Famous Quotes & Sayings

Russell Baker

Can't anything be done about calling these guys student athletes? That's like referring to Attila the Hun's cavalry as ""weekend warriors

Calling your fans a 12th man is one thing.

Alan Rickman

Calling this production 'postponed' does not disguise the fact that it has been cancelled.

Calling snap elections that would create a political vacuum just to save face should be avoided.

Paul Kurtz

Calling for stronger security in the context of terrorism is a mistake. I think it is a mistake because the implication is that it is the government's responsibility to solve the problem. The government can?t defend all these networks.

Jim Otto

calling a friend, a Placer County Sheriff's deputy (Ryan Berry). She knew I was home. For a moment, I evidently came to and picked up the phone but could hardly talk. I just moaned. She knew something had happened.

Ray Emery

By their reaction and the referee calling it right away, I thought it was in. I'll take it. It's a good bounce, for sure. Luck was on our side tonight.

I never like calling a game before the scheduled game time, but this was about as heavy a rain as I've seen here. We checked with the weatherman and Doppler radar and we would have needed 3 or 4 hours of sunlight for the field to be ready.

David Trimble

I must make it clear that the calling of the meeting does not mean that we have committed ourselves to endorsing any set of proposals.

I'm telling you right now, there were five cars out here and most of them had two flat tires. It was nuts. These people were all coming in here and calling for wreckers and going back out in the rain to change their tires. And there were more people on the side of the road with flat tires.

I'm not sure it was a cheap shot. It was marginal hitting from behind, and you can tell by the philosophy that he (the referee) had that he wasn't calling very much.

Alan Stern

I?m calling the discovery of the two new satellites the first scientific result of New Horizons.

I'm calling into question consistently, since I've been on the board, a lack of the communication from you with regard to people that have been dismissed from the university.

Peter Moore

I'm calling a $100 million day on 'Halo' today.

I'm calling 2006 a simmering-down process. It's been one heck of a run.

Warrick Dunn

I just think we can have a long-lasting effect on people's lives if we can do things together instead of as individuals, ... I just felt like when you're sitting at home and everyone's calling you and everyone's pretty much in distress, it's like, 'I have to do something.'

Joe Girardi

I just think they're excited. Miguel Cabrera unloaded the bags. He was calling out the numbers. It was kind of humorous.

Ron Wilson

I just said, 'Why aren't you guys calling the right stuff?' And that was enough to get a penalty. Some of the calls were very questionable, at best. It was a very frustrating night from that point of view, but we can't control what the referees decide to call.

Andy Roddick

I really wasn't too worried about him but... I just heard when people were calling out and stuff, giving cat-calls and stuff. I kind of felt for him a little bit.

Hines Ward

I remember he got in the huddle and a couple offensive linemen couldn't hear the play because he was talking real softly. He was looking down, calling plays off his wristband, and a lot of people couldn't read his lips. So it was a long day.

Jacquelyn Jablonski

I remember hearing other models talk about going to castings for Givenchy, and I was like, 'What are they saying?' And then I realized and was like, 'Oh, the Give-in-chee one.' I had been calling it Give-in-chee the whole time. I was shocked.

I remember feeling cold and them calling for a heating unit. Then I heard the phone call the PA made to the doctor. I could pick up some of the stuff she was saying. I wasn't good.

Robin Wright

I remember calling directors numerous times and saying, 'Oh, you should cast so-and-so instead of me. They're much better for the role.'

Gary Kubiak

I look at what we do and what we teach and see him fitting into that very quickly. He can make plays off schedule and in this league, as a coach, you're not calling the perfect play all the time. When you don't, you want a kid who can go out there and keep you on the field and make things happen. That's something he possesses.

Brian Billick

I'll throw my mantra out there again. I'm calling on the fans to step to another level,

Sylvester Croom

I'll tell you what. I have met old guys who played for him at Kentucky and I never met them before and let me tell you something, it's a calling card. If someone played for Coach Bryant, you immediately respected the guy.

I know it's tough for him. I get the feeling, just from talking to him, that he wants to play, and I don't think he'd be calling us updating us on the situation as much as he is if he didn't want to play.

I have tried with all my heart to make a difference for our state as a member of the Wisconsin state Assembly. As I step down from public office I am more convinced than ever in the goodness of people, the greatness of this state, and the high calling of public service.

Ron Wilson

Hey, they're calling penalties as advertised. Everyone's still shocked, 'Why are they calling penalties in the playoffs?' They're supposed to because they want to work, and Gary Bettman was here so, hello! I mean it doesn't take a rocket scientist or even a sportswriter to figure that one out.

He's really just calling in the plays. But, sometimes I need to hear it one or two (extra) times and he gets kind of irritated with me. He's pretty good with that thing. I just have to tell him he doesn't have to yell in it, he just has to talk.

I don't know if we're calling it a day. ... We've not stopped for 10 years. We always swore if it wasn't 100 percent fun, we'd stop it.

I didn't see it so I thought he was calling me out, but Jason said to me it (the contact from Hill) was all right.

J. I. Packer

Our high and privileged calling is to do the will of God in the power of God for the glory of God.