Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marcus Garvey

I read "Up From Slavery" and then my dream -- if I may so call it -- of being a race leader dawned.

I plan to call in the morning and see if I can get an emergency hearing.

I pitched for 30 years and have coached for 30 years and have never been ejected from a game, but I was as mad at that no-call as any call we've been involved with in a long time.

By historical comparison, there's not an economist on the street that can call housing weak right now.

Rene Russo

By high school, I was already tall - 5-foot-8 - and one day I made the mistake of wearing green tights. The football players all started calling me the Jolly Green Giant.

John George

Clearly our community is feeling the impact of the decreased size of the police force. When you call and the police have to come, it can take 45 minutes. It's not their fault; they're not properly staffed. I think the police are outstanding in the way they respond to critical situations, but they can't respond to normal crimes.

Michael Brown

Clearly on the conference calls that was being discussed, Max Mayfield made that clear to everyone.

Ben Bernanke

Clear communication is always important in central banking, but it can be especially important when economic conditions call for further policy stimulus but the policy rate is already at its effective lower bound.

Clean it up. Immediately start calling the credit card companies. Get involved. Don't be passive with this.

Clark and Cullen have proven they are good at making governments work. No one will be in a hurry to call an early election.

Daniel Ortega

Civil rights in reverse is what I call it. What about our civil rights?

(City clerk) Celia (Drayfahl) can call the Iowa League tomorrow.

John Armstrong

I'm kind of glad we had a game like this without having to suffer a defeat. But it's a wake-up call when these kids understand that it's not going to get any easier, it's going to get tougher.

Brent Sutter

I'm kinda sitting here wondering what is a call and what isn't now.

Keith Stanfield

I'm from Victorville - it's about an hour-and-a-half away from Los Angeles, up in the desert. They call it Victimville because it's kind of violent. It's a beautiful place, though. It's quiet.

Sarah Parker

I'm overjoyed to be able to officially call HBO my creative home,

Denzel Washington

I'm on a plane tonight. No partying tonight. I gotta hit it, I gotta do what I gotta do so I can do what I want to do. I gotta work. They call it show business.

I'm in the middle, with roof damage, a fence ... the list goes on. Everyone is just so overwhelmed. It's just really depressing to see this town you call your home and 80 percent of it is destroyed.

I'm just going to go and get some work done down there and wait for the call to come back. I'm going to play (Friday) and see how I feel and maybe play Saturday.

Brooks Bollinger

I'm just going out to try and execute the plays that they call with knowing that I have an understanding of how to manage a football game and what I need to do to help the team win. I'm not trying to make it into rocket science.

I'm just hoping the WNBA calls her and tries to get her out of school early. She is an incredible talent.

I'm just doing the things that I need to do to win. Sometimes it might call for me to make more shots.

I met with several public company CEOs to learn about their experiences of going public and listened to as many earnings calls as I possibly could.

I'm fixing supper -- let me call you back.

I'm so nice to telemarketers when they call now. I usually tell them I'm not interested, but I'm a lot kinder about it than I used to be.

If nothing is done to ensure the press is free to do its work, these elections will take place in a climate of intimidation. If the government wants the world to say the elections were free, fair and transparent, it should heed our call for a change in attitude. The Media Centre recently set up to monitor and punish the foreign press is utterly illegitimate and should be disbanded.

If Koizumi wins, his party is not going to be the old LDP, ... Koizumi has become able to call the shots and in the future, no matter who is prime minister, the back benchers will be hesitant about defying policy made by the leadership.

John McCallum

If Nafta is called into question by U.S. action, it calls for us to diversify our trade and investment relations. On the Chinese side I am sure there will be receptivity.

If my daughter shows up at your house with a pot pipe, I expect you to call me, as uncomfortable as it may be.

Dave Checketts

If my children call me during the day and leave a message, I return those calls first, not last.

If I would compare it to other forms of malicious calls - heavy breathing, joke calls from children - it's very, very small as a proportion but I would imagine that it could grow.

Dennis Hastert

If I were the president, I'd call the Congress back on the second of January to finish the work, ... I plan to have a talk with the president today.

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