Call Quotes

Tis not seasonable to call a man traitor, that has an army at his heels.

They have what you call a black night where they have black people come in for just one night only to watch comedy, and you get all your local drug dealers, thugs, prostitutes, all of them come in, sit down, and listen to you tell jokes. They the hardest people to make laugh.

What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.

If a cat does something, we call it instinct; if we do the same thing, for the same reason, we call it intelligence.

And in Iraq we tried to implement the same policy that was so successful in Saudi Arabia, but Saddam Hussein didn't buy. When the economic hit men fail in this scenario, the next step is what we call the jackals.

I'm not a professional politician. I'm a professional problem solver, and I believe we should cut the salaries of senators and congressmen 10 percent until they balance the budget. I call that conservative common sense.

I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.

In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come.

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.

Government or politics in America today is big business. Everybody makes money involving themselves in one way or the other, whether it's pollsters, whether they are policy wonks, whether they are pundits, whether they are those who believe that they must call it as they see it and then to be fair about it.

Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real.

So I think it is common knowledge that Hitchcock had fantasies or whatever you want to call them about his leading ladies.

I don't think there's a date minimum or maximum. I don't get the whole 'All right, you've got to wait three days to call after the date.' If I got a number from a girl, I'd call that night. There's no science to it for me. You just do what it is that you feel like doing.

I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.

It's not a choice between war and peace. It's a choice between war and endless war. It's not appeasement. I think it's better even to call it American self-interest.

Call me crazy - I love elk meat!

Yes, the audience is so important to Negro music, especially the element of call and response.

We are a big country, with lots of advantages and history. We are proud to be French. We have to call on patriotism at this time... to ask for an effort in the battle against debt.

It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous.

Being a good mother does not call for the same qualities as being a good housewife; a dedication to keeping children clean and tidy may override an interest in their separate development as individuals.

I think kids should have a mentor and a role model, but that they shouldn't take one person's opinion to be what we call final assessment or judgment about how life is supposed to be.

My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'

I want to be back every year. If I don't go, I want it to be because someone else just was having a great season. I want it to at least be a close call.

There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.

Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

I've had those people very interested in my writing. Since I think of myself as a composer, I feel really good. I've had lots of guys call me up. I've gotten two or three commissions to write things. I've written lots of movie scores.

Sometimes people call me a success for all the reasons that make me think I'm a failure.

Russia's biggest problem is organized crime and its leaders are influenced by the Russian mafia. But it's not right to call it a Russian mafia, it's a Jewish mafia.

I know people watch our movies and they'll see a lot of images - they call it gross-out - that they don't like, and I understand that. It's an important movie and one that's extremely well done, but the amount of violent imagery was not for me.

'The New York Times' list is a bunch of crap. They ought to call it the editor's choice. It sure isn't based on sales.