Famous Quotes & Sayings

Juan Williams

When it comes to serious cuts to major programs like Medicaid, the American people are not calling for leadership but magic. They want cuts with no pain.

Shannon Brown

When it comes to basketball, it's not that hard. You gotta go out and play like you gotta play and listen to the coaching staff. You just have to go out and play hard, and we call that Spartan basketball.

We can say that Japan is the only country that calls into question the outcome of the Second World War; no one else does.

Michael Myers

We'd rather go forward, but we have to play within the defense, and if it calls for us to drop, we drop.

We'd rather follow up on a hundred false leads than have someone say, 'I was going to call but thought it was nothing' and a killer roams the streets.

We realized how important it was for us to play well. We got back to basics. When we were struggling, we knew that was a wake-up call for us.

When he's good, I call him 'Al-ley,' like Muhammad Ali,

Federico Fellini

What is an artist? A provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one.... Its this in-between that Im calling a province, this frontier country between the tangible world and the intangible onewhich is really the realm of the artist.

Reggie Bush

We feel like if we go out there and dominate and play like we know how, then the rest should take care of itself. Every call we make, we feel like we'll take it the distance.

We've got to turn it around or our season's going to slip away. It was a real wake-up call (Thursday).

Robert Rodriguez

We've focused on retailers that we would call 'category killers,'

We talk about stuff we need to work on, things like that. I guess you could call us soccer nerds.

Dave Cook

West Virginia was a wake-up call for everyone. We're trying to get employees to realize they're No. 1 for protecting themselves.

We, therefore, call on all willing political parties to come forth to fully activate, at the earliest, the stalled democratic process in the greater interest of the nation.

We are finding out that a lot of Bostonians are making plans to go to Spring Training. I think we've probably gotten more calls about that than I've seen in our years here. One lady sent me an e-mail, she said, 'I know that the van is leaving, I don't care. I'm already in Fort Myers, when is the van arriving?

We can call you 'E' because you spell yours with an E.

Mahmoud Abbas

Today, I'm going to call the designated prime minister, we are going to see the formation of this government.

Today firefighters are less reticent to call for help.

To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe. You cannot hire a wise man or any other intellect to solve it for you. There's no writ of inquest or calling of witness to provide answers.

To compete, you need to have a strong heart. You need to be very tough. Scott and I have to know that (a student) is not going to quit. Some people pick it up really quickly. Others take several months to get what I call a good foundation.

What you call dog with no legs? Don't matter what you call him, he ain't gonna come.

John Buchan

What would you call the highest happiness? Wratislaw was ask. The sense of competence, was the answer, given without hesitation.

Michael Winner

What? What!!!! Where is Rupert, I must call him.

Here, even if you have a little complaint, we call a hotline. They don't have that there.

Al Michaels

This was as tough a call as I've had to make. It wasn't 80-20, it was 51-49.

Gabrielle Zevin

I hadn't ever felt any particular calling to be a novelist, and I clearly remember telling a friend of mine about six months before I started work on 'Elsewhere' that I would never write a novel.

Eduardo Galeano

We have a memory cut in pieces. And I write trying to recover our real memory, the memory of humankind, what I call the human rainbow, which is much more colorful and beautiful than the other one, the other rainbow.

I am a doctor - it's a profession that may be considered a special mission, a devotion. It calls for involvement, respect and willingness to help all other people.

Ellen Potter

I pretty much always knew I wanted to be a writer. I was writing goofy stories when I was 7 or 8. That was what I call 'wishful-thinking writing.' I grew up in the city and always wanted a horse, but there was no way I was getting a horse. So I wrote all these stories about kids who had horses. It's still fun entering these other worlds.

Complete objectivity is not an option. We are all subjective about the way we respond to 'what is,' whether it's the people we encounter, the circumstances in our lives, or ourselves. What we can do is reduce our subjectivity - what I call 'I see, therefore it is.'

Markets work well with goods that economists call private goods.

Erich von Stroheim

Because I select my players from a feeling that comes to me when I am with them, a certain sympathy you might call it, or a vibration that exists between us that convinces me they are right.

Elliot Perlman

I can't really remember a time in my life when I didn't know something about what we call the Holocaust. It was this dark topic that I would know more about when I got older, but which was spoken about in hushed tones.