Call Quotes

O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.

The best plan now is to have as many bosses as possible. I call it boss diversity. If you work for a company and you have one boss and that boss doesn't like you or wants to get rid of you, you're in trouble. But if you work for yourself, you have lots of bosses, who are your customers, and if a few of them decide they don't like you, that's okay.

Some dog I got too. We call him Egypt. Because in every room he leaves a pyramid.

With the success of a show, you get an opportunity to call attention to things that you believe in.

Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.

What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.

To insult someone we call him "bestial." For deliberate cruelty and nature, "human" might be the greater insult.

I'm always glad to be offered roles, but wouldn't take any role as this could do you more harm than good, but I've been at what they call 'on the top' as far as being known for twenty years.

Those who devote their lives to serving our country, children, and neighborhoods are giving back. They have answered the call to serve.

I beg. I call. I badger. I cajole. Part of the secret is everyone has fun and that's really motivating.

An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'

Originally, I came from Texas, and we lived on - I guess you'd call it welfare, what we called relief.

My mother, for the last 20 years anyway, would not call herself a Marxist but a human rights activist.

It's funny how you call me a celebrity. Oh man.

I work on quiet call nights in the hospital, on airplanes and on my sailboat when I have a bit of time - I cram it into wherever it will fit.

We all have, in my family, what we call the 'Vorderman bottom' - a sticky out, bigger-than-normal, signature, of the rear variety. It's been a family joke all our lives - even my lovely brother has one. I know the lines to all the good singalong big bum songs.

Arnold has had his spokesman call me a crackpot. That was a mistake.

Rounder Records decided to call the album Move It On Over, much to my chagrin but they knew what they were doing. It took off and to this day I can't figure out why.

Mickey Mouse... is always there-he's part of my life. That really is something not everyone can call their claim to fame.

You call yourself what you want to call yourself.

For more than two centuries since winning our own freedom, we the people of the United States have repeatedly answered the call to lead the quest for freedom around the globe.

A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.

I am and always will be an HRH. But out of personal choice I like to be called William because that is my name and I want people to call me William - for now.

I have gone on the air and announced my telephone number at the Washington Post. I go into the night, talking to people, looking for things. The great dreaded thing every reporter lives with is what you don't know. The source you didn't go to. The phone call you didn't return.

I call on people to be 'obsessed citizens,' forever questioning and asking for accountability. That's the only chance we have today of a healthy and happy life.

I have always wanted what I have now come to call the voice of personal narrative. That has always been the appealing voice in poetry. It started for me lyrically in Shakespeare's sonnets.

It is necessary to posit something which is necessary of itself, and has no cause of its necessity outside of itself but is the cause of necessity in other things. And all people call this thing God.

It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!

Three children have become adults since a phone call with Jo Rowling, containing one small clue, persuaded me that there was more to Snape than an unchanging costume, and that even though only three of the books were out at that time, she held the entire massive but delicate narrative in the surest of hands.