Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephen Levine

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Wally Buono

If you want to win, you make calls like that. If you worry about the consequences, you keep on losing.

If you write something that allows somebody to copy stuff later on, you could be jailed. This is a wake-up call for programmers.

Caitlyn Jenner

If you want to call me names, make jokes and doubt my intentions, go ahead, because the reality is I can take it.

Paul Davis

If you want to call it a must-win, that's what it is.

Bob Costas

I get a call that says 'Michelle Kwan has withdrawn from the Olympics' and at that point I was thinking 'Wait, what Olympics am I at? Lillehammer? Sarajevo?' and the next thing I know, 45 minutes later I'm interviewing Michelle.

Paul Tsongas

In my time it was the Kennedy call to public service in the Third World. Had there been no Peace Corps, my life would have been radically different.

In my life as an artist, I follow what I call my 'inner directive' because you can never predict what the world is going to do. You can never predict how people are going to respond to what you do. What I have to do is just trust what's sending me down a road of creative inquiry is important to me and somehow that will make it into a piece of work that is important to others.

Maria Semple

I never understood the concept of a fluffy summer read. For me, summer reading means beaches, long train rides and layovers in foreign airports. All of which call for escaping into really long books.

Edward Hirsch

In every culture, in every language, there is expressive play, expressive word play; there's language use to different purposes that we would call poetry.

In 2005, I was the first member of Congress to introduce legislation calling for an immediate withdrawal of our troops from Iraq.

David Myers

In 2004, with many hurricanes in Florida, I think we weren't quite prepared for the volume of calls we received, especially from customers in need of temporary call center facilities.

Kirk Talley

In 2003 the blackmail started. He started calling me and first said he was a private investigator. I quickly saw that he wasn't, that it was just a scheme to get money out of me. So, I went to the authorities and got them involved because I knew if I paid him, he'd be back in a month. I knew I wasn't going to do that the rest of my life.

In 30 seconds, we went from getting ready to call the MPs to everyone shaking hands.

I had a woman call me this morning in tears because her daughter was named Katrina, ... and she was traumatized practically to the point where she wouldn't go out of the house.

I had conference calls with the crew every morning, ... I mean, our jobs are high risk, always, but after seeing all the Hurricane Katrina footage, well, it can make you worry.

I guess you could call it gut-check time. I had lost all confidence in my putting, and on the PGA Tour, that's what it always comes down to.

Paul Tracy

I guess you can't call this single-car qualifying if there are two cars on the track at the same time. It's frustrating.

I guess its kind of a wake-up call for us. We just got to get better.

I had a guy call me last week about it, and it looks pretty good. I talked to the guys and they want to do it.

Chris Leak

I had guys calling me to see extra tape this summer. That was special,

I had gotten a call from the White House indicating they had gone in a different direction.

I had friends call and wake me up.

Tom Neff

If the major labels decide tomorrow that folk music is cool again, it would be what we call a nice problem to have. But nobody's waiting for it to happen. They're taking matters into their own hands.

It has spurred a lot of new interest. I am getting more and more calls every day.

Keith Brooking

It helps us a lot ? and not just because of the enthusiasm it gives us. It causes problems for the opponent. They have to call timeouts. They have false starts. All those things are very big.

It has gotten easier to plan the tournament as the years have passed. People are calling to put their team into the tournament.

Mitchell Reiss

I think all of us are pretty disappointed with the abdication of responsibility by many unionist leaders, ... No political party, and certainly no responsible political leadership, deserves to serve in a government unless it cooperates and supports fully and unconditionally the police, and calls on its supporters to do so.

I think our coaches did a good job of calling plays, we just need to do a better job of executing. We had some opportunities, but that's what you get with a young team.

Deron Williams

I just tried to stay in front of him and not foul. I just tried to put my hands up and hopefully they didn't call a foul.

Rachel Platten

I have volunteered for Musicians on Call for the past 12 years because of the incredible one-on-one experiences in hospital rooms when no one other than the patient and I would remember the love that was exchanged.

I just hope that someone watching the Nancy Grace show will remember something and call the detectives. Or that the person that did it will see it and think, maybe it's time I give this family some closure.

I just don't think they ever call it,