Famous Quotes & Sayings

We're seeing a shift in the federal government's understanding of the gravity of the situation facing California. The governor's forcing all parties to take responsibility to ensure California does not have its own version of Katrina.

We're looking forward to going to the 'Mecca'; that's what we call East Aurora's gym.

We're looking forward to a crackerjack weekend. But you may want to call me Tuesday to see if I'm still smiling.

We're looking for a slingshot effect. If we win this primary or have a very, very strong showing, the Washington caucus-goers will be reluctant to reject the will of the people. It will be a signal to California and the rest of the country that he is viable and this thing is not wrapped up.

We're looking for a guy to play in the third pair. Be safe. Be solid. And that's really Cory's calling card.

Kelly Brown

We've got more (volunteers ) in the pipeline. We are aggressively calling (the national chapter) to tell them we have people (ready) to go.

We've got more clothes than Wal-Mart. We call it the big rummage give away instead of sale.

Michael Chertoff

We've got hundreds of thousands of people who have been displaced, ... This is unprecedented in this country's history and it's going to call for the kind of relief effort which we've been able to mount overseas, and we're now going to have to mount at home.

We've got great officials in this league. Now it's up to us to train them so that penalties are the same in every game. I think we need to be clear that it's impossible for every crew to get every call right. But we need to be sure that going into the game every official's definition of a penalty is the same. Judgment may overshadow that at times, but I know our guys will try to do it. We're going to win the battle.

Jimmy Johnson

We've got a shot at a meteoric start to the season. I've always run pretty well at California and Las Vegas.

We've got a record number of calls from interested retail investors and people looking for work.

We've tried to make it really easy to complain. Consumers can either call a toll-free number or go to the Web site. All they need is a name and phone number and the time and date of the call, and we can follow up.

Christopher Dodd

We've tried to discount what I call the 'Y2K survivalist mentality' -- somehow that this is going to be Armageddon,

Billy Ray Cyrus

Each person has their own calling on this Earth.

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.

Typically an immigrant comes, takes whatever job he can find, and saves every penny with the goal to be able to open a business. And all the Southeast is what I call virgin territory.

Tyler hit a big shot. He was the second option, but that wasn't the shot (designed). I'm just glad it ended up in his hands. He was calm enough to put up a good shot.

To make multiple phone calls is not only a burden, it is financially stressful.

Sendhil Mullainathan

Time can be dissected easily: an hour can be cut up in many ways. Fifteen minutes on this memo, a five-minute walk to another meeting, 30 minutes at that meeting and then 10 minutes debriefing. Oh, and maybe a quick phone call on the walk to that meeting. The busy are expert at dissection: that's how they make it all fit.

Three calls were received in the space of three minutes.

John Harington

Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it treason

John Harington

Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it treason

Travis is the fastest rising player in California maybe.

Yeah, I was fouled (as I was about to shoot). I got the fake down and I knew I was about to shoot but they didn't call it.

You know what Southern Illinois is going to try to do to you. You just don't know what the referees are going to call on a consistent basis.

Theresa May

You know what some people call us: the nasty party.

Bob Graham

You know what my grandchildren call me? 'Doodle,' ... And when I'm really good, they call me 'Super Doodle.'

Lisa Edelstein

You know what, I've always been a smarty-pants, and the only thing that goes wrong now is that people know that I play a doctor on TV and so they quickly call me out on the fact that I really think I am a doctor.

You know there are powerful interests here -- we call them K Street lobbyists -- that are very prone to defending this sort of things, ... There's big fees for defending them on the Hill.

Bill Clinton

You know, everybody makes mistakes when they are president. I mean, you can't make as many calls as you have to make without messing up once in awhile. The thing we ought to be focused on is what is the right thing to do now.

When I first did Woodstock many, many years ago, my initial impression when I went to California to look at the rushes . . . was I was appalled. I knew the performance was OK, but the visual of the crowd walking away in the mud and the way they cut it together was kind of depressing,

We needed that wakeup call to get us back into it. We came out and played pretty good at Hamilton (in the regional championship). This game just topped it off.

Joel Fuhrman

We need to take vegetables out of the role of side dish, even in low-fat, vegetarian diets, whose calories are generally derived mainly from grains and other starches.