Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Key

I was really fascinated by politics. It always has been part of my view that politics really is a calling or you wouldn't go into it, because it's demanding and potentially has a toll on you and your family.

Kofi Annan

There are no excuses, ... If we are to show ourselves worthy of calling ourselves members of humankind, we must rise to this challenge. Our response will be no less than a measure of our humanity.

Certainly, if they are going to be calling the games the way they have been, then our power play is going to have to work.

Cell phones make a lot of sense from a certain standpoint. They're great for calling and for a certain kind of e-mail. But if you want to experience cyberspace in any meaningful way you can't do it with a cell phone.

Linda Chavez

But I've also been around this town long enough to know that when nobody is calling you and saying, 'Hang in there,' that isn't a great signal either,

Justin Hawkins

Chris Martin - what are those seven deadly sins again? Greed? Sloth? Calling your child Apple?

I looked over at coach and she said 'go.' That's what we did. It was a confidence thing, and the coach had enough confidence in the team to get it done without calling a timeout.

Derek Fisher

More scoring. That's what the league wants. Calling those fouls up front leads to more penetration, maybe more free throws. It's one way to get more points on the scoreboard.

Helio Castroneves

My dad is down there. He's the one who's calling the shots.

No, I'm going to need live-in help. I was thinking of calling my mom. I know she'd come, but she's got this trip to Ireland next month with her friends; it's something they've been planning for two years, and I'd hate to...

Oakland has been calling the Vikings since the last day of the season about obtaining Randy. I don't think either the Falcons or Ravens could have come up with what the Vikings needed to make the trade.

Jeff Jarvis

Now that's a case of the pot calling the kettle metal.

Roy Spence

From our gut feeling and from visits to consumers, there's this calling out of lifting people up again.

Felix Pie

I don't think about them calling me up. When I come to the park, I think, 'Win, play.

If any one of us woke up in the morning with our leg feeling the way his does every day, we'd be calling 9-1-1. I don't know how he does it. I guess he's just gotten used to it over the years.

Patterson Hood

I don't think people are going to be calling it 'Southern rock,'

I felt it coming. I started calling timeouts to try and stop it. They swarm you. There is never a time when they aren't pressuring you.

If I need a new offense, I'll research it by viewing a tape or calling a college coach.

I feel confident in calling any of the pitches because I think she's developed more confidence.

Doug Ellin

I can tell something clicked because people are constantly e-mailing and calling and saying they want to do the show, ... But it wasn't like we consciously went out and said, 'This is gonna be our big year.'

I can't really criticize because I really don't know the fine line of detail that goes with officiating. Am I biased? Of course I'm biased. I always want it to go in Tampa Bay's favor. But sometimes it doesn't happen that way. And the officials have officials looking over their shoulder, too. So I'm sure they're calling it right down the middle.

John Callahan

I found that I was calling plays depending upon the terrain as much as anything,

Chris Henderson

I'd like to be quicker off my feet, ... You're always working on being quicker when you're a catcher. Mentally, I'll continue to work on calling games. You've got to be in the game at all times.

Sarah Baker

I don't go around calling myself a fat girl. It doesn't feel fun to me.

Dan Alderson

I don't know necessarily if we're calling it a rebuilding season. Our expectations are always the same. I think a lot of people may have counted us out, but we'll gladly take that role.

I credit the officials. They did a really good job of calling fouls in the post and cleaning it up right away down there. Obviously, whenever you go to a zone, it limits inside play and dares them to shoot outside.

Benjamin Netanyahu

I am calling on all those who grasp the danger: gather strength and do the right thing. I don't know if the entire move can be stopped, but it still might be stopped in its initial stages.

I am in the middle of calling people right now. We may have to start getting gas from Rocky Top,

The protocol is they should be calling us because they're the home team. Football is new to Indianapolis, so maybe they don't understand the protocols of the NFL as much as they understand basketball.

We have a signed contract. We're prohibited from picketing or calling a boycott.

We understand you communicated with us by calling several different locations. Our inability to talk has been a concern for us as it's been for you.

Bjorn Lomborg

A review was published in Nature, very scathing, essentially calling me incompetent, though they didn't use that word. I am putting a reply on my Web site in a few days, where I go through their arguments, paragraph by paragraph.

Utah Phillips

When I was in Utah there, first learning the kind of music I love, my favorite singer was T. Texas Tyler. So my friend, Norman Ritchie, the traveling teenage sage, started calling me U. Utah Phillips.