Famous Quotes & Sayings

We get a lot of phone calls about people having this or that for sale. We look at a lot of deals. We pass on 10 times the ones that we do. Some work for us, some don't.

Jon Anderson

We get a lot of calls at this time of the year when everyone is greasing their reels and tying flies wondering what lakes are being planted with trout.

Steve Mann

We get a lot of calls about why (a certain) film isn't playing. For the most part it's up to us, but there's a lot of exception to that. People don't understand that a lot of films we think would be successful in Brainerd, but it's not in the film distributors' marketing plan.

We get a lot more phone calls and a lot more recommendations. I think we have a lot more kids interested as a result of having some early success. Hopefully, that will pay off.

Chauncey Billups

We had control, but we missed a couple shots, they made a couple, a couple of calls didn't go our way and they got back in it. They won it with a good shot from Paul Pierce. Tough shot.

We made it 4-3 and unfortunately we got a couple of calls after that we didn't like and they scored on the power play. They got a pretty good power play.

We haven't gotten calls from people who've said, 'I've seen them here or there.

We haven't faced anything like this either. We'd be getting a lot of calls from people who'd be traumatized.

The one who pays the piper calls the tune

Right after the hurricane hit, we had calls from our members saying we should do something.

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.

Rabih Alameddine

Nobody ever calls me a soccer-playing writer, even though I play soccer and it's part of who I am.

Tony Dungy

No. 1, we had some penalties that we don't usually have, and No. 2, we had a crew that calls about 20 or 25 a game and they tried to get to their average, ... Some of those were not penalties.

One of the impediments to the enforcement of hooking and holding and interference was the diving, ... Or the embellishment of those calls to draw a penalty.

We have volunteers coming in a couple nights a week already to be making phone calls and talking to voters.

Roger Stone

Big brother listening in on your phone calls - I got a problem with that.

Bill Gates

I think five or six years ago, if you'd said to people that software would be incredible in terms of making photos better, music better, TV better, phone calls very different, they would have been quite skeptical, they would have thought, 'How can software do that? Now, particularly in music and to some degree in TV, they've seen that it makes a huge difference. It allows them to pick the things that they're interested in, it allows them to see it when they want to, to share with friends what they've seen and what they like.

I saw it and I questioned it, and (the male employee) said that's what everybody calls it.

I saw Red at his home (Monday), and he's very excited about the team. We have a red seat reserved for him. When he isn't ill, he comes. And he calls the next day to say what we should do different.

Our guys aren't perfect. They strive for excellence and calls do get missed. But I guess the difference is that some of those calls are missed because we're human beings, and previously they were missed because we picked and chose.

Parents make tough calls every single day, and part of being a parent is knowing that sometimes the things you do will work and sometimes they won't work.

That calls for a lot of speculation. We're not even sure what species the shark was.

Marian McPartland

that evening with 30-year-old Jason Moran. It turns out they've played together before -- on McPartland's show, at the Monterey Jazz Festival, and on what McPartland calls ''several casual dates here and there.

My opinion is we're seeing market liquidations of many of the former high-flying Internet stocks, ... A lot of the stocks are down. Margin calls happen when stocks decline by more than 35 percent. And we're seeing more than 35-percent declines in many former high flyers.

Gavin Henson

My mum calls Gavin Prince Charming and he's just perfect. He's laid back, patient, and he's lush. He's gorgeous and a real sweetheart. It's perfect,

My wife calls this 'national Jim Flynn week,' so she just writes me off.

My phone has been ringing off the hook, family and friends, you get calls from scouts from teams you didn't even know were interested. It's been pretty busy, but I've been mostly just trying to relax. The past two weeks I've been traveling and meeting with teams. I'm just relaxing back here now.

Matt has offered his front desk staff to make phone calls reminding people to go vote on Tuesday.

Marblehead deserves a lot of credit for coming back like they did. They have a very good record, and they came at us in the third (period). I thought we got the short end of the officiating, as there were some calls I just didn't understand. There should've been a whistle right before Marblehead's fourth goal, and there were two players on top of my goalie on their fifth goal. Our kids left it all on the ice, and I couldn't be prouder of them.

Well, the sheriff's station got some calls and some leads and they followed those up but unfortunately it's nothing yet.

We'll still pick people up after that as long as they get their calls in to us by then. We're still delivering people until 2 or 2:30 in the morning.

What we've been through the last four years makes me sick. Everybody around here calls me 'Grumpy,' and I've become that way as a direct result of our record since I've been here.

What we're trying to do is work systematically through all the calls we've received. Not every call represents an individual.