Famous Quotes & Sayings

We made the wrong call on the field for the protection. We could have handled the guy off the right edge with the right call.

Of John Le Carre's books, I've only read 'The Spy Who Came In From The Cold,' and I haven't read anything by Graham Greene, but I've heard a great deal about how 'Your Republic Is Calling You' reminded English readers of those two writers. I don't really have any particular interest in Cold War spy novels.

When I wrote 'Your Republic Is Calling You,' it was Franz Kafka's writing that I had most in mind, and James Joyce's 'Ulysses.' Entirely out of the blue, Kafka's characters receive an order to go somewhere, and when they try to comply, they never quite manage it. Ki-yong in 'Your Republic Is Calling You' is precisely that sort of character.

When the moon covers the sun, we have a solar eclipse. What do you call it when birds do that?

Kimberley Nixon

If something doesn't work in my house - TV, phone, stereo, anything - I just call my dad, and he knows the answer.

Jamie Court

Hurricane Katrina will only increase the probability of profiteering and should be a wakeup call to legislators.

Chuck D.

Hurricane Katrina was a wake-up call to this country . . . It wakes us up to the fact that our God is sovereign and we should be constantly in a state of repentance humbly seeking God's favor.

Dennis Hastert

Hurricane Katrina is a wake-up call for our nation. It reminded us of the power of Mother Nature and the need for federal, state and local governments to always be prepared... As we go about rebuilding the Gulf Coast, we welcome the president's proposals as well as the thoughts of state and local leaders.

Rex Walters

I actually called coach Doherty, coach Williams and Pat Riley to call on my behalf,

He was just calling to congratulate me on getting to play. We just kind of swapped stories.

Michael Freeman

He wasn't very confident of his IDs, ... In fact, I wouldn't go so far as to call them identifications.

He was going to call in sick today but he wanted to make more money for the holidays.

He was getting a barrage of calls from May to late July -- phone calls, e-mails, text messages. It was endless. And my phone was ringing off the wall as well.

He was integral in the whole thing because he's the one who heard us trying to call through on the radio. He definitely deserves a lot of credit.

Emerson Fittipaldi

He was the computer. I would have a dinner with him, if the car wasn't handling well on the Friday, and would explain to him what it was doing at different parts of the track. He would go back to the garage, and call the mechanics. And by Saturday morning the car would be fantastic. Only Colin Chapman could do that. Of all the engineers I worked with, all the team managers, Colin was a genius who had the intuition to do it.

He was struggling to play each week so we had to make the call to do it,

He was safe, no if ands or butts about it. That was one of the worst calls of the year. That wasn't even a contest. It changes the whole thing.

Carlos Tevez

He spent the whole game calling me a 'lousy foreigner' and saying I wouldn't finish the match, ... We Argentines have to worry not only about the game but also about the refereeing.

Mike Judge

I almost didn't name Butt-Head 'Butt-Head.' I came real close to calling him something else.

Samm Levine

One of my favorite things about what I do for a living is that there is no certainty that, at any hour of any day, I could get a phone call that could change everything. Good or bad. I never know.

Charlie Worsham

I was at Home Depot with my dad looking for paint when I got the call to open for Taylor Swift. That was wild, because I was crying in Home Depot, and people were looking at me funny.

I was still at the track here on Friday night when I got a cell phone call from the team. I would be honored to race for Rahal-Letterman and represent Ethanol in the program that meant so much to Paul Dana. We haven't discussed a contract or anything, and I don't know if they are looking at other people.

I was standing inside at the cash register, and he came inside and looked at me. He told me to call police because he had been robbed.

I was so tired I didn't call anyone, I didn't go to church.

Mike Lieberthal

I was setting up over the plate and calling two-seamers, and saying, 'Go ahead, hit this movement. And there was a lot of movement,' ... We had a game plan before the game, but we used more two-seamers because of how well it was moving.

Olli Jokinen

I was surprised at the call on Lemieux, because the rules are if you touch Crosby or Lemieux you get a penalty.

Debbie Stabenow

I was stunned to see that Delphi's first offer to its workers calls for an unprecedented elimination of health care and pension benefits, and wages as low as $9 an hour,

I was so nervous this morning I couldn't rest. I kept calling Al and telling him what to do.

Juan Castro

I wouldn't even call it an injury. It's good to be back. I'm ready to go.

I wouldn't call this being a spoiler, ... They're going to win. This might have put it off, but that's it. I don't like the word spoiler. We're trying to win games.

I wouldn't call this a failure, but if it happened routinely, we'd have a different discussion.

I wouldn't call the shoe closet Rose's guilty secret, because it makes her feel better about herself. But it's thousands and thousands of dollars worth of shoes, and she has nowhere to wear them.

David Beckham

I wouldn't call myself a failure like I have been called by some but at the end of the day that's something I'm looking forward to proving this summer,