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The chairmen ? their phones were just ringing off the hook.


Charles Collins

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Since the Culpepper announcement our phones have been ringing off the hook.
GEORGE TORRES I think your phones have been ringing off the hook concerning this bill.
JOHN KNIGHT We've had several calls and inquiries this morning. The phones down there are ringing off the hook.
CASS CLIATT Phones were ringing off the hook and e-mails were flying in fast and furiously, wanting to know abou...
JACKIE GULBE The phones have been ringing off the hook for these shows. We've been getting a lot of calls for the...
JENNIFER JACKOVITZ I can't think of a time over the last 17 years where the phones have been ringing off the hook quite...
SERGEI TROUBETZKOY The phone started ringing off the hook, ... The rest is history.
BYRON FERGUSON The phone has been ringing off the hook with calls from companies wanting to integrate their product...
MICHAEL SIMPSON We haven't had to ask anybody. My phone's been ringing off the hook.
AUDREY GREEN Whenever your phone is ringing off the hook, you know something good happened,
JASON GORE The night of the show, our phones literally rang off the hook.
JACK MOYER The filmmakers who I'm pining to work for aren't ringing my phone off the hook.
SEAN ASTIN The filmmakers who I'm pining to work for aren't ringing my phone off the hook.
SEAN ASTIN Word has not got out yet as to where the funeral is. When it does, my phone will be ringing off the ...
BARBARA CARTER Our phone's not ringing off the hook for a tax credit. But we are receiving lots of calls and commen...
MIKE MOWER I thought last year's probably was tougher, but we couldn't get some of those teams this year. Our p...
LARRY WATKINS I was there and all the walls were black and the phones were sitting there and not ringing and I was...
ALEX AGUILA Some of us in the medical profession have seen this coming and have been discussing this with patien...
CALVIN BROWN [Soon after he called his family.] The phone is ringing off the hook, and my poor 9-year-old is like...
MICHAEL CHIKLIS My phone has been ringing off the hook, family and friends, you get calls from scouts from teams you...
BRENT HAWKINS The phones weren't ringing much that night ... so I issued an on-air challenge for my company to mat...
BOB DAINO I can't ever hear him coming down the stairs, or the phone ringing off the hook from girls and frien...
ELLONIA BICKERS My phone has been ringing off the hook for new technology that is coming in such as a fuel additives...
DON ROSS The phone has been ringing off the hook, literaly nonstop. People who are here looking for food, age...
MICHAEL GUERRA Every phone in the place started ringing. We had between 30 to 50 phones calls in the newsroom and a...
ED BENNETT Chairmen prioritize legislation as it is reported out of their committees. Congressman Blunt will wo...
BURSON TAYLOR Instead of breaking that bridge, we should, if possible, provide another, that he may retire the so...
ARISTIDES ("THE JUST") We make war that we may live in peace.
ARISTIDES ("THE JUST") At one point, we probably had 70 cell phones ringing at once, ... It sounded like Bally's Park Place...
BRUCE PATTERSON It's weird, how much he's noticed me... And apparently, I have not been as oblivious to him as I ima...
SUZANNE COLLINS El Distrito 12, donde puedes morirte de hambre sin poner en peligro tu seguridad.
SUZANNE COLLINS We're stepping up negotiation with their captors so that they can be off the hook imminently.
ABEL OSHEVIRE I don't want a door bell. I don't want anyone ringing my door bell... seems to be intrusive....
MALCOLM GLADWELL Childhood is not dead. Children were worse off when we were hunter-gatherers; they were threatened i...
ROBERT WINSTON I don't look at this as being off the hook just because there aren't planes coming here.
ALAN AUTRY Certos passos você tem de dar sozinho.
SUZANNE COLLINS For the last year his grandma had been slipping in and out of reality. One minute she was as clear a...
SUZANNE COLLINS It's hard to hate my prep team. They're such total idiots." - Katniss.
SUZANNE COLLINS Not exactly. You see, Portia and I think that the coal miner thing's very overdone. No one will reme...
SUZANNE COLLINS I'm hard to catch. If they can't catch me they cant kill me. So don't count me out.
SUZANNE COLLINS Eu vou ser o Tordo.
SUZANNE COLLINS Desearia poder encontrar una forma de...de demostrarle al Capitolio que no les pertenezco, que soy a...
SUZANNE COLLINS It was 8:30 a.m. and I was still asleep when the hospital at UC Davis called. They had a liver for m...
ERIKKA CHANCEY It was 8:30 a.m. and I was still asleep when the hospital at UC Davis called. They had a liver for m...
ERIKKA CHANCEY We were probably one batter away from knocking him out. But we let him off the hook and he settled d...
BOBBY HALFORD nothing's news.
it's the same old thing in
disguise.
only one thing comes without a CHARLES BUKOWSKI Marian was a good team, but I just expected more from our kids coming off the St. Charles North win.
MARIANO MOLLO First of all, the chances that both guys are there (at the 13th pick) is virtually nonexistent. The ...
ERIC DECOSTA She crept up on me.
SUZANNE COLLINS I'm more than just a piece in their Games.
SUZANNE COLLINS We tried to get the ball out of Collins' hands and he still got off 27 shots.
DUGGAR BAUCOM Representative Cuellar has voted repeatedly to let corporate polluters off the hook.
ANDY SCHULTHEISS This town would be off the hook. It would be a blast.
CORY SCHLESINGER She doesn't recognize the number—none of her friends use their phones as phones anymore.
