Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dolly Wells

We came up with this idea of a power struggle between two people who really love each other, and 'Doll & Em' took off. Calling it by our own names was the director's idea, but hopefully people will understand that we're playing versions of ourselves.

Kyle Orton

We came unglued a little bit, ... I tried to call some stuff out at the line and get the situation right.

We came out tonight with a little different mindset, to have some fun. We were either going to come out strong or call it a season. We weren't going to come out and give up another quick goal, and we came out and rang one up off the post within a minute. We came out strong and never let them in it.

We aren't desperate. We won't call it that. We know there's an urgency to win. ... It's not desperation - that's panic.

We are not putting pressure on others. We are calling for contributions.

Chauncey Billups

We had control, but we missed a couple shots, they made a couple, a couple of calls didn't go our way and they got back in it. They won it with a good shot from Paul Pierce. Tough shot.

Graydon Carter

What do you call an electorate that seems prone to acting out irrationally, is full of inchoate rage, and is constantly throwing fits and tantrums? You call it teenaged.

Graydon Carter

You have to give kids something to rebel against. You can't like their music - you have to call it noise. It's incumbent on a parent.

Elizabeth Smith

We have had people calling since the day we closed down.

We have had a wake-up call and it is time to be sure TWIA is property funded.

Les Moonves

We couldn't call it 'The WC' for obvious reasons.

We can't just keep calling it 'we'll be better with experience', we've got to start turning this around, I think we're getting closer but still not getting to the goal.

John Beilein

We know that they're going to play good defense. We call it the New Jersey defense, the strong, tough defense. We knew that they were going to play that way.

We know that the refs aren't going to call lots of fouls.

Norm Coleman

We have what we would call the smoking gun.

Chan Gailey

We have what we call a 24-hour rule. If you win a game, you have 24 hours to enjoy it. If you lose, you have 24 hours to get over the disappointment and go on to the next thing. We're excited to be here.

We have what I call a knee-jerk reaction.

We have warned and continue to warn against calls for the division of Iraq, which come up now and then, calling for sectarian rights or minority freedoms.

We have volunteers coming in a couple nights a week already to be making phone calls and talking to voters.

Richard Dean Anderson

We're loosely calling it The River Project, but hopefully the pieces that we put together will be educational pieces that will throw some light on the situation as to what kind of jeopardy may be surrounding our great rivers.

Samantha Power

Americans have long trusted the views of Democrats on the environment, the economy, education, and health care, but national security is the one matter about which Republicans have maintained what political scientists call 'issue ownership.'

Roger Stone

Big brother listening in on your phone calls - I got a problem with that.

Rosamund Pike

I find I clash sometimes with people who like to plan things and book you in for lunch. I'd rather someone call me up, say: 'Are you free tonight and d'you wanna go to the roller-disco? Or play pool?'

Martha Beck

The great power of separating the watching mind from the thinking mind is that the watching mind is innately loving. Some call this part of the psyche the 'compassionate witness.' Sharing our difficult feelings with a compassionate witness is the crucial step that heals the infinite small wounds inflicted upon the soul by everyday life.

Marlee Matlin

By the time I was a teenager, my desire to be daring and taste everything got me in trouble. Too often, I was in the company of kids my parents would call 'wild.'

Michael Arrington

If a tech journalist needs financial security before doing what their conscience dictates, I'm not sure they should be calling themselves journalists at all.

Patrick Nielsen Hayden

There's a latter-day notion that artsy hippie types in the 1960s disdained the space program. Not in my experience they didn't. We watched, transfixed with reverence, not even making rude remarks about President Nixon during his phone call to the astronauts.

Patrick Ness

How you leave the reader is so important - not the climax; I call it the 'exit feeling'.

Marcus Samuelsson

Children want to mimic adults. They notice when you choose to prepare fresh vegetables over calling in another pizza pie for dinner. They will see that food made with love and care outweighs going through the drive-through window.

Marissa Jaret Winokur

My God, what did I do before Facebook? I guess I had to call people and see how they're doing! Now I can just read a post and call when in trouble.

Marissa Jaret Winokur

The truth is if you can eat just a serving size, you can eat anything. But we all know how those harmless treats can call out your name all night long, and rationalizing in the middle of the night is very easy.

Patti Stanger

It's hard for women who make a lot of money and make decisions all day long, then they have to come home and be 'Stupid Sally.' Men need respect, and they need to know that they can lead in the relationship, so even if they don't make the most money they need to be able to call the shots.

Padgett Powell

I've sat down and written with a more or less supportable or insupportable idea or thing to say, and it ends. When it's not 200 pages, people want to call it a story. I guess they're entitled to do that. In my view, if it were a supportable idea, it would have gone 200 pages, and it didn't.