Famous Quotes & Sayings

For me, not owning a car means I may spend a little extra time on public transportation, but I can use that time to read, catch up on work projects, and make the phone calls I couldn't get to earlier. Plus, I never waste time at the mechanics or gas station.

Phillip Daniels

But that's how it is in this league. You can't leave it up to the officials to make those kinds of calls because they're human, too. They're going to make mistakes. The official thought he got in, so he got in. We've just got to make up for it when we go back.

But there is that smaller number of calls where seconds and minutes are critical.

Basically, you're getting unlimited phone calls from someone who is a junior. Once it progresses, the phone calls and visits become more important.

Laura Mvula

'Mvula' is my married name, but for some reason my nan calls me 'McVula.' I'm not sure if it's one of those jokey Caribbean things, or whether she's just getting it wrong.

Jayma Mays

My husband calls me a ginger every single day of my life, so that I'm completely used to it, and I've come to see it as a term of endearment.

Elvis Costello

My family calls me Declan. But most people call me E.C. I think it comes from my dad. It's an Irish convention. You usually call the first child by the initials.

My faith calls me to leave the world a better place than when I entered it.

Mitchell Reiss

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.

Now, when someone calls and says, 'You haven't picked up my trash,' we can get on the computer and find out how long it took us to pick up the trash after they called,

William Watson

Obviously the people feel it was too much of an increase, and we have to listen to the voters. In the next couple of days we'll make some phone calls and find out what people wanted. We'll need to come as close to a 0 percent increase as we can.

Cate Blanchett

Obviously, if Woody Allen calls and says he wants you to read a script, of course you read it.

Jacques Chirac

France strongly condemns this crime ... (and) calls for an international inquiry to be held without delay to determine the circumstances of, and responsibility for, this tragedy, before punishing the culprits.

Friction calls are some of the most realistic calls there are.

Freund is facing aggravated stalking charges for a series of phone calls he made to young children while their parents were not home.

Jay Feaster

From all accounts, everyone who knows him calls him an incredible teammate and a true leader within the locker room. He is a perfect fit for our organization.

From his calls for retreat and defeat in Iraq to censuring the president, the senator is more consumed with his own political future than national security.

If a customer calls in and says, 'The network is down,' the service provider without having to send a truck roll can look at his network up to the customer.

If a guy tells you he no longer wants to be with you, but he still calls at odd hours of the night to ""hang out"", don't take that as a sign that he's still interested in you. The only thing he's interested in, is what's in between your thighs.

If an exchange fails to secure normal trading, this calls into question its purpose.

Jay McKee

I enjoy now more than ever turning on the TV at night and watching the other games. It's a much more exciting game. I certainly wish the calls wouldn't be so strict with the physical play, but we have made the adjustment.

I have been here over 20 years, and every year we get calls about fireworks. We will go out and issue citations and confiscate fireworks.

Craig Horner

I have a stunt double; his name is Glen Levy, and he has the hardest punch in the world. Seriously, it's actually been recorded by 'National Geographic.' He calls it the Hammer Fist.

I did get a few calls (asking) 'Are you sure it's the Madonna?

Alan Greenspan

I have gotten calls from a number of senior high-tech executives who are telling me that the market is dissolving rapidly before their eyes. But I suspect that a not inconceivable possibility is that what is dissolving in front of their eyes is their own personal net worth!

Tom Cole

I don't know a lot of Spanish, but I get calls (from other officers) all the time to translate.

I didn't make the connection as much until I started getting a lot of calls this week. I started to think of the parallels, and then when I read how their coach is handling this, it's kind of eerie.

I don't know that it's ever happened before that the state calls its star witness and obliterates him, to the point where the defense has nothing left to say but, 'You stole our script.

I don't know much about them. I've made a few phone calls and not had much luck. But we have to worry about us. If we take care of ourselves, that is all that matters.

Antawn Jamison

I don't care what he calls himself as long as we continue to win and he does his job. His job is to first come in and make my job and the rest of these guys' job easy. The guy is unbelievable and the scary thing is the sky's the limit. He's just scratching the surface and he's just learning how to play the game.

Jim Calhoun

I can feel the emotions start to build, ... I've had conversations with my first recruit at Northeastern, with eight kids from my Dedham High School team that won 21 straight games, a lot of phone calls from my former players ... it's an exciting time for me.

We've taken calls from people with vacant land ready to use, but we also look for existing mobile parks because they already have the utilities to hook into.

Alan Grayson

If you want people to support you, then you have to support them. You have to think long about what you did for people who voted for you, made phone calls for you, who went door to door for you.