Out of the blue, Jason called me up one day.
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Jason Smith is an awfully good player. He's a mentally tough kid, and we believe in him.
LENNIE ACUFF Cupid," Jason called, "where are you?"
'Where you least expect me,' Cupid answered. 'As love al...
RICK RIORDAN Out of the clear blue sky, they called and said we've got three children for you.
SARAH ALLEN One of my major competitors was Harold Smith. Smith beat me in 1977. I was loafing during that compe...
EDWIN MOSES I adore Eddie Kaye Thomas and Jason Biggs. Eddie was the only one who called me when they were doing...
NATASHA LYONNE We get rated down by homeowners associations because we have no slums.
DAY ONE Everyone loves the David and Goliath story, but if Goliath had slain David, it'd never have made the...
DAY ONE I've been coming here since Day One, ... Watching games at home is no fun. It's boring. Here, we get...
DAY ONE If it was $10 a gallon, I'd be buying it today since you can't get it anywhere else,
DAY ONE Get every drop in there. Can't lose none,
DAY ONE big, medium and small.
DAY ONE Yes, look, I don't think I can explain this any better to you, but we don't want to ... Well, I gues...
DAY ONE Amy: Up.
Rory: What good's up?
Amy: Better than down.
-Doctor Who
STEVEN MOFFAT Amy called and said that Jared was in a terrible accident. She didn't have any of the details.
BRENT NELSON I think that one of my favorite movie roles has been a film that I did with Jason Statham that was o...
REGGIE LEE Where the blue of the nightMeets the gold of the day,Someone waits for me.
BING CROSBY I called him out of the blue, made an offer. He made a counter-offer and I took it.
MAX ISAKSEN Oh, and I [Amy] may also have told him that I quite fancied Dr Smith [The Doctor]. Which in the 1780...
JAMES GOSS All your life you're yellow. Then one day you brush up against something blue, the barest touch, and...
TESS CALLAHAN Amy Pond: 'I thought... well, I started to think you were just a madman with a box.'
The Doctor...
STEVEN MOFFAT People walk up and down there every day, two or three hundred people, and if that horse was out ther...
JEFFREY SHARON I just gave up one day. Around the time the news about toxic shock came out. I thought, Fuck me, man...
ANNE LAMOTT Where the blue of the night
Meets the gold of the day,
Someone waits for me.
BING CROSBY What in the blue star-blazes did you see in Jason?" he asked, still forcefully but with his frustrat...
ROWENA CHERRY Rory: Amy. I'm gonna need a little help here.
Amy: Just stop it!
Rory: Just think it throu...
STEVEN MOFFAT He knows me better than anyone ever has. Than anyone ever will again. I would have stopped it if I c...
AMY ENGEL I missed it by one day when I was with Florida in 1998. I got called up when the Marlins were in Col...
BRIAN DAUBACH The Doctor: Amy, what are you doing?
Amy: That gravestone, Rory's, there's room for one more na...
STEVEN MOFFAT Jason Behr and Amanda Brooks were cool to work with. Jason and I are fast friends to this day.
CRAIG ROBINSON I swear on BB5, one of them got evicted out of the blue.
KENZIE [The Doctor] pulled the thing out of Prince Boris's mouth, waving it around. 'Oh. Blimey. This is no...
JAMES GOSS Meet Tony. My first chest hair. I called him Tony as he’s Tony one I got,” Connor laughed.
...
MARK A. COOPER You're just another american who is willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue dick being sho...
GEORGE CARLIN I'm incredibly grateful for this opportunity. Every day I'm at work and I look out at the ocean and ...
DANIEL DAE KIM Every year I sent her stuff for our camps and asked her to come out. Her mom just called out of the ...
AMY JOHNSON I started teaching myself guitar because I loved singing so much. Then one day kind of out of the bl...
KINA GRANNIS Soon after I returned to private practice, former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger called m...
FRED F. FIELDING I've always dreamed of growing up to be Amy Poehler.
AMY POEHLER Every day each of us wakes up, reaches into drawers and closets, pulls out a costume for the day and...
MARY SCHMICH The fact is always obvious much too late, but the most singular difference between happiness and joy...
J.D. SALINGER I prayed for the city to be cleared of people, for the gift of being alone—a-l-o-n-e: which is the...
