Famous Quotes & Sayings

The money has been rolling in. People have been calling and we haven't even started working on fundraising yet.

William Shakespeare

Do you think I am easier to be played on than a pipe? Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me.

During that stretch, we just went to a motion offense. We stopped calling plays, and we just let them play.

Deering did a great job. It was more of physical game than we expected. When they weren't calling fouls in the first half, we could score, but when they were calling fouls in the second half, we couldn't score.

Dean probably scares the market the most because he, for now at least, is calling for rolling back all of the tax cuts.

The supervisor who made the call has not been reassigned. He has been disciplined and it will go on his record. They felt it was an unintentional mistake and they felt he wasn't profiting from this.

Paul Graham

The Summer Founders Program fixes the common problem with working at a startup, which is that it's very lonely. You do nothing but work and sleep and no one understands the situation you are in, and friends don't know why it takes three days for you to call them back.

The speaker has said if you get 50 members who sign a letter calling for elections, we'll have elections. Mr. Reynolds is not one of those people.

The spacecraft has been programmed to continue even in the event of an emergency. We don't want Cassini to call home if a problem arises, we want it to keep going.

The thing we were doing with our initial visits was to call on retailers who don't have policies to create one.

The thing this meeting will do is generate phone calls because the topics all have been discussed individually and now we're discussing them together.

LenDale White

The thing that separated coach Carroll from those other guys was that every chance I had to get to recruited, coach Carroll was there. The first time he could come see me, he was there. The first time he could call me, he called. It was things like that. I just felt way more comfortable here.

Gene Luen Yang

The thing about research is that there's no end. You constantly have this fear that an expert who knows more than you will call you out on some detail in your book.

I've lost everything. My suits, my work clothes, my furniture; I even have to call the paper and tell them to stop delivering.

Jeff Tweedy

I've never considered us a country band, ... Even after this record, people still call us a country band. Have they listened to this record?

I've made over 60 calls and I've not gotten one no. But you know me, I'm a salesman.

I've made clear my commitment to Northwestern. I'm not a 1-800 guy, calling everybody. Does everybody have a price? Sure. But there's a value in the kind of kids I get to coach, the institution I represent, where I live. I don't know if there's a better job.

Jon Daniels

I've made calls and received calls. A lot of notes and a lot of conversations. But at this point I don't expect anything to materialize.

I've never been a guy caught up in numbers. If you call my number and you throw me a ball, chances are I'm going to make a play.

Ed Belfour

I've let in a lot of weird goals, ... Fluky ones, whatever you want to call it, but they're ones I don't normally let in. There are a lot more shots coming at the net and guys are just shooting it at the net because they have more time and pucks are going in off legs and feet and shoulders and heads, so you might have to play out a little further on the shot and hope it hits you.

Jimmy Chamberlin

I've learned that you can call it a band, but unless everyone is contributing, it's not, really. It's pretending that it's a band.

Jon Favreau

I've always wanted to call the shots because I would rather fail than not have a chance to figure it out on my own.

I've always let my catchers call pitches. If she gets into a pattern, I may step in. But I think it helps keep their mind in the game.

I used to get several telemarketing calls a day.

Daryl Hall

I've always been a spontaneous singer. And all the stuff that you hear on the end of the songs, what they call the ad libs - that just comes out of my head. That's not thought out at all. I have the verses and the choruses, and then after that it's total improvisation.

I wanted to go; I didn't want to call a timeout. But that's our system. That's how we practice. We trusted the system, and it just didn't work out that time.

Marc Garneau

I wanted to further my education, so I went on to get a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and came back and served about ten years in the Canadian Navy as what we call a combat systems engineer.

Thank goodness his mom was OK. He couldn't just call down there, and he couldn't go down there (for several days).

Sue Simmons

Thank you, Elizabeth, ... Or as we call her, Biff.

Sometime Thursday morning, we heard helicopters outside. Then I heard someone calling my name 'Williams! Deborah Williams!' and I knew we were saved. We all started hugging each other, and soldiers started coming in from the roof.

Sometimes you have close calls and don't think anything of it, but it's a near miss really.

Sam Phillips

Teenagers did not have, before rock 'n' roll and rhythm-and-blues - they did not have any type of music they could call their own once they got over 4 or 5 years old until they were well into their 20's and considered adults.

Daniel Alfredsson

Ted wanted this vote to make sure everybody was on board. He had the support of the players on the conference call (Monday), but he thought we should have the vote so that everybody feels comfortable with him.