Famous Quotes & Sayings

James Jones

I ran around the back and was calling for my daddy-in-law. Then I tried to see if I could get him out through the front, but I couldn't do nothing because there was too much smoke. I was scared. He was still trapped in there.

If you set off a slide you won't be arrested. Call it in to non-emergency dispatch, that way resources aren't wasted.

Hugh Johnson

If you separate out all the sectors of the market, it's no longer the case that technology is the most overvalued sector of the market, health care and energy actually carry higher valuations than technology now. So we are starting to get the levels overall in technology that really make some sense. And interestingly enough, if you take it even further, if you go to the individual stocks, stocks like Sun, Cisco, Texas Instruments, Oracle -- great names, they're starting to get to levels which, again, don't call them cheap, but call them cheaper and interesting,

Charles Dickens

If your governor don't prove a alleybi, he'll be what the Italians call reg'larly flummoxed

Sibel Kekilli

If you move to Canada, after a few years you call yourself Canadian. In Germany, it's difficult to belong.

David Burnett

If you want a reflective sign that will be visible day or night, call us,

Stephen Levine

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Wally Buono

If you want to win, you make calls like that. If you worry about the consequences, you keep on losing.

If you write something that allows somebody to copy stuff later on, you could be jailed. This is a wake-up call for programmers.

Caitlyn Jenner

If you want to call me names, make jokes and doubt my intentions, go ahead, because the reality is I can take it.

Paul Davis

If you want to call it a must-win, that's what it is.

Bob Costas

I get a call that says 'Michelle Kwan has withdrawn from the Olympics' and at that point I was thinking 'Wait, what Olympics am I at? Lillehammer? Sarajevo?' and the next thing I know, 45 minutes later I'm interviewing Michelle.

Paul Tsongas

In my time it was the Kennedy call to public service in the Third World. Had there been no Peace Corps, my life would have been radically different.

In my life as an artist, I follow what I call my 'inner directive' because you can never predict what the world is going to do. You can never predict how people are going to respond to what you do. What I have to do is just trust what's sending me down a road of creative inquiry is important to me and somehow that will make it into a piece of work that is important to others.

Maria Semple

I never understood the concept of a fluffy summer read. For me, summer reading means beaches, long train rides and layovers in foreign airports. All of which call for escaping into really long books.

Edward Hirsch

In every culture, in every language, there is expressive play, expressive word play; there's language use to different purposes that we would call poetry.

In 2005, I was the first member of Congress to introduce legislation calling for an immediate withdrawal of our troops from Iraq.

David Myers

In 2004, with many hurricanes in Florida, I think we weren't quite prepared for the volume of calls we received, especially from customers in need of temporary call center facilities.

Kirk Talley

In 2003 the blackmail started. He started calling me and first said he was a private investigator. I quickly saw that he wasn't, that it was just a scheme to get money out of me. So, I went to the authorities and got them involved because I knew if I paid him, he'd be back in a month. I knew I wasn't going to do that the rest of my life.

In 30 seconds, we went from getting ready to call the MPs to everyone shaking hands.

I had a woman call me this morning in tears because her daughter was named Katrina, ... and she was traumatized practically to the point where she wouldn't go out of the house.

I had conference calls with the crew every morning, ... I mean, our jobs are high risk, always, but after seeing all the Hurricane Katrina footage, well, it can make you worry.

I guess you could call it gut-check time. I had lost all confidence in my putting, and on the PGA Tour, that's what it always comes down to.

Paul Tracy

I guess you can't call this single-car qualifying if there are two cars on the track at the same time. It's frustrating.

Carly Fiorina

The highest calling of leadership is to unlock the potential of others.

James Hillman

Calling can refer not only to ways of doing - meaning work - but also to ways of being.

Jaron Lanier

If you get deep enough, you get trapped. Stop calling yourself a user. You are being used.

Kyle Kinane

I'm hardly a known name, but I don't want to go, like, 'Oh, people call me a storyteller comedian, let me just go up and just talk about my day.' I don't want that to happen.

Kyle Kinane

I try to stay away from calling people nerds or whatever, because I've got my own fetishes and interests.

Joel Kinnaman

Have you seen these Japanese hospital droids, or humanoids, or whatever they call it? They've perfected the skin, and the skin looks so real. They have these motors between the eyes for when they smile. It's just mind-blowing.

J. C. Ryle

Sanctification is that inward spiritual work which the Lord Jesus Christ works in a man by the Holy Spirit when He calls him to be a true believer. He not only washes him from his sins in His own blood, but He also separates him from his natural love of sin and the world, puts a new principle in his heart and makes him practically godly in life.

Slobodan Milosevic

I cannot call my next witness. I cannot sit here any longer. Everybody knows I have been coming here with great difficulty.

I can certainly tell you there were a great deal of calls after those two cases were announced. After this one you are my first call.