Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hopefully, this was a wake-up call for us. I told their coach they deserved to win this game. I think we were looking past them.

The owner calls every Monday 9 a.m. sharp. The cafeteria closes for lunch at 2. The washroom is down the hall to the left. And, oh yeah, Vince Carter wants to be traded.

There is an increasing willingness to take every expense short of salary and call it non-recurring.

There is an increasing trend to have the call center representative portray the same image that the company is out there marketing.

Jaromir Jagr

When they're calling everything, you have to be smarter. It seems like every time we lose, it's because we've screwed up and we make stupid plays.

When they realize how much work is involved, they usually shy away. I think it's a great thing that Cal has proved it can be done.

When they get each other going they are fun to watch. Dylan had a great game. He controlled the tempo of the game and he was making the calls out there all night. Lucas is just a gym rat. As he goes the team goes a lot of time. If he can have a good game we usually win.

Under Prop. 34, serious candidates for governor in California need to have one of two things. Tens of millions of dollars of their own money or tens of thousands of their own supporters.

Unless this market calms down quickly, you're looking at $4 gas.

We may have been a little inebriated if you want to call it that.

We make them feel welcome, ... Here, they have a mountain they can call their own.

We looked at her, this hotel clerk, and we said, 'OK, if you want to call the police, call the police. You think they're going to come over here to help you out?' She started putting on her thinking cap real fast and she said 'OK, go on in,' ... She could've got shot like that, trying to keep people out.

We made the wrong call on the field for the protection. We could have handled the guy off the right edge with the right call.

We made some mistakes. There's only so many timeouts you can take to try to calm (the players) down, to get them to focus.

Of John Le Carre's books, I've only read 'The Spy Who Came In From The Cold,' and I haven't read anything by Graham Greene, but I've heard a great deal about how 'Your Republic Is Calling You' reminded English readers of those two writers. I don't really have any particular interest in Cold War spy novels.

When I wrote 'Your Republic Is Calling You,' it was Franz Kafka's writing that I had most in mind, and James Joyce's 'Ulysses.' Entirely out of the blue, Kafka's characters receive an order to go somewhere, and when they try to comply, they never quite manage it. Ki-yong in 'Your Republic Is Calling You' is precisely that sort of character.

When the moon covers the sun, we have a solar eclipse. What do you call it when birds do that?

Kimberley Nixon

If something doesn't work in my house - TV, phone, stereo, anything - I just call my dad, and he knows the answer.

Jamie Court

Hurricane Katrina will only increase the probability of profiteering and should be a wakeup call to legislators.

Chuck D.

Hurricane Katrina was a wake-up call to this country . . . It wakes us up to the fact that our God is sovereign and we should be constantly in a state of repentance humbly seeking God's favor.

Dennis Hastert

Hurricane Katrina is a wake-up call for our nation. It reminded us of the power of Mother Nature and the need for federal, state and local governments to always be prepared... As we go about rebuilding the Gulf Coast, we welcome the president's proposals as well as the thoughts of state and local leaders.

Rex Walters

I actually called coach Doherty, coach Williams and Pat Riley to call on my behalf,

He was just calling to congratulate me on getting to play. We just kind of swapped stories.

He was just as calm as can be.

Michael Freeman

He wasn't very confident of his IDs, ... In fact, I wouldn't go so far as to call them identifications.

He was ready to play, but we decided to move in a different direction. We saw it as an opportunity to get a defenseman of the same caliber and at the same time pick up a young forward.

David Wright

He was phenomenal in spring training and I don't expect anything different. He's very cool, calm and collected.

He was going to call in sick today but he wanted to make more money for the holidays.

He was getting a barrage of calls from May to late July -- phone calls, e-mails, text messages. It was endless. And my phone was ringing off the wall as well.

He was excited first to be in there. We had four plays there where things weren't going real well, and he just said, 'Let's calm down, I need to calm down myself, and let's go out and play.' From that point on it was just like having Mark in there.

He was integral in the whole thing because he's the one who heard us trying to call through on the radio. He definitely deserves a lot of credit.

Jacques Chirac

it is possible that in the future we will call upon those of goodwill to help us strengthen the peace process.

Christina Hendricks

It is so exciting to get a phone call saying you're going to be working on a Disney film.