J.D. SALINGER She called here to tell us that Donnie was in Riverside because he was having problems with depressi...
CRYSTAL PHILLIPS The two that jump out to me are Jason Morton's offensive rebounding work and Thomas Sander's offensi...
BOB MCKILLOP Jason talking about Michael -
"Don't do me any favors, Glass Ass," Jason snapped.
RACHEL CAINE I put the photo in an album called Mortifying Emotional Moments, and I title it Soggy Napkin Note. T...
TARRYN FISHER One of nurses called me and reported it. She actually witnessed it being taken out of the sharps box...
LINDA ANTUONO Gary is one lucky guy to have Amy.
DEE ANDERSON I wanted to like 'Up in the Air' - I like Jason Reitman - but Vera Farmiga left me cold.
ANDY KINDLER Then one day in 1992 out of the clear blue I got a call from a woman who wanted me to speak with her...
DEAN CHASE Are you happy, Ivy?' he asks, surprising me.
In my whole life, I don't think anyone ever asked ...
AMY ENGEL [Amy] pulled a face. 'Honestly, when you grow up you'll learn you may as well try herding cats as ke...
JAMES GOSS To be compared to Will Smith is probably one of the coolest things because that's who I came up ...
NICK CANNON A word about blue jeans, which, when I was growing up, were called dungarees, one of the more unfort...
ROGER STONE And the other thing that's happened is that people who have eaten at their restaurant in Arlington h...
WILLIAM BOOKER Me and Kai started it. On the first day, he called me up and said, 'We should work together, do it.'...
JOE BARNARD [King has called Xavier University's decision to sell the station] one of the saddest days of my pro...
JAMES KING I didn't see it so I thought he was calling me out, but Jason said to me it (the contact from Hill) ...
MATT GEYER The world at large doesn't always make sense to me, and there are safe havens. Linda Manz in ...
NATASHA LYONNE A friend called me up the other day and talked about investing in a dot-com that sells lobsters. Int...
DONALD TRUMP At one point, I didn't get out of bed for, I think, three months, and I went down to the bottom ...
TANYA TUCKER If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.
ROBERT G. INGERSOLL If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL What shocked me, my manager called me up one day and told me that I was going to do a video on "Cold...
JAMES DOOHAN Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. ...
H. L. MENCKEN Reigning doctrines are often called a "double standard".The term is misleading.It is more accurate t...
NOAM CHOMSKY People fall in and out of love with the rising and setting of the sun. Rather like a boy who loves t...
RENEE AHDIEH Commemoration of Amy Carmichael, Founder of the Dohnavur Fellowship, 1951 One can give without lov...
AMY CARMICHAEL 'At the Gates of the Animal Kingdom' by Amy Hempel showed me the lean quality of prose.
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Any conversation with Smith turned up at least one bit of human behavior which could not be justifie...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Amy helped me out so much during my first year here. She is my co-captain and an amazing leader for ...
BOB CONKLING Trust In Every Words,
And You Will Believe In Your Works.
EIZZA ZAIZALNIZAM I called coach Smith [after the interview], and he asked me how I felt. I said, 'relieved.' He said,...
ROY WILLIAMS An insult is mean or unkind. Milton Berle called me the Sultan of Insult, and I was called the King ...
DON RICKLES OMG! I DESIGNED THIS NEW SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM! IT'S CALLED "POETRY" - YOU HAVE TO READ AMY KING'S P...
AMY KING Again the market foolishly priced in all the upside, all the blue sky on day one ... all on the back...
ARTHUR LIM Many people hear voices when no-one is there. Some of them are called mad and are shut up on rooms w...
WILLIAM SAROYAN Many people hear voices when no one is there. Some of them are called mad and are shut up in rooms w...
MARGARET CHITTENDEN At the end of the day, you have to go out on the grass and perform.
KIRBY SMART I have all of these lives that I want the music to live, but at the end of the day, it's out the...
JACK ANTONOFF I went out for a film where they wanted seven brothers and one sister, so I was there for half a day...
ARCHIE PANJABI If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL A lie will raise me up, and one day another lie will bring me down.
VICTORIA AVEYARD One of the things we came across was Street & Smith Sports Business Journal rated this the seventh-b...
JASON FREIER There are brown eyes in the world, after all, as well as blue, and one pair of brown that meant heav...
