Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stan Freberg

Most folks call 'em green onions, but they're really scallions!

Most celebrities who have a public name to protect would not make this kind of public allegation, ... When famous people call us, we try to find a way under the radar, so to speak.

Most calls are for unresponsive people, people feeling sick and for people who have had too much to drink and lose consciousness.

Chris Harris

Microsoft is notorious for developing what it calls 'standards' that are actually 'Microsoft standards,'

Herman Melville

Methinks that what they call my shadow here on earth is my true substance. Methinks that in looking at things spiritual, we are too much like oysters observing the sun through the water, and thinking that thick water the thinnest of air.

(Members) want to make one call and it is all sorted,

Anthony Sampson

Members rise from CMG (known sometimes in Whitehall as ''Call Me God'') to KCMG (''Kindly Call Me God'') to GCMG (''God Calls Me God'').

Who's calling the shots? Where is the state's input?

Jon Gruden

Will has done some good things. That's a real competitive call for us, as far as who is going to be the starter.

Whoever thought up the word 'spoon'? Why do they call it spoon? He was always coming up with something funny to say and he didn't care what people thought about him.

When the call comes in, there will be a display showing the number and the name. Eventually we'll have equipment that will show a map of their location for the dispatcher as well.

When the call came through it was not reported as a medical emergency. It was reported as a robbery in which the suspect had already fled the scene.

We have our own wholly owned products, like the card section and the Virtual Garden; then we have another level that we call our affiliates,

We haven't seen any checkered flags or had a call from NASCAR.

We just call it the story of hope.

We invite good teams to the tournament. That's why we call it the Tournament of Champions. We feel these are good teams and we have good teams within our community.

Marian Edelman

we in this wealthy nation are going to see that every child has a place to call home, enough to eat, a place to sleep and get them all ready for school to get an education so they can be productive future citizens.

John Jones

We just couldn't hit a shot. I thought we were a little lethargic. I think we thought we were playing hard but we weren't. It's a good wakeup call for us.

You can game-plan the week of the Oklahoma game without having to call 50 recruits every day. But what if someone better than the player you've got comes along?

You don't ever practice such a thing. The situation was pretty intense. There were a couple critical calls that were non-calls that were an important part of the game. We weren't used to that situation.

You don't call the police for drug deals gone bad.

You just wait for that phone call from your agent, basically. And that's the worst, because they always say, 'If you're sitting there waiting on that phone call, it ain't never going to come.' It's not an easy thing to go through, especially when you have a family. You've got to be willing to jump up and move to any other city and hope you get picked up.

Marie Osmond

You just need to be honest with how you're feeling. But, a lot of women are afraid of it because they think, 'Oh, they are going to take my baby away. They're gonna call me incompetent. I'm going to lose my job. I've got to be tough, it's a man's world.'

Pavel Kubina

You just have to be careful. It seems like some games they are calling everything and the next game they are not. We just have to be more careful about it, especially in a tie game, you can't take any stupid penalties.

You just have to be a better salesperson as a recruiter. It's going to take a little more time to get them to return your calls and get them to take a serious look at the opportunity.

Mick Jagger

You call yourself a Christian; I call you a hypocrite. You call yourself a patriot; well, I think you're full of . . .

Wolf Blitzer

You call them rebels, ... I call them by their names: They are killers, they are convicted killers, they are terrorists.

You call that an instant classic. It was two great players taking over the game.

Campbell Scott

You can do anything you want as long as you don't call it what it is,

You can call this win ugly but I thought it was pretty as all get-out. We defend. We take people out of their comfort level.

You can call plays all you want, but you have to have players that can make plays. It wasn't designed that way, but Cole found a lane and made it work.

Eugene Jarecki

You can call me an Eisenhower Republican. There is a gigantic gulf between an Eisenhower Republican and the kind of fringe brand of Republicanism that is being so vocally promoted today.

Alexander Medvedev

You can call it withholding or taking, legal or illegal -- call it whatever you like.