Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve McQueen

When I did 'The Great Escape,' I kept thinking, 'If they were making a movie of my life, that's what they'd call it - the great escape.'

Steve Lacy

They call me before they go into production, when they have a prototype, and they call legitimate saxophonists, too. As opposed to the other kind.

John Doolittle

This sounds like more of the same from heavy-handed U.N. bureaucrats, ... Whether they call it a 'board' or a 'forum' it's clear that the ultimate goal of the U.N. is still to wrest control of the Internet.

Cyril Connolly

Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first call promising.

Ramon Rodriguez

To be honest, a lot of ride-alongs are not that great. There might be one or two calls on the radio - not a lot - depending on what time you go.

Toward the end of the sixth round, a lot of teams started calling and telling me they had picks left and they would like to get me if they could.

Robert Patterson

to take a deep breath, to re-examine who they are, to reconsider God's calling -- unique calling -- to a congregation to serve in a community.

Gerald Wallace

This one really hurts. We played as hard as we could and we gave it all we could. There were just some key possessions and some calls and things that didn't go our way. Guys stepped in and did what they could do. We fought the game all the way down to maybe the last minute-and-a-half and things just got out of hand.

Nick Saban

What people do on the field is kind of your calling card in terms of the quality of work. When he was a defensive coordinator at Jacksonville and Pittsburgh, they did some pretty quality work. They had top-line defensive teams. He did it in different situations featuring different types of players. That will be helpful to us.

Oscar Wilde

What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities.

Jose Carreras

What originates everything are the emotions, the feelings, what we call soul. Then the brain commands these feelings to the voice. The voice is just the vehicle; it's the very last step in the chain.

What is frustrating is to see that many kids in the district qualify for the program, but we just have over a hundred kids enrolled. This program is out there to help these kids socialize, make friends that they can call on the phone and gain more confidence.

Bill Cowher

What Jerome gives you down in the red zone is how we are using him. On a 4th-and-1 you have a guy like Jerome Bettis. It's an easy call to make really. Down around the goal line he has a great skill for that.

What I would call that is essentially unchanged. It looks like a big number because of the size of the area.

What I will call the new NationsBank will serve 100 million Americans, 40 percent of our country and some of the finest states in this country. So that is why we did it." ()

Matt Lauer

We fine broadcasters for using four-letter words, we say that's offensive. So is it offensive to call for the assassination of a world leader?

We got a lot of calls in and we had few things we worked on their shifting and motioning, ... But we studied those guys all week and put together a game plan where we could be successful. As you could see, it turned out the way we planned.

We got a lot of calls about the trash. But our hauling companies got even more calls.

We got a call (Thursday), and we talked to the kids and their parents (Friday) morning to confirm it. We had to get a schedule from the league to confirm the dates they played and then we self-reported ourselves to the AHSAA.

We got a call that the church was on fire and we just left coming that way to the church and it was just shocking to us when we got there and saw it.

We got a call hours before the fight and he said he had a family situation.

We got a call from one of our customers to come and trim her trees. This woman got a notice on her door that TXU would be cutting her trees, so she called us to come in and trim her two red oaks before they did.

We got a call from her grandmother that Bowser had been in some sort of accident.

We got a call Friday from a woman who has extensive family ties in Canada, and we sent out five visitor guides to her family in Canada. They will be coming to St. Charles in the summer.

We got a call around 4 a.m. (Wednesday) from the driver that he was about 60 miles north of Memphis and would be on his way.

We got 25 to 27 people out alive. And then we didn't hear any more screaming, any more people calling for help.

We give out real telephone numbers to all subscribers, so users can make voice calls to a friend's cell phone from their computer. Not only going from video to voice, but also completely off of the video network, a user can place a call from a cell phone to a video number and have a VOIP call.

We have about $20 million in what I would call soft commitments.

We have 33 officers divided into four districts trying to cover everything 24/7. You do the math. They're spread very thin. We don't always have the resources where you can call and get someone out there within a short period of time.

Daniel Briere

Throughout the season we were expecting the calls to go down, the referees to stop calling the new rules. They kept it going all year.

Mike Smith

We don't see any of these girls gripe when the (referee's) call doesn't go their way. This team right here? These are talented kids. And this is what happens when you have talented kids with character.

We don't really call it retirement. I call it out of work.

Joe Borowski

You hear stuff all the time out there, ... I'm not going to use that as an excuse. You hear worse things than maybe somebody trying to call time. It might not help, but it's not the reason why everything happened the way it did.