Famous Quotes & Sayings

WITTICISM, n. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted, and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a "joke.

Shirley Manson

We're taking a hiatus, ... I don't know if we're calling it a day.

Mary Taylor

We're surprised by the number of calls we've gotten. We're taking a lot of reservations.

We all know about Venus and its runaway greenhouse effect. Pluto is a dynamic example of what we might call an anti-greenhouse effect. Nature likes to leave us with mysteries - and this was a big one.

Larry Scott

We all have seen matches turn on questionable calls. With all that's on the line in tennis these days, we felt we had to pursue every means possible to utilize technology to make sure that calls were accurate.

John Gay

There is a loud group of anti-immigration folks out there for whom this is the main issue they care about. They make a lot of noise, send e-mails and write and call their congressional representatives.

There is a lot of inertia in the small-business market, which relies on sales representatives to call them or visit.

Graeme Le Saux

The reasons for calling it a day were more rational. As a footballer it is not just about the playing a match, that was the easy bit.

Carine Roitfeld

The reason I call my book 'Irreverent' is because there were a lot of pictures that were very irreverent. Maybe I could call my book 'Forgiving' because maybe I made a lot of errors, too.

The race normally has about 5,600, 5,700. We had just under 3,200 today. We did receive a lot of phone calls leading up to the event. People were calling us thinking they had to run with masks, and do they need to get a tetanus shot before they come to the city.

The open person needs to tell us she's open and we need to call out screens. And two people are screening at the same time. We're still getting used to a new system.

The other guys had to step up for them. That's why they call it a team.

There is no lack of stockholder proposals objecting to the size of severance packages and calling for them to be reduced,

There is still some resistance in churches, there is a glass ceiling to calling women as senior pastors,

There is something very easy about women's friendships that you don't see as often with men. We all know examples of this, when women will just call each other up or drop a line, not with anything specific to say.

The Red Cross always responds to domestic fires. We have volunteers that are on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week. It's hard to image the sense of loss that some of these people feel. In this case, there were a lot of small children affected.

There could be some very subjective calls made. Hopefully, we don't have to make a call.

Two girls came outside with cell phones threatening to call the cops and the guys took off.

John Ratzenberger

Two days later I got a call that they wanted to try out the character for seven episodes. Eleven years and 22 Emmys later, Cliff was still sitting at that bar.

The Russians want to be an indispensable player in the Balkans. But they know they can only do that if they use their power wisely. They know that calling on Milosevic to cancel the second round is pointless, so they are holding fire until they can be more productive.

The rush to Indian call centers was driven by cost,

The saying goes that men wounded in the battlefield call out for their mothers. So spending on Mom will generally surpass that for Dad despite the aberration this year.

The Saudis vowed that production would be left unchanged despite the calls to cut production by the likes of Iran.

Jack Horner

The Rudyard project is actually a satellite thing for the Museum of the Rockies. We're calling it the Rudyard field station, and we're lending them lots and lots of specimens and all kinds of things.

I've told Greg that we probably won't be needing him between now and the end of the season and we left it that we'd call him if that changed.

I've seen tons of deals out here...we can call the police and if we don't have proof they can't do anything. So, we decided to so something about it.

I've wanted to pitch here since I was 5 years old. I have people calling all the time.

Jack Zipes

I've tried to show in my most recent book, the 'Irresistible Fairytale', that in order to talk about any genre, particularly what we call simple genre - a myth, a legend, an anecdote, a tall tale, and so on - we really have to understand something about the origin of stories all together.

I've never seen a game decided like that. That's ridiculous. The kids played their heart out. It shouldn't be taken away by a call from a ref. That's inexcusable in a big game like this. It should go into overtime, and let's play it out.

Jerome Bettis

I've never seen shy about eating. They don't call me 'The Bus' because I pass the plate.

Anthony Zerbe

I've never really been serious about my villainy. I don't have a master plan. I suppose my philosophy is: Every villain has a mother. For every cold-blooded killer on your screen, there's a little old lady somewhere who calls him 'sonny.'

Lawrence Eagleburger

it would be a close call in either case.

It would be nice if the state would call me and say, 'He's gravely ill, you might want to plan for a funeral,'