Famous Quotes & Sayings

For everyone I know who is a writer, there was some awkward time in their lives when they had to learn to call themselves one.

For as much as the season ended on a sour note, we're able to look back overall and call it a success. We came on really strong in the second half and won some matches that we lost a year ago.

For a scene that should have been chaotic, it was quite calm under the circumstances,

Follow up two or three times. They'll remember your name when it's time to call back.

Skip Bertman

Football is woven into the fabric of society here, and to play next weekend would be great medicine for an ailing state, ... Some people might call it insensitive, but sometimes you need a distraction. You need a game.

Ewan McGregor

For all of the hurtling towards climate change, there's also a lot more understanding of it than there was when we were kids. They don't call environmentalists tree huggers any more, so there's hope!

Robert Rosenberg

For a call to a developed country, an extra 25 cents a minute certainly seems onerous.

For about three years now, California has been relying on construction as its major source of job growth.

The number of calls I got about class size diminished greatly after the first few days (of the school year).

It's too late to call it quits now. I'm going to make sure that none of my guys give up, and that's the most important thing.

Rob Enderle

It's too early to call it, ... The software industry is going to be seeing a lot of changes for some time -- that's the only guarantee at this point.

It's the wild, wild West of the securities area, I wouldn't even call it an industry there.

It's the type of thing where we get one call from one unit, and the next thing you know it's explosive.

It's not the fault of the Nassau County police. Overall, if we call them they respond. But our issue is loss of presence.

Kyle Busch

It's not that there were some (penalties called) that were or were not necessary. It's just that they are judgment calls that may or may not need to be made and they made them. We just have to go on. We finished where we finished.

It's one of the better areas. We don't get many calls out there at all.

It's not what we call extensive human-to-human transmission ... It doesn't mean mutation.

Gary Cole

It's not what we call a large fire, but there were 11 structures saved that were in the line of the fire.

It's not unusual for us to change a game or start a new one. Typically, every game has a life span, and you have what we call game fatigue. We thought it was a good time for a new game that looks and plays differently.

It's not too early to call it a big game. They're a big team in our league. It's a chance for us to step up into the upper echelon of our league.

Johan Bruyneel

It's not easy to plan but I think we calculated it well and the guys have confidence that their form is coming.

It's not difficult. We're going to class and talking to them or calling them into our office and talking to them one-on-one. It's actually kind of been fun. It's been a very interesting year.

It?s the calm before the storm, so to speak, because 80 percent of the super bowl, we will take over the last day and a half.

It started to not be cool to be heard calling her Mommy in the street, so I started calling her Sister Sue.

It's the mind that has to stay so calm and so focused. Not to see those five rings on the wall and say, 'Oh my God, it's the Olympics.' You've got to keep the parameters really tight and focus on the job that has to be done. It's not so easy.

It's the preseason. You make mistakes, you learn, you move on. That's why they call it preseason. I'm going to get better.

Bob Davidson

It's the plate umpires call, which is me. It's my call and I had him leaving early and called him out.

It's the pinnacle of his program, and it has really worked out for us. We call it meritocracy. More than anything this summer, it taught us how to compete, that going after each other in practice is an OK thing to do.

Tim Nelson

It's the phone call that you run through your mind that you hope you never get. I tried to treat him like a son. We had a lot of fun together.

Marlene Dietrich

It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.

It's looking pretty good. The storm has moved on to the coast, Southern California - past us.

Michael Vick

It's kind of hard to calm yourself down. But, you know, you have got to keep your composure in a game like this and understand the big picture. And that is just winning the football game. It's not about pushing and shoving and getting 15-yard penalties, because that doesn't prove anything.

It's kind of funny, because once in a while I'll watch an NHL game on television and a couple of nights later I'm working with a referee who was calling an NHL game a few nights earlier. I'm having a lot of fun doing it right now. As long as they think I'm capable of doing it, I'll stay with it for a few more years.