Famous Quotes & Sayings

Or it could be by mere chance he got a phone call and decided to leave the area.

Offensive line, period, it's just the position that has so many plays, so many different calls you have to make, ... I really didn't think that it was gonna come as quick as it came or I was gonna get the opportunity I got. But I always was prepared for what was gonna happen.

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.

(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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Kenny Smith

The most improved player in the whole Valley. No doubt about it. It was all guts. He's not a kid that you sit down and watch lots of film with because he is what I would call not the most cerebral player, but he's the toughest player.

Rhea Perlman

The most important element of the foster care system is getting kids out of foster care and into a permanent placement so they don't have to spend their entire childhoods in courtrooms, wondering if they will ever have a place to call home.

Actually, there's not as much outsourcing as many companies would realistically hope. A lot of nightmarish scenarios have emerged from outsourcing, with some companies opting to move their call centers back in-house, due to customer complaints.

Jason Newsted

A couple years ago I was going to back off and actually thought about retiring, but it keeps calling me back, and I'm going to keep going back as long as it calls me. I really think it has something to do with the good vibes that I feel I've spread through my performance and through the time that I've spent with fans.

Shawn Marion

A couple of them were fouls. The referees called the game to their momentum. They had the momentum, so they gave them the calls they liked. But more power to him.

A critical downside of the investment environment is corruption -- what we used to call out of concern for diplomatic niceties 'transparency'.

subscription-based services do not call into play the issue of indecency.

Some teachers still call us. A lot of teachers call and write and send cards.

Ella Wilcox

Some souls there are that needs must tasteOf wrong, ere choosing right;We should not call those years a wasteWhich led us to the light.