Famous Quotes & Sayings

Padgett Powell

I am writing a book more improbable than 'The Interrogative Mood' that I call 'Manifesto'. It's two guys talking who speak artificially conveniently.

Pat Conroy

Fear is the major cargo that American writers must stow away when the writing life calls them into carefully chosen ranks.

We hadn't planned to come to New Orleans but when the call went out, we responded in force.

We have three medalists out of what essentially people would call our JV team. They didn't run like that today.

Devin Aromashodu

We have the same phone service. So he can always call me for free.

Michelle Ryan

We were getting five, six phone calls an hour going, 'Oh my God, you're closing?'

We were frustrated with a few of the calls that were made. But we understand that when you go on the road that's part of the game.

We were shocked, you know, but we knew that someday it could happen. Now they're calling people all over.

We had a lot of play calls for Chris and were trying to get him the ball, but they played great defense. Every time Chris got the ball, they were right in his face, so he really couldn't get anything off.

Lou Holtz

We had a lot of people call us. And a lot of people we played, they were all the sudden using it the next year.

We had a lot of good candidates, including some from the mainland that we did long-distance calls with. We had a few people in-house who are very good with a lot of experience. Dan kind of tied the whole package together.

Dannii Minogue

We had a lot of emotional phone calls, with me calling Paris and Kylie calling me in London, ... But we're really pleased how it turned out. It was a huge moment for our family.

Joe Clark

We had a lot of big busts. It's to the credit of the people calling in.

We had all these negative pre-announcements and the stocks aren't going down, and the sector is going up. The market is calling a bottom.

Don Ross

We had fuel scheduled to be delivered yesterday (Monday) and the day before, and they actually told us that there is no fuel for us, ... So we went into our secondary mode, calling our back-up people. We were on the phone until 1 a.m. trying to schedule fuel to be delivered here.

We had very concerned calls from shareholders." ()

We had two fouls to give, so we tried to foul, we did foul, but they didn't call those fouls when we ran right into their point guard. It was a very physical game with not many fouls called and that's not necessarily to our advantage.

We had two days in December that you would call winter. We've had so many 50-degree days, it's really been amazing.

We had to start calling troopers in. We pulled in as many as we could find.

We have a line all the way around it, but we're still calling it 30 percent contained through the night. The reason for that is because when the winds come in tomorrow we want to make sure those lines will hold.

Kirk Talley

We have a higher power that we call upon.

We have a good relationship. I mean, he's my dad's boss. If I ever needed anything, I would definitely call him.

We have a lot of interest. A lot of people we're talking to, the reason why they're calling is they like the idea of having people living right there.

You are going to have victims who are already scared as it is, who are not going to call the police at all (for fear of being deported). You need a police who protects all victims of crime.

Al Davis

We've gotta run that football better, we've gotta run it tougher, and people have to understand that they're gonna get knocked. Not what we call zone blocking.

We've got some really good shooters on this team. I am thinking about letting them call the offense as long as they share the ball, and I'll just concentrate on defense and rebounding.

We've had good preparation because of it. It was kind of a wakeup call for a lot of the guys that are back and for the coaches and everybody. I feel like we have something to go out and prove -- that we're better than what we did last year, more than anything.

We've had five calls this week about our program. Most of them who call or come to us haven't seen it in the newspaper because they can't read, but they hear about us from family and friends.

We've had enormous amounts of feedback over the last few months. We took a lot of phone calls with IT managers, trying to pinpoint what their needs were around customization. Security and efficiency were two of the big 'asks' we heard from IT managers.

We've had calls from a few players in Florida, ... We tell them there has to be a lot of states to cross before you get to Washington.

John Carroll

We've made slow progress all day because the winds have continued. Lines get repaired, but outage calls continue to come in.

We have been trying to call the mayor's office, we have been trying to call the governor's office ... we have tried to use any inside pressure we can. We are turning to you. Please help us,

Randy Carlyle

We have to make sure our players are disciplined to the point, where they can't put themselves or their team in a situation that's going to cost their hockey club goals, momentum, whatever you want to call it.