Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Tortorella

You can't take the physical part out. Everybody wants that physical part and that's something we got to find here because we can't lose that. You still have to call the cheap stuff, though.

You can't take it like it's a country club. I honestly don't think he directed that at everyone. Instead of calling out a few people, he took a different political route and generalized the whole team. If someone gets offended by what he said, then they don't deserve to be here.

John Zorn

You can't sit down and write 300 compositions in a three-month period and think that you're doing it all by yourself. Obviously, there's something going on here. And whether you want to call it channeling or being connected to a creative force or knowing your history and knowing where you belong, that's, you know, maybe a personal thing.

Video conferencing is still like an upgraded conference call -- normal but interrupted voice is not a natural environment,

Very simply, if we need items shipped, we call FedEx.

USC was expecting me, but my whole family was surprised. People from my school are calling me because they thought I was going to A&M or Florida State. It's funny, but I'm a Trojan.

We know that he has had what I would call emotional difficulties in the past. There is certainly no evidence at this point which points to any other kind of motivation other than his personal problems,

We feel like we're at a point where we can do that. With the D.I.Y. approach, we're doing things the way we like it. We get to call our own shots.

Arnaz Battle

You have to take a lot of pride in it. It's part of the game plan. If it's called, you want to make it work. Just because it's a gadget and it doesn't work, a lot of people will (say), 'Well, we don't normally do that.' But we feel like when we call those type plays, we want to make them work.

You get tired of not being able to have some place you can kind of call home.

You expect somebody to come pick you up and then they call and say, well, they're having second thoughts. That's what a person in that situation would probably think. He's just waiting for the next shoe to fall. But we're going to go get him.

I don't expect to get a standing ovation from businessmen when I call for higher wages.

Political civility is not about being polite to each other. It's about reclaiming the power of 'We the People' to come together, debate the common good and call American democracy back to its highest values amid our differences.

Paul Gleason

Confidence, knowing for certain that the person making the call has your safety foremost in their mind. And knowing that the job you are about to take on is the right thing to do, that it makes sense.

Paul Arden

Risks are a measure of people. People who don't take them are trying to preserve what they have. Some risks have a future, and some people call them wrong. But being right may be like walking backwards, proving where you've been.

Mike Huckabee

I treat my wife very differently than I treat my chums and my pals. I wouldn't worry about calling them on Valentine's Day, opening the door for them, or making sure they were OK.

Marvin Hagler

I started out doing commercials, like Diet Coke and Pizza Hut. And I started to find there was a different life for me, in a different field. From there, I got a call from a director in Italy, and we did 'Indio' I and II, and that's where it started.

Suzi Quatro

I can feel things - tap into emotions. When I meet a new person, I know their life straight away. I suppose you could call it a special intuition, but it's my number one quality, and I'm always 99.9 percent right. If I don't like someone, it always turns out to be for a good reason.

Suzanne Somers

After working with many nutritionists, reading books, and practicing trial and error on my own body, I have finally found a way to control my weight without deprivation. I call my program 'Somersizing,' and Somersizing is not a diet. Diet is a nasty four-letter word that conjures up negative thoughts of sacrifice and obsession and guilt.

Scott Walker

Certainly political capital-slash-celebrity attention, whatever you want to call it, certainly is part of the reason why I've been reaching out to CEOs. There's a lot of folks who probably would have taken a call from me before but are even more inclined now and are interested in what we're doing because of all the attention.

You can only call yourself a tough person or a tough team if you experience tough times.

You can only call them as you see them, you don't invent them and he was right with most of them.

The initial call came to us just before one o'clock this morning from the employer of the victim. He was supposed to show up for work at 11 and didn't make it. The employer contacted police concerned if everything was okay.

Brad Ausmus

The ump sees what, 225, 250 pitches a night and get the great majority of them right. But it's not like his call scored any runs. They did that on their own.

The umpire told us that was going to be the last inning and that they were going to call the game. So we knew we would win if we could hold on. They came through with some big hits at opportune times.

John Shelby Spong

The ultimate meaning of the Bible escapes human limits and calls us to a recognition that every life is holy, every life is loved, and every life is called to be all that that life is capable of being.

The UDC said fundamentally that Berlusconi isn't the man to lead, and that will cause a government meltdown. The government will have to call early elections.

The trip kind of started out big, but it's fizzled out now. Basically, Charles is kind of boring. A trip like this is what we call DBW -- Dull But Worthy.

Sathya Baba

The truth is that people merely call themselves devotees. It is a delusion. They should examine whether they have the qualities of devotees.

These are now what we would call a pad-ready site, ready to build, everything in place, good to go.

These are big games. You can't just sit back on a call like that. It's crucial.

These guys, you could call them overachievers. We don't have the 6-8s, the 6-5s, the 6-7s, but we're scrappy. I've said that from the beginning, we're going to leave it on the floor. And if we're going to win, that's what we have to do.

Herb Alpert

It's certainly an honor. When I got the call I didn't sure how to react, to tell you the truth. It wasn't until my wife's gynecologist called and congratulated me that I figured we were onto something.