Famous Quotes & Sayings

(The referees) have been calling (penalties) and sticking to them. They've been calling them when it's 5-on-4 and they've been calling it late in game and in overtime. It's made for a better game.

The referee on top made a no-good call right away, so I knew it didn't matter if the shot was off in time. That's a tough way to lose. In the worst-case scenario, the game would've gone into overtime.

The referee made the right call. Texas made a great defensive play. At the end of the game, the referees don't want to determine it and kind of let us play. It was the right call not to make the call.

Women should start at 10 to 15 pounds and should work up to 25 pounds. It's a judgment call when to move up. For instance, if they can do 25 front swings with a 10-pounder, they should move up to the 15-pounder.

Charlotte Whitton

Call me anything you like, but don't call me a lady.

We are getting lots of calls from developers. It really cranked up about three years ago and hasn't slowed down.

We're going to line up in a one-back offense most of the time. We're going to be in the shotgun a lot. I hesitate to call it a Spread offense, though. It's really a ball-control offense, and that's something the Spread is not known for in general.

Usually, by the end of October all the chestnut growers start calling each other looking for chestnuts because we're all sold out.

We're most disturbed by the company's issuing notices of furlough to people they just got done recalling. We think that it shows a callous disregard for these individuals and their lives.

With the leadership and the confidence he has in his teammates and the unselfishness that he has as that point guard now, he's able to orchestrate. He knows who's hot and where they want to get it. He knows the offense well enough now to know what to call and it's like an extension of the bench.

With the information at his or her fingertips, someone in the emergency room or on call is able to give more focused and better care. When people don't know what's been done, they repeat things.

With my foul situation I knew it was going to be a risk. I wanted to keep a hand in her face and pray the referee would not call a foul.

We're going to call it the 'west side story' because there is a lot to tell.

CC Sabathia

We FaceTime and Skype. My two older kids got iPods for their birthdays, so they can FaceTime their dad whenever they need him. They always get a six o'clock call right after dinner, and I make sure I talk to each child. Even my 1-year-old gets on the phone and says 'Daddy.' They know my schedule by now and count the days back until I get home.

We're fielding a lot of calls from institutional investors looking to take positions in industrial real estate in Austin.

We're in what I call the dog days of August. It's quiet, it's slow. Most market participants are sitting on the sidelines, waiting for some definitive sign from the economic numbers.

Marcus Davis

We're just heavy. I call us 'groove-rock,' because the groove is just beat, solid and heavy.

Sergio Garcia

We're getting a lot of local citizens from Jacksonville calling in to get reservations.

We're getting a lot of calls from good citizens of San Marcos that are wanting to help,

We're getting a few calls and we know that with any new system, there is some fear about it.

Vince Carter

We're better prepared. He wants more out of us so, of course, that's going to call for more work.

We're better off now than we were this time yesterday but as long as the winds are playing havoc we aren't even calling it contained.

John Scott

We're been inundated with phone calls from institutions and people in industry who want to get out of TWA.

William Shakespeare

Sometimes when we are labeled, when we are branded our brand becomes our calling.

Nina Jacobson

My daughter and I have this thing we call a PMA: 'perfect moment alert.' I try to really notice when we're having a PMA.

Noah Hawley

I love the idea that the editing room is the final time you write. You should still be creatively solving problems even at that point. It's not really until you're locked that you can call it quits.

Leslie Nielsen

The reason they call it 'golf' is that all the other 4 letter words were used up.

Leonard Susskind

The word 'universe' is obviously not intended to have a plural, but science has evolved in such a way that we need a plural noun for something similar to what we ordinarily call our universe.

Lev Grossman

I love rare books. Not that I own a lot of them, mind you. You couldn't quite call me a rare-book collector. But I did once work in a rare-books library, and I wrote a novel about a rare book.

Kazuo Ishiguro

There's something very misleading about the literary culture that looks at writers in their 30s and calls them 'budding' or 'promising', when in fact they're peaking.

We're real excited to have the home court advantage, and that is something that will really be in our favor. We hope to have a really good crowd out there, calling the Hogs, getting it going, and seeing what this team can do.

With these types of fires and how fast and aggressively they burn, this needs to be a wake-up call for people to be careful.

With the no-huddle offense, it helps to have guys that have been on the field and understand the game because we get a lot of last-minute calls and adjustments, and you're constantly reading defenses. That's obviously something that he excels at.