Called Quotes

When you've been on a programme called 'An Idiot Abroad' job offers aren't exactly flying in.

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

I'd sing with Roberta Flack in a taxi if you called up and said she'd be in it.

I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts.

If Woody Allen called me, I'd be there straight away. Who wouldn't? Truly.

Have you heard of this new thing called the internet? It's giving people new expectations. It's allowing them to become their own expert. Knowledge lies anxious at their fingertips. Gloss over the truth in your advertising and you'll quickly be dismissed as a poser.

I am called a gold digger all the time. I don't care. There is nothing you can do about what other people say.

There's always been a lot of pressure and tension on the line. If 'Pi' didn't work out, I have no idea what my career would be. I don't think I would have gotten another shot at it. If 'Requiem for a Dream' didn't work out, they would have called me a 'one-hit wonder with a sophomore slump'.

We got on American Bandstand, where kids would dance to a record and then rate it. We called ourselves Tom and Jerry. I was Jerry.

In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs are called saints.

Actually, it was first a movie called Gale Force, which was a hurricane movie. That script never came together, and then the same deal was replaced with Cliffhanger.

In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts - in a poor black neighborhood, in the poor rural community of Eufaula, Oklahoma - would someday be called Congressman.

General Pickett, finding the battle broken while the enemy was still reinforcing, called the troops off.

The new spirituality will bring about what I'm calling the 'end of better.' And that is in fact what is called for in the next of the series of books that I've been writing.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

In fact, the converse is true: At a time when the United States has been called on for a level of moral leadership, vision and inspiration not seen since World War II, we cannot afford to dissemble about crimes against humanity.

Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.

But I'd play on everything from pop records to a lot of the glam stuff to rock stuff to classical stuff. I used to get called to do all those things, it was great.

You know, not even your British