E. NESBIT Jason knew his life would never be the same again. British intelligence now had an ace up their slee...
MARK A. COOPER My first girlfriend broke up with me on a yellow legal pad. After she picked me up from the airport ...
MAX WINKLER There never was one particle of... jealousy... in the heart of Hyrum Smith.
HEBER J. GRANT Fashion will take on added stature one day, but try not to be stifled by it. You will learn, as you ...
VICTORIA BECKHAM Amy Lee's little brother has epilepsy, so it kind of hits close to home for me,
BEN MOODY he taught me the subject called love...n ended up with the subject called as hate...
RAHUL JAISWAL Amy: Hey, Paisley, Ever fancied someone you know you shouldn't?
Bracewell: What?
Amy: Hur...
MARK GATISS A second later the door opened and Murphy glared up at me, blue eyes bright and cold. "Get more away...
JIM BUTCHER Jason has come up in situations and you say, 'We need a home run' and he's hit one. That's storybook...
JOE TORRE My husband called from work; I had just gotten up. When he told me what happened I turned on the tel...
CRAIG DAVID The horse was moaning and (Smith) was moaning, ... He looked up at me, and he had a bad look on his ...
CHRIS CLARK One of the makeup artists once dyed my dog blue with vegetable blue.
MIA KIRSHNER He was... wearing a tasselled velvet nightcap that I [Amy] noticed the Doctor eyeing up. If Boris di...
JAMES GOSS Interconnection permeates the entire universe. We are all one.
AMY LEIGH MERCREE Adam Smith pointed out that there were three things that make us more prosperous, in a general sort ...
P. J. O'ROURKE This is out of the blue. Everything you could have messed up, we messed up out there. These guys hav...
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(Tan is the author of what became T...
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AMY VANDERBILT We don't really know much about their condition, ... other than that they had some bear bites and po...
AMY VANDERBILT but if they were, I don't think they used it. There just wasn't time.
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AMY LOWELL You are ice and fire the touch of you burns my hands like snow.
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Shows sof'ness in the upper story!
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AMY TAN I have a writer's memory which makes everything worse than maybe it actually was.
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AMY TAN I saw my mother in a different light. We all need to do that. You have to be displaced from what'...
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AMY TAN God, life changes faster than you think.
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AMY SEDARIS People who shop in health food stores never look healthy.
AMY SEDARIS I wouldn't call myself a shut-in. I have the ability to leave my home; I just choose not to. But...
AMY SEDARIS I think it's still kind of weird to memorize a line, because you're supposed to 'be'...
AMY SEDARIS More men than women like 'Strangers With Candy'. Pretty girls don't like the show. They ...
AMY SEDARIS I like crafts that are made out of necessity because they're a little naive - you made it becaus...
AMY SEDARIS I'm gonna do the whole bedroom in camel color - it's an old lady color.
AMY SEDARIS If I put my mind to something, it happens. I do know that's not necessarily psychic. But I alway...
AMY SEDARIS You know when you watch old movies, it's always the small parts you remember, the character acto...
AMY SEDARIS Sometimes, to keep things exciting, I decorate my house as if I owned a child. I'll toss a tiny ...
AMY SEDARIS But I always like to play ugly people who think they're pretty.
AMY SEDARIS My father and I have a very good relationship. We always got along. But I always scold him.
AMY SEDARIS When people tell me they are going to go scrapbooking, I say, 'Why don't you make it yoursel...
AMY SEDARIS Books are challenging and inspirational to me.
AMY SEDARIS I love costumes. My dream growing up was always to have my own costume and prop shop.
AMY SEDARIS I love theatrical props: a cup filled with solid fake tea, say, or a collection of fake food, includ...
AMY SEDARIS I like crafts that come out of poverty or necessity. There used to be hobby shops where you'd ge...
AMY SEDARIS I like to decide the night before Thanksgiving that I'm gonna do it, and I'll see what riff ...
AMY SEDARIS We're all used to seeing pretty people. I want to see real people.
AMY SEDARIS My favorite things often have a story behind them and are usually handmade or discovered at a flea m...
AMY SEDARIS I have always wanted a bunny and I'll always have a rabbit the rest of my life.
AMY SEDARIS I got this second chance at life, and I live it.
AMY PURDY