms.

(Randy) knows it starts with his offensive line. He made great calls thanks to the line. Mt. Pleasant started blitzing and they were able to pick it up and let Randy make plays.

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.

Our earnings are reflective of the Southern California economy. It's doing well, and we're well positioned for the future.

Our employees increasingly are telling us -- via e-mail, telephone calls and letters -- that they want to understand our offer. They want to know what UPS put on the table. So we're going to tell them.

Our (customer service) call volume has been lower than the typical call volume.

Other editors said they get calls from readers who are hearing stories from returning troops of the good things they have accomplished while there, and readers find that at odds with the generally gloomy portrayal in the papers of what's going on in Iraq.

Our announcement today is really a call for participation. We're hoping for more funding from other organizations.

People return your phone calls and your e-mails, and they speak to you and speak to you nicely.

People say we're a jazz group. But there's no way I would ever call myself a jazz drummer. The only thing that's jazz about us is keeping the need to move forward and evolve.

People shouldn't be disappointed by the studies. It's just a wake-up call that simply reducing your total dietary fat is not enough.

People should call us and let us know if they're going to do some burning. That way we know what's going on if we get fire calls.

Richard Harris

People realize that what we have here is a rare scene, a preservation of our culture. And so they come from all over Southern California to be a part of it.

People plan their marriages around it. The calls start coming in around the first of the year from people wanting to make plans. I've had brides-to-be tell me that that's why they're asking, because they don't want to plan their wedding the same weekend as the opener. And that's not something that's just happened once. It happens often enough every year that it sticks with you.

Jeffrey Tate

People still call me the eternal amateur. After all, professionals are supposed to be able to conduct everything. But I can't unless I feel some connection inside. Conducting is not an end in itself for me.