Famous Quotes & Sayings

Madeleine Peyroux

When I got to Paris, it was a different world. French radio-another universe from U.S. radio. I found music that could sustain me. I found jazz and other music that I could call mine.

Dontrelle Willis

When I got the call telling me I had won, I was definitely floored and honored.

Kit Harington

When I'm applying for a new passport or something, someone will call me Christopher. Other than that, no one ever calls me Christopher.

When I come home I call somebody to come out and meet me.

Nick Saban

When I call up (Carolina coach) John Fox and tell him what we are going to do, then I'll let you guys know,

Doug Harvey

I was correct in every call I made, regardless of what managers, players or replay may have said. To me, that's the reason I'm in the Hall of Fame. If I didn't umpire with conviction, I wouldn't have made it for long.

Tucker Max

I always laugh when people call me a misogynist. I... love women! Everything I do is to impress women. And if I hated women, why would half my fans be women?

Tyra Banks

On 'America's Top Model,' I've always told my girls to smile with their eyes. We call it 'smizing.' Over the years, it's actually become part of pop culture. I would be walking down the street, and girls would say, 'Smize!'

Tyra Banks

With 'America's Next Top Model,' I've always cast girls who the industry might call 'plus size' but I like to call 'fiercely real.' That was always important to me.

Thomas Friedman

The more Israel sinks into the West Bank, the more it is delegitimized and isolated, the more the world focuses on Israel's colonialism rather than Iran's nuclear enrichment, the more people call for a single democratic state in all of historic Palestine.

We might find a large number of people in the rather ridiculous position of taking what we call pro-cholinergic medication to counteract anti-cholinergic drugs they are already taking.

We might call them schmaltzy, but it's poetry, and people are reading it or giving it as gifts.

The protocol is they should be calling us because they're the home team. Football is new to Indianapolis, so maybe they don't understand the protocols of the NFL as much as they understand basketball.

We've talked about it to the players. The guards will have to run the team in some situations. The kids will have to call plays.

We've taken the initiative to call a meeting between the parties to facilitate the passing of humanitarian goods into Gaza.

We've taken calls from people with vacant land ready to use, but we also look for existing mobile parks because they already have the utilities to hook into.

We've seen a lot of surprises. We had a group call today and say we're going to do a whole emergency golf tournament for hurricane relief and we want it to go to food. Boy, that hardly ever comes in a year and we got it in the second day.

Jack Straw

Mr Mugabe now has a choice: either he calls of the thugs, allows the media to operate freely, and lets the population of Zimbabwe make a democratic choice, or he and his key ministers will pay the price.

William Taylor

Mrs. Moseley didn't intend to call the loan.

Alice McDermott

Much of my experience with language was formed in the church, which has an oral tradition. There are lots of repetitions in prayers and song refrains. There's a sense of incantation, that if you call not once and not twice but for a third time, the spirit appears.

Ms. Lewinsky can resolve some of these crucial conflicts, and House managers have a responsibility to interview her before deciding to call her as a witness. This is Lawyering 101; any good lawyer would talk to a witness before deciding to put her on the witness stand.

Mr. Clinton ... won't you take a moment from your vacation to talk about real tax relief with Hillary and Al (Gore)? ... You'll be glad you did when you're living in New York -- or whatever state you decide to call home.

Jacob Latimore

'Maze Runner' is about a group of teens that live inside this giant maze. And outside the maze are these creatures that come out at night. The centerpiece of the maze where we stay is called the Glades, and we call ourselves the Gladers.

Mack Strong

Matt's made calls like that all year long.

Mayday! Mayday! Mayday! Hostiles are invading the Republic of Texas embassy. We have hostiles in the woods. This is a mayday call for any nation in the world ... We are being invaded!

Mayday! Mayday! Mayday! Hostiles are invading the Republic of Texas embassy, ... We have hostiles in the woods. This is a mayday call for any nation in the world ... We are being invaded!

John Hurt

maybe what we today would call a nerd or a geek.

Maybe we should call it the miracle state.

Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny.

Luis Figo

Me call the president? If he has kicked me out, what for? He didn't call me either when I left.

John Rowland

My legacy as governor was UConn and the cities. This is my passion. When I was governor, I would call Waterbury the center of the universe.

My feeling is never count on an arbitrator or courts, ... You may think you know how it will come out but don't count on it. A strike you can count on because you only call a strike when you know you can win.

Adam Yauch

My friend calls him 'the director, I need more energy in my section!