GABRIELLE ZEVIN At one point Thursday, we were lined up at the door with people wanting to donate money. We've calle...
JENNY LEHMAN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES My phone rang off the hook and I expect others had the same experience.
BILL BREWER What you do is let the other pitcher off the hook in a sense.
JOE GIRARDI We, being the Western world, wouldn't let Russia off the hook on debt. So there were demands on debt...
JEFFREY SACHS I'm a good catch!!! You fool if you let me off the hook!!!
PELLE Luis was a little over-aggressive there, ... We let them off the hook.
JOE TORRE We were sick about that. Kerry Collins is not the fastest guy, first of all.
VONNIE HOLLIDAY I sit in the sky like a sphinx misunderstood; My heart of snow is wed to the whiteness of swans; I h...
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE God seems to have left the receiver off the hook and time is running out.
ARTHUR KOESTLER You love me. Real or not real?"
I tell him, "Real.
SUZANNE COLLINS Tiny, searing stabs. Wherever the droplets of mist touch my skin.
"Run!" I scream at the others...
SUZANNE COLLINS In the old days in France, they had beheadings of people who commit heinous crimes, ... Nevada Newsm...
OSCAR GOODMAN Since we started with Power PR, the pace of sales activity in the first three months of this fiscal ...
JOEL BLETH It's really music. It's not just ringing bells.
JAMES MILLER Cell phone users are wanting to use their phones for so much more than just talking.
ERIN GIFFORD If we lose one unit, it takes 32 to 63 people off the phones.
BILL AYERS I knew once one person had one, their friend would get one, and their neighbor would get one and it ...
BRIAN FRIEDMAN The phone is an instrument of intrusion into order. It is a threat to control. Just when you think y...
JANICE GALLOWAY When they got to the airport, their credentials were not ready. Everybody got on their phones and in...
MARK MADISON Indeed, when people lose their cell phones, it's like losing their minds. And they forget who their ...
JAMES KATZ We would be interested in bidding if Collins & Aikman in the U.S. were to come up for sale,
WILBUR ROSS Hope is what makes you look outside the window to see if it's stopped raining. Hope is what makes yo...
JODI PICOULT Prince Charles and his son William worked off their Christmas dinner yesterday by trying to blast so...
JOHN MCEACHRAN In their six losses, three of them have been to the Collins twins. That's the key ingredient right t...
JASON COLLINS You've got to go through it to get to the end of it.
SUZANNE COLLINS It's so intimate. You can hear the cell phones go off, all that stuff, the spectators are so close. ...
KIM CLIJSTERS Cell phones were more popular in Cambodia and Uganda because they didn't have phones. We had pho...
NICHOLAS NEGROPONTE Jesus isn't lettin' you off the hook. The Scriptures don't let you off the hook so easil...
BONO Two girls came outside with cell phones threatening to call the cops and the guys took off.
ALYSA STEWART They were off their game a little and we were on our game, ... We just played some good football.
BRAD KASSELL Think about it. It's a Friday in July in Pittsburgh and it's 4:30. You don't sell season tickets on ...
TOM MCMILLAN When you get a chance to get out of inning and you have to get out of the inning. When we didn't mak...
GREG WAKEFIELD To be honest, I think cell phones were invented by the devil.
JOE HILL This schedule change avoids a meeting that spans the terms of two chairmen,
ALAN GREENSPAN The voice of flattery affects us after it has ceased, just as after a concert men find some agreeabl...
SENECA Teenagers are already playing simple games on their mobile phones and PlayStation is as big a hit in...
MARINUS POTMAN I think it's pretty unequivocal, this character does not get off the hook for his actions on any lev...
EDWARD NORTON We just turned the ball over. South Bend, once they started rolling their offense took off. We were ...
LARRY MOORE It's like for like, they've just picked another big No.6 to replace (Collins).
EDDIE JONES It's kind of entry-level active resistance. Phone companies don't cut off the phones. They don't hav...
BILL SULZMAN All this electromagnetic pollution in the air from the Internet and cell phones, it cuts you off fro...
THOMM QUACKENBUSH I was nervous, they were making shots and we weren't, and we were fouling them on drives. I thought ...
JAZZMINE GEORGE It is our duty not to let the state off the hook, and we will not concede to do without them.
DAVID MPANGA Four of the 12 were doing the mileage runs. They just basically got off the plane, got their boardin...
TONY PAGE We are the only team to start the season with 21 losses, so we are not going to be off the hook,
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SUZANNE COLLINS The mayor finishes the dreary Treaty of Treason and motions for Peeta and me to shake hands. His are...
SUZANNE COLLINS She reaches in, digs her hand deep into the ball, and pulls out a slip of paper. The crowd draws in ...
SUZANNE COLLINS When I break into the clearing, she's on the ground, hopelessly entangled in a net. She just has the...
SUZANNE COLLINS But I feel as if I did know Rue, and she'll always be with me. Everything beautiful brings her to mi...
SUZANNE COLLINS Peeta's awake already, sitting on the side of the bed, looking bewildered as the trio of doctors rea...
SUZANNE COLLINS He’s dozed off again, but I kiss him awake, which seems to startle him. Then he smiles as if he’...
SUZANNE COLLINS But Mockingjays were never a weapon," said Madge. "They’re just songbirds. Right?"

"Yea...
SUZANNE COLLINS Peeta, you were supposed to wake me after a couple of hours," I say.

"For what? Nothing's...
SUZANNE COLLINS It's impossible to be the Mockingjay. Impossible to complete even this one sentence. Because now I k...
SUZANNE COLLINS If Peeta and I were both to die, or they thought we were....My fingers fumble with the pouch on my b...
SUZANNE COLLINS Y de repente es cómo si no existiera nadie más en el mundo que estas dos personas que atraviesan e...
SUZANNE COLLINS Don't you see, Katniss, this will decide things. One way or the other. By the end of the day, they'l...
SUZANNE COLLINS Lucky thing were allies, right?
-Finnick Odair
SUZANNE COLLINS I can hear him weeping but I don't care. They probably won't even bother to question her, she's so f...
SUZANNE COLLINS I wish they were all dead and we were, too. It would be best."

Well, there's no good resp...
SUZANNE COLLINS Poor Finnick. Is this the first time in your life you haven't looked pretty?" I say.
"It must b...
SUZANNE COLLINS Did you love Annie right away, Finnick?" I ask. "No." A long time passes before he adds, "She crept ...
SUZANNE COLLINS I don't know what it is with Finnick and bread, but he seems obsessed with handling it.
SUZANNE COLLINS Do you find this...distracting?
SUZANNE COLLINS Plutarch rushes to reassure me. "Oh, no, Katniss. Not your wedding. Finnick and Annie's. All you nee...
SUZANNE COLLINS Want a sugar cube?" he asks in his old seductive voice.
SUZANNE COLLINS And if we burn, you burn with us.
SUZANNE COLLINS My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.
WILKIE COLLINS Destroying things is much easier than making them.
SUZANNE COLLINS Even if times got bad, he would never again deny himself the possibility that the future might be ha...
SUZANNE COLLINS If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it.
SUZANNE COLLINS And don't you let your guard down for a second because you think anything's inevitable.
SUZANNE COLLINS