Famous Quotes & Sayings

My concern is getting this offense right. There are a lot of calls that we felt like should've gone our way, but didn't go our way. But we can't depend on that.

Ebonics - or black English, as I prefer to call it - is one of a great many dialects of English. And so English comes in a great many varieties, and black English is one of them.

Louis MacNeice

Some day I shall write a novel and call it 'A Walking Tour in the Congo' or 'Thrills and Spills in Aeronautics'; but I keep this type of title as a last & mercenary resort.

Katherine Parkinson

I'm going to get myself one of those, um, movable computers - what do you call them... ? Laptops! I am bad. I still call my radio a wireless.

Kage Baker

Back when the concept of organ transplants qualified as science fiction, novelist Maurice Renard wrote a thriller called 'Les Mains d'Orlac.' Call it a bastard offspring of 'Frankenstein;' its plot revolved around the old theme of Science Giving Us Stuff We Shouldn't Have - in this particular case, restoring severed body parts.

Kara Swisher

Unlike the messier MySpace, Facebook has a cleaner and easier-to-customize interface and is much more, as Zuckerberg once described it to me, 'utilitarian.' I would call it useful and more relevant than other competitors, and a white-label version would likely be a hit.

We are not calling for an inquiry at this point in time.

We are not calling for a blockade, but if oil companies decide they cannot send out lorries while there is a public presence at their site, then that is a matter for them.

We are here to serve the people of Vernon County. We respond to an emergency call immediately and a crew is called to come in as backup. We don't wait because taking that call is our primary purpose. A transfer is different, it takes us out of our area.

We did not disclose all the information that we could have and that is the fundamental difference now. We fully publish all our characterized errata and we don't try to make any judgment calls on what the impact is to the end user. That's for them to decide.

Dick Vermeil

We did know he started getting what we call 'burners' once in a while - a tingling in his fingers from some hits - which are very, very common,

We did get off to a slow start. I think we got stronger as the season went on. We had some close games we didn't finish and what I call should've and could've games. It was just the little things we didn't take care of.

We'd have 50 or 60 calls each day from all counties and other states,

We desperately need people. They can call here, or go to our Web site and click on mentoring and they can even download an application.

We desperately need people. They can call here, go to our Web site and click on mentoring and they can even download an application.

John Key

I was really fascinated by politics. It always has been part of my view that politics really is a calling or you wouldn't go into it, because it's demanding and potentially has a toll on you and your family.

Jennifer Grant

When I knew I was pregnant four years ago with a boy, a friend suggested I call him Cary, but I initially resisted. There was only one Cary Grant. But a week before he was due, I started thinking it would be wonderful to pass the name on to him. And anyway, my father wasn't Cary to me. He was Dad.

For me, not owning a car means I may spend a little extra time on public transportation, but I can use that time to read, catch up on work projects, and make the phone calls I couldn't get to earlier. Plus, I never waste time at the mechanics or gas station.

What we're doing is focusing on trying to resolve the issues, trying to resolve what we call freedom of travel disputes that involve U.S. citizens in Saudi Arabia. And we're going to keep up that effort.

What we now call modern photography was influenced by commercial photography. But not all (modern artists) were commercial photographers, and not many (commercial photographers) are recognized as fine artists.

John Randolph

What we need is people to call us and provide us with as much information as possible, ... We need the community to be our eyes and ears.

There is a presence here, but it's not what people think it is. It's not like it is in Dallas -- not saying as to how tough they are. If eight kids get together and call themselves whatever type gang, that's a presence; no matter how you want to describe it, it's a presence.

Derek Sivers

There are plenty of millionaires who would pay millions to hang a Van Gogh painting on the wall, but hardly one that would have ever had the crazy nut over for dinner. I feel like the big companies are like that with musicians. They'll say, 'We love music! It's all about the music!' - but if a musician shows up at the door, they call security.

Kofi Annan

There are no excuses, ... If we are to show ourselves worthy of calling ourselves members of humankind, we must rise to this challenge. Our response will be no less than a measure of our humanity.

There are mistakes made with penalties, and those are very big plays sometimes. We just feel it gives the clubs another option, since we're spending tens of millions of dollars on replay already, to make sure we have the right call on the field.

Jimmy Carter

I am proud to call Lieutenant John Kerry my shipmate, and I am ready to follow him to victory in November,

Sean Taylor

Catfish - I call him Catfish - is always around the ball. Yeah, that was great.

Certainly, if they are going to be calling the games the way they have been, then our power play is going to have to work.

Certainly, I don't think in my lifetime it's going to be played (again). It may be the last game. That's the way it's being worked; the last game, the last leg, train, whatever you want to call it.

Cell phones make a lot of sense from a certain standpoint. They're great for calling and for a certain kind of e-mail. But if you want to experience cyberspace in any meaningful way you can't do it with a cell phone.

Oscar Wilde

CECILY. When I see a spade I call it a spade./ GWENDOLEN. I am glad to say I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different.

But what for the generality I call a light or gentle hand, is at the same time as light as a feather, and yet firm, except in extraordinary cases.

Ben Miller

But we're the anti-rock stars. We hesitate to call ourselves entertainers because there's a depth to taiko that's much more than what passes as entertainment these days. Entertainment has become thin. Superficiality is something we want to stay away from. Our performers are flashy, but it's because they've trained for 30 years.