Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jamie Martin

She's pretty good when she gets the calls and places her pitches.

She spoke what I call survival English. She spoke it well enough that she could communicate all she needed or wanted.

She sits down and plays defense. She has good timing on steals. She is able to contain people on the perimeter and gets a lot of five-seconds calls because of her pressure defense.

She shows no emotion on the mound. I can't read her. I don't think her dad (who calls her pitches from the sideline) can read her.

She's had a good bit. She's had some senior colleges call and talking to her.

Lee Hall

I always call 'Billy Elliot' a fantasy autobiography because I never wanted to be a dancer, but I got a lot of stick from the other kids about wanting to be a writer and being interested in drama.

As an actor, you're like, 'Yeah, I want that phone call from Peter Jackson saying, 'You're my first choice for Thorin Oakenshield.'

Sam Altman

I suppose if I didn't have Loopt, I'd have to, I don't know, pick up the phone and just start calling people, a lot more texting and certainly more Googling.

Alexandre Dumas

...but my friends call me Edmund Dantes.

Rick Perlstein

There is no freedom without groceries. There are no groceries without freedom. What people call 'capitalism' and 'socialism' are actually one and inseparable. It's a virtuous circle.

Rick Perlstein

The argument that John F. Kennedy was a closet peacenik, ready to give up on what the Vietnamese call the 'American War' upon re-election, received its most farcical treatment in Oliver Stone's 'JFK.'

Richard P. Feynman

When I was a young man, Dirac was my hero. He made a breakthrough, a new method of doing physics. He had the courage to simply guess at the form of an equation, the equation we now call the Dirac equation, and to try to interpret it afterwards.

Robert Wilson

There are schools teaching 'stage decoration' as a subject, and they actually call it that. I say: 'Burn those schools!'

Ron Wood

I heard this massive thud. I spun around, and there Keith was, on the ground. He'd cut his gums up on impact, he was very bloody, and clutching his head. I think it was a kind of wake-up call for him.

Bruce Pearl

We're not communicating. We're capable of defending better. I call it having a sense of urgency. You need it this part of the season.

We're not calling this a sequel. We're calling it the next installment.

We're not calling this a drowning. The investigation will continue and we're awaiting autopsy results to determine how the child died.

We're not calling the people out as long as we see that Elian's case remains in the courts and the government is not moving to suddenly take Elian back to Cuba.

We're not calling it a ripple effect; we're calling it a reverberating effect.

Life is not a continuum of pleasant choices, but of inevitable problems that call for strength, determination, and hard work

Henry David Thoreau

Let us make distinctions, call things by the right names

Make no mistake; they're not just ordinary drug traffickers. To call them that would be something akin to calling Al Capone a tax cheat.

Rex Miller

Luke has a hard time getting off his back. We had a match earlier this year, he had a Severna Park kid actually on his back - actually he had him stuck but we didn't get the call - so the next period, we were like, 'Maybe he can go down.' He turned into the guy and got put on his back.

Maine's been at the top of the league so long and now it's a situation where we're in a rebuilding year - if you would call it that - but we are down, and I think teams are taking that opportunity and really coming after us hard.

Mac is what I call the new Chrysler Corporation, ... You may have watched him in the Senate (race). He is nothing like that. He has put together a team. He is totally focused on being a challenger, working hard, raising money and being out there everyday.

Madrid was a big wake-up call to us, yet we did relatively little. It really seems to me a matter of time before it happens in our country -- in part because it's so easy to do.

Chevy Chase

Let's not call physical comedy falling down and pratfalls. All humor is physical, no matter how you dish it out. It's timing, like a dancer or an athlete would have.

LaMont Jordan

Let's just call it what it is: We came out flat. We're not going to the playoffs. It's the first time all year I can say that.

Kathleen Sebelius

Let's think of new opportunities, not past constraints, as we visualize the future of the state that we call home.

Let me be very clear. When the decision was made that there would be no type of extension offer, I felt very strongly that it was time to move on. In the midst of (a conference call with reporters), the phone at the other end of my house rang and a message was left. Please call.

We are one step away from being perfect. Things happen for a reason and perhaps it's a needed wake up call for this team.

Suresh Raina

I have time only for cricket, and when I am not playing, I love to be at home, chat with my family, do puja with them, call for some yummy paani puri, etc. Also I love to cook. I can make dal, sabji and chicken! But, at home everybody's a vegetarian, so I can't cook non-veg at home!

Harlan Coben

I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, I love to fool you a third time. And just when you think it's all over, I have what I call that Carrie hand-out-of-the-grave moment. Just when you think it's all over, I'm going to hit you with just one more. I can't help myself.