Famous Quotes & Sayings

Really, in her eyes, she's got some great schools to choose from and I don't really think she can go wrong with any of them and I just think that obviously she's got a piece of mind of what she wants to do or otherwise she wouldn't want to call the press conference. I think she's ready to make a decision and move on and not feel like she's misleading anyone.

John Ridley

Reactionary conservatives are smiling through the racial apocalypse. To them, race baiting is a joke, as 'humorist' Rush Limbaugh will tell you when he's calling Mexicans 'stupid.' Or it's a matter of semantics when they claim that Sonia Sotomayor is a 'racialist' which, far as I can tell, is the smooth jazz version of being a racist.

Eliot Spitzer

Proponents cleverly wrapped the word reform around the amendment, ... But calling a mule a thoroughbred doesn't make it one.

Susan Collins

Progress has been halting, a trail of missteps that calls into question what has been done during the last four years, and that continues to plague the recovery even today.

Cris Collinsworth

Probably more than anything else, he needs a wife, honestly, ... If he had a wife, the minute he takes after Donovan McNabb, his wife would have said, 'What are you doing? Pick up the telephone and call him and apologize. You're so out of line.'

Martin Parr

Personally, I don't take holidays; I go on trips. My idea of relaxing is taking a trip that isn't commissioned. I'll work just as hard, but without that nagging pressure of fulfilling a commission. Now that's what I call a holiday.

People trapped are calling out. They are knocking. The trouble is: time is going by.

People think that ambulances show up automatically. But we're the ones who call and send them.

People think our call center is in India because of the ethnic sound of a rep's voice, but it's in Canada.

Our shelters are always putting out calls for sheets and towels.

Our team was great during the summer. People call it the Lake Washington nation because we all hangout together and workout.

Ours is all grassroots. We encourage our members to send faxes and make calls to their senators.

Ours is a grass-roots effort, ... We're talking to people, going door to door instead of hiring outside contractors to call people like Mr. Ecke is doing.

Our defense always has to be there. We still have to press and make them commit turnovers. We're going to try to get five-second calls and try to mess them up. Our defense always has to be a terror. We don't want to make anything easy for the other team.

Our employees increasingly are telling us -- via e-mail, telephone calls and letters -- that they want to understand our offer. They want to know what UPS put on the table. So we're going to tell them.

Our (customer service) call volume has been lower than the typical call volume.

Other editors said they get calls from readers who are hearing stories from returning troops of the good things they have accomplished while there, and readers find that at odds with the generally gloomy portrayal in the papers of what's going on in Iraq.

Our announcement today is really a call for participation. We're hoping for more funding from other organizations.

People return your phone calls and your e-mails, and they speak to you and speak to you nicely.

People say we're a jazz group. But there's no way I would ever call myself a jazz drummer. The only thing that's jazz about us is keeping the need to move forward and evolve.

People shouldn't be disappointed by the studies. It's just a wake-up call that simply reducing your total dietary fat is not enough.

People should call us and let us know if they're going to do some burning. That way we know what's going on if we get fire calls.

People plan their marriages around it. The calls start coming in around the first of the year from people wanting to make plans. I've had brides-to-be tell me that that's why they're asking, because they don't want to plan their wedding the same weekend as the opener. And that's not something that's just happened once. It happens often enough every year that it sticks with you.

Jeffrey Tate

People still call me the eternal amateur. After all, professionals are supposed to be able to conduct everything. But I can't unless I feel some connection inside. Conducting is not an end in itself for me.

Gary Karr

People can go to senior centers, people can call a local number, or go to a local event to get the help they need, ... Because it is clear that some will need expert assistance. We just can't rely on press releases out of Washington to do it.

People don't always realize they're running a business. You're actually on call 24/7. If a pipe breaks, your tenant will need to be able to contact you.

Sendhil Mullainathan

People go shopping, we spend on so many things, and we just don't know. We don't know the prices of things. But gasoline, even when you're not buying, it's staring you in the face. Psychologists call this 'salience.'

People call me the monster, the demon, the devil. I'll be all that.

Terry Anderson

People call me a victim of Lebanon, say I lost seven years of my life, ... I didn't lose them -- I lived them.

People call me an overachiever. Any project I take on, I work as if I was a professional.

Taryn Manning

People call me a human jukebox because I know so many songs. Music's always been so huge in my life, just putting the radio on and learning songs.

Robert Boyle

People call a number to report that they're parking on the street.

Dennis Hastert

On this historic day, it is a high honor and rather humbling that a great number of my colleagues have come to me and urged me to lead the House into the 21st century, ... It is a calling that I have not sought. However, it is a duty that I cannot ignore.