Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daryl Hannah

Rudolph Diesel was dead long before they named that by-product of petroleum they call diesel fuel. It had nothing to do with him.

Andy Reid

Right now, they're calling it an abdominal strain.

Andy Reid

right now they are calling it an abdominal strain... That's what it is right now.

Pretty much all we do on the ride is talk wrestling. We'll call each other and check our weights when we aren't together.

Andre Johnson

Practice has changed, period, since he's become the offensive coordinator. And he calls you out when you mess up.

Power was fully restored (Tuesday night). We received 99 calls and estimate 1,500 customers were affected.

President Lincoln referred to the Confederate secessionists as insurgents. Today, we call them terrorists.

Wayne Hale

Perhaps some of the small pieces did in fact strike the orbiter but we don't have what I'll call solid evidence.

Wayne Hale

Perhaps some of the small pieces did in fact strike the orbiter, but we don't have what I'll call solid evidence.

Sam is our strongest and most skilled player. With him and with the way Michael Williams is playing right now, we have what some of our opponents might call a two-headed monster.

Sami last week had a collision with one of our players when they were fooling around. He hurt his shoulder and had an MRI performed on him yesterday. The results were that he's got a slap tear, they call that, and a partial thickness tear of his rotator cuff. He'll have surgery early next week, and will miss approximately 10 weeks from the date of surgery.

(Salazar) came out opposing the project, and he's been calling the Forest Service and getting information on it since late 2005.

(Saito) has been getting a lot of calls from people and groups who don't want to let it die. That's very encouraging. It's a big job. There's no question about it. But people are stepping up to it.

Say to yourself, I will call the office at six every other day, and that is when you do it, so it is not going to dominate your whole holiday and you can get time to relax.

Put him up there as the greatest player in Texas history right now. He might have been there, but to have that performance and that game - what do they call it, an instant classic? That was it.

Radio on the Internet is yet another world-shrinking example of what communications analysts call "death of distance.

David Frum

Reagan is a symbol who calls the party to be something broader. The Republican Party is in many ways a very disunited party. In a way, by making Reagan a greater figure, you can create a greater unity.

Read the material carefully. If you find it's unfavorable, it's worth a phone call to issuers to tell them you're going to leave if they can't match the old terms.

(Randy) knows it starts with his offensive line. He made great calls thanks to the line. Mt. Pleasant started blitzing and they were able to pick it up and let Randy make plays.

Randy immediately came off the mound and had some choice words to say. I told him to knock it off and get back on the mound. He screamed again, an expletive and, 'Just call it a strike.' And at that point he also screamed out, 'And the pitch to Wells was an expletive strike as well.' And at that point, I ejected him.

Really, in her eyes, she's got some great schools to choose from and I don't really think she can go wrong with any of them and I just think that obviously she's got a piece of mind of what she wants to do or otherwise she wouldn't want to call the press conference. I think she's ready to make a decision and move on and not feel like she's misleading anyone.

John Ridley

Reactionary conservatives are smiling through the racial apocalypse. To them, race baiting is a joke, as 'humorist' Rush Limbaugh will tell you when he's calling Mexicans 'stupid.' Or it's a matter of semantics when they claim that Sonia Sotomayor is a 'racialist' which, far as I can tell, is the smooth jazz version of being a racist.

Eliot Spitzer

Proponents cleverly wrapped the word reform around the amendment, ... But calling a mule a thoroughbred doesn't make it one.

Susan Collins

Progress has been halting, a trail of missteps that calls into question what has been done during the last four years, and that continues to plague the recovery even today.

Cris Collinsworth

Probably more than anything else, he needs a wife, honestly, ... If he had a wife, the minute he takes after Donovan McNabb, his wife would have said, 'What are you doing? Pick up the telephone and call him and apologize. You're so out of line.'

Martin Parr

Personally, I don't take holidays; I go on trips. My idea of relaxing is taking a trip that isn't commissioned. I'll work just as hard, but without that nagging pressure of fulfilling a commission. Now that's what I call a holiday.

People trapped are calling out. They are knocking. The trouble is: time is going by.

People think that ambulances show up automatically. But we're the ones who call and send them.

People think our call center is in India because of the ethnic sound of a rep's voice, but it's in Canada.

Our shelters are always putting out calls for sheets and towels.

Our team was great during the summer. People call it the Lake Washington nation because we all hangout together and workout.

Ours is all grassroots. We encourage our members to send faxes and make calls to their senators.

Ours is a grass-roots effort, ... We're talking to people, going door to door instead of hiring outside contractors to call people like Mr. Ecke is doing.