E. O. Wilson Call Quotations

It's a worldwide, televised event. The phone rings more after you play on 'Monday Night Football.' People call up and let you know how you looked on TV. If you had a good game, they say, 'You were awesome!' And if you have a bad game, they say: 'Al, you messed up. What were you thinking?

Last year this time we were on the other side, just hoping and praying that somehow they would stick us in there. It makes the day a lot more fun, knowing they will be calling our name sometime.

I will call you personally and answer a question you may have, or just say hello or whatever,

I have a friend who lives in Minnesota, ... Through the videophone, I can see my friend as well as her baby.... Since I can verbalize, I call (the baby,) who is hearing, and she will look up and walk toward the (videophone) - a wonderful experience, really.

Remember the candy stripers? Well, we don't call them that anymore. They're junior volunteers.

The beginning of wisdom, as the Chinese say, is calling things by their right names.

From what I heard, they said is they want them to call that. Even though the guy was 25, 30 yards behind it, he said they want us to make this call. Which makes absolutely no sense to me, take away a great play like that because a guy is celebrating.

We are so used to weddings that we're ready for everything. The show shouldn't be any different - except for all the extra phone calls we're getting.

No one is more interesting to anybody than is that mysterious character we all call me, which is why self-liberation, self-actualization, self-transcendence, etc., are the most exciting games in town.

If we had lost tonight, it's basically like Pin the Tail on the Donkey, when there's one kid left and you know he's going to hit the spot. You don't want to get to that point. It's always nice to beat a great ballclub.

He's a big kid; he covers a lot of ground. You have really got to work hard and you've got to score on rebounds and their defense did a good job of clearing the net. It's basically a dogfight every shot and rebound in there, and they played it well.

We certainly have indications, increasingly so, that units either can't carry out a mission which is assigned to them because of fuel shortages, or are reluctant to plan a mission which can't be carried out because of fuel shortages or have to call a mission short because of fuel shortages,

We call that a jail break. The whole pack of turtles head for the water at once.

I basically lost everything. By the time we knew we had to get out, there was no time. I brought my laptop, my cell phone, a change of clothes and a pair of shoes and some of my boots.

Here's a real need to maintain that physically active lifestyle and maybe start decreasing a little bit of what you eat. Diet is always going to be most effective when combined with physical activity.

It apparently led to him putting the victim up into an apartment. He would call every two hours and if the victim did not answer the phone, he would then beat her. An average of twice a week, he would go to the apartment and have forced intercourse at times with the victim.

The most thoroughly and relentlessly Damned, banned, excluded, condemned, forbidden, ostracized, ignore, suppressed, repressed, robbed, brutalized and defamed of all Damned Things is the individual human being. The social engineers, statistician, psychologist, sociologists, market researchers, landlords, bureaucrats, captains of industry, bankers, governors, commissars, kings and presidents are perpetually forcing this Damned Thing into carefully prepared blueprints and perpetually irritated that the Damned Thing will not fit into the slot assigned it. The theologians call it a sinner and try to reform it. The governor calls it a criminal and tries to punish it. the psychologist calls it a neurotic and tries to cure it. Still, the Damned Thing will not fit into their slots.

The question becomes, well, where do you get the product to fill the pipeline, ... The system was basically running full out before the storm to supply the market and now we've lost nearly 10 percent of the (U.S.) refining capacity.

Personally, I've always thought dying on vacation was the better way to go . . . I do have certain requests about my passing, though. I hope that if I die in a plane crash, it's coming FROM a vacation instead of heading TO. I know, it's a small consolation, but I'd have a tan and would look rested at my calling hours.

Don't take for granted on that first look that there's not a bike there because there can be and basically we're telling them to look twice because no one wants to get hit. No one wants to get killed.