Famous Quotes & Sayings

Andy Reid

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

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

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.

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

Dennis Hastert

On this historic day, it is a high honor and rather humbling that a great number of my colleagues have come to me and urged me to lead the House into the 21st century, ... It is a calling that I have not sought. However, it is a duty that I cannot ignore.

Stu Jackson

A flagrant foul is unnecessary and excessive. And in my mind, that's what that was. It was an unnecessary play, and it was excessive in how hard he hit him. The referee did the right thing in calling a Flagrant 2.

Brett Butler

A female president - maybe they'd start calling it the Ova Office

Philipp Meyer

After I finished college, I got a job on Wall Street as a derivatives trader, but after a couple years of it, I was calling in sick in order to work on my novel.

Jason Newsted

A couple years ago I was going to back off and actually thought about retiring, but it keeps calling me back, and I'm going to keep going back as long as it calls me. I really think it has something to do with the good vibes that I feel I've spread through my performance and through the time that I've spent with fans.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

Sometime around 2006, I decided I had missed my true calling as a young adult author.

Someone shouts food fight; food starts flying; management comes and tells us to get out or we're calling the police.

Special teams in the playoffs are always huge. The power play and penalty kill are always going to win you games, especially if they keep calling penalties like this and there's going to be a lot of them.

Black Elk

Now and then the voices would come back when I was out alone, like someone calling me, but what they wanted me to do I did not know.

Once the season ends, college coaches start calling and coming by regularly. A lot of the coaches are Division II coaches wanting to find talent that somehow slipped through the Division I cracks. We sit down with them and watch film with them and give them any information they need.

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

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.

Coach (Jack) Easley scouted this game, and our kids were calling the plays just like (Nebraska) were. We were energized and when you play good defense it helps your offense and when you play good offense it helps your defense.

Kyle Lowry

Coach was calling the plays and telling me to make plays. I just do what he says.

Coach was calling the plays and I was making my shots.

O. Henry

Co-division champs. That's what I'm calling it, ... I can understand why there isn't (a playoff) but, frankly, I would have liked to have had one. It would have been nice to settle the division championship.

They're national treasures now. I keep calling Dawn French 'Dame Dawn'. I'm sure she'll become Queen one day!

All of you are able to go back to your quiet homes at the end of the day. I don't have that luxury. I thought about calling you at 5:30 in the morning Easter Sunday when the rooster started crowing for three straight hours, because I figured if I had to be up, you should have to be up, too.

Phil Jackson

They still have the defense as their calling card, but they have released and liberated the offense.

They started calling the White House about 11 a.m., and didn't stop until 2 a.m..

They seem to be doing much better today, but they're not calling it contained.

A lot of people are calling for a correction since we've had a pretty uninterrupted run since mid-November, and that would actually be healthy for the market, ... But when you hear everyone forecasting a big correction, it often doesn't happen.

Don Zimmer

A lot of companies are calling for availability, but we're committed to FEMA.

Noam Chomsky

The U.S. - the idea that the U.S. has introduced and imposed principles of international law, that's hardly even a joke. The United States has even gone so far as to veto Security Council resolutions calling on all states to observe international law. That was in the 1980s under Reagan.

Adam Sandler

The Wedding Singer will be the first time I've done a movie and Farley won't be calling me up the night it opens.

Bengie Molina

The way they let me go without a notice, without calling me, that said a lot.