Famous Quotes & Sayings

Officially, I haven't received a phone call from Kansas City, and I'm not expecting one right now.

Monty Hall

Of course when I got to be a star on ""Let's Make a Deal,"" I started getting 20 calls a week. I would respond. My fee was zero. They liked my fee and they liked the job I did and I raised, in the last 50 years, I raised $800 million. And it's been a great ride.

Often the crews only realize that there are special requirements when they reach the scene, and have to call for heavy-duty equipment, costing extra time.

Often all it takes is a phone call to employers to get back pay. Because there is so little government enforcement in low-wage industries, many employers are counting on nobody to be there to stop them.

William Cowper

Oh for a closer walk with God, / A calm and heavenly frame; / A light to shine upon the road / That leads me to the Lamb!

(North Branford) played well. They're physical inside and we were looking for calls that we weren't going to get instead of just playing hard.

Steve McNair

Norm is a guy on game day, he really doesn't say much. The days before is when you really got to say, 'Hey Norm, just calm down.' I think it's exciting to him. He tells us, 'This is exciting.' We all should be excited. That's the type of guy he is.

Bob Black

Normally, when he wants to get someone elected, he calls me.

Bill Cowher

No, something even more diabolical. I call it 'The Immaculate Deception.' I can't reveal any details, but we'll run it on the first play of our first possession in the second quarter.

Normally if you are piloting out, all you do is you call us and say 'I'd like to proceed in this airspace,' ... He didn't do that.

O. Henry

Normally, I call the police station just about every Friday, Saturday and Sunday night to get people out of our parking lot.

Normally, I call a timeout in that situation. I am taking responsibility for that. I saw a transition and Sterling going, and that is his strength. It looked like he was going to be able to get to the hole, but it just did not happen. I should have called a timeout.

After what this team went through last year, to be 17-8 and one game away from playing in the state playoffs, I'm overwhelmed. All my kids are still here and they seem to be having fun. Heck, they even try to execute stuff now when I call out a play.

After Santa Barbara, everyone knew that we had to come out with a different level of intensity and a different level of focus that maybe we hadn't had. The Cal Poly players were kind of jawing at us before the game and got us fired up.

Romesh Gunesekera

The nationalist movement supported Sinhala by suppressing Tamil; there were competing nationalisms. It was a fundamental mistake to make parallel streams in education - or a calculated political gamble. Politicians were playing with it.

The national extraordinary condition was declared so that the people can remain calm and not panicking because the government is prepared to handle this in a national way,

The name used for it is mad-dogging. I like to call them teenage testosterone arguments.

Joseph Lowery

The Mothers in Iraq Call Us the Terrorists

The mother said, 'They call your son a hero, and my son is a hero,' ... I said, 'I know, but I just can't see it that way.' She said, 'I looked it up in the dictionary and a hero is an ordinary person doing an extraordinary job.' So I guess that's true.

Dick Cheney

A decision has to be made about whether or not we call for a vote, and that's something we will address.

Stu Jackson

A flagrant foul is unnecessary and excessive. And in my mind, that's what that was. It was an unnecessary play, and it was excessive in how hard he hit him. The referee did the right thing in calling a Flagrant 2.

Brett Butler

A female president - maybe they'd start calling it the Ova Office

A fair review of these telephone calls leads to the conclusion that these two men had no idea where this man Ibrahim was.

A final investment decision on the expansion will be made in the second half of this calendar year.

The old-school rule was, go to work and let them send you home. I disagree. If you have an infectious disease, don't come to work and make everyone else sick. Call in sick, but do it courteously. No matter what.

The Old Firm match is the only one in the world where the managers have to calm the interviewers down.

Bill Evans

After a particularly volatile year in 2005 for consumer sentiment, we may be entering steadier times in 2006. However, given households' high levels of debt and sensitivity to interest rates, this calm would be dramatically disturbed if interest rate concerns returned.

Philipp Meyer

After I finished college, I got a job on Wall Street as a derivatives trader, but after a couple years of it, I was calling in sick in order to work on my novel.

After I directed for the first time, I wanted to call every director I'd ever worked with and apologize. In television you are tasked with shooting 42 minutes, or whatever, in eight days. That's not a lot of time.

After (Hurricane Katrina), we want the local community (to know they) can call on us.

Philip Massinger

And what, in a mean man, I should call folly,/ Is in your majesty remarkable wisdom.

Sergio Marchionne

another milestone in our strategy that calls for targeted alliances aimed at sharing financial and industrial resources on new products and platforms.

Doc Rivers

Another calm night. I think we deserved that one after the last two times that we played them. We felt we stole this one tonight. But we felt they stole two from us, so we owed them that one.