Famous Quotes & Sayings

Norm Coleman

We have what we would call the smoking gun.

Chan Gailey

We have what we call a 24-hour rule. If you win a game, you have 24 hours to enjoy it. If you lose, you have 24 hours to get over the disappointment and go on to the next thing. We're excited to be here.

We have what I call a knee-jerk reaction.

We have warned and continue to warn against calls for the division of Iraq, which come up now and then, calling for sectarian rights or minority freedoms.

We have volunteers coming in a couple nights a week already to be making phone calls and talking to voters.

We came out on one and two doubles and didn't play within our game. We calmed down and played within our game in singles. We have pushed Stanford more than any other team and we will just get more confident in the next month and a half.

We came out in the third and the three kind of got us going. I was calm at halftime and just told the girls that they weren't playing.

Richard Dean Anderson

We're loosely calling it The River Project, but hopefully the pieces that we put together will be educational pieces that will throw some light on the situation as to what kind of jeopardy may be surrounding our great rivers.

Samantha Power

Americans have long trusted the views of Democrats on the environment, the economy, education, and health care, but national security is the one matter about which Republicans have maintained what political scientists call 'issue ownership.'

Roger Stone

Big brother listening in on your phone calls - I got a problem with that.

Rosamund Pike

I find I clash sometimes with people who like to plan things and book you in for lunch. I'd rather someone call me up, say: 'Are you free tonight and d'you wanna go to the roller-disco? Or play pool?'

Martha Beck

The great power of separating the watching mind from the thinking mind is that the watching mind is innately loving. Some call this part of the psyche the 'compassionate witness.' Sharing our difficult feelings with a compassionate witness is the crucial step that heals the infinite small wounds inflicted upon the soul by everyday life.

Marlee Matlin

By the time I was a teenager, my desire to be daring and taste everything got me in trouble. Too often, I was in the company of kids my parents would call 'wild.'

Michael Arrington

If a tech journalist needs financial security before doing what their conscience dictates, I'm not sure they should be calling themselves journalists at all.

Patrick Nielsen Hayden

There's a latter-day notion that artsy hippie types in the 1960s disdained the space program. Not in my experience they didn't. We watched, transfixed with reverence, not even making rude remarks about President Nixon during his phone call to the astronauts.

Patrick Ness

How you leave the reader is so important - not the climax; I call it the 'exit feeling'.

A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.

Marcus Samuelsson

Children want to mimic adults. They notice when you choose to prepare fresh vegetables over calling in another pizza pie for dinner. They will see that food made with love and care outweighs going through the drive-through window.

Marissa Jaret Winokur

My God, what did I do before Facebook? I guess I had to call people and see how they're doing! Now I can just read a post and call when in trouble.

Marissa Jaret Winokur

The truth is if you can eat just a serving size, you can eat anything. But we all know how those harmless treats can call out your name all night long, and rationalizing in the middle of the night is very easy.

Patti Stanger

It's hard for women who make a lot of money and make decisions all day long, then they have to come home and be 'Stupid Sally.' Men need respect, and they need to know that they can lead in the relationship, so even if they don't make the most money they need to be able to call the shots.

Padgett Powell

I've sat down and written with a more or less supportable or insupportable idea or thing to say, and it ends. When it's not 200 pages, people want to call it a story. I guess they're entitled to do that. In my view, if it were a supportable idea, it would have gone 200 pages, and it didn't.

Padgett Powell

I am writing a book more improbable than 'The Interrogative Mood' that I call 'Manifesto'. It's two guys talking who speak artificially conveniently.

Pat Conroy

Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.

We hadn't planned to come to New Orleans but when the call went out, we responded in force.

We have three medalists out of what essentially people would call our JV team. They didn't run like that today.

Devin Aromashodu

We have the same phone service. So he can always call me for free.

Michelle Ryan

We were getting five, six phone calls an hour going, 'Oh my God, you're closing?'

We were frustrated with a few of the calls that were made. But we understand that when you go on the road that's part of the game.

We were shocked, you know, but we knew that someday it could happen. Now they're calling people all over.

We had a lot of play calls for Chris and were trying to get him the ball, but they played great defense. Every time Chris got the ball, they were right in his face, so he really couldn't get anything off.

Lou Holtz

We had a lot of people call us. And a lot of people we played, they were all the sudden using it the next year.

We had a lot of good candidates, including some from the mainland that we did long-distance calls with. We had a few people in-house who are very good with a lot of experience. Dan kind of tied the whole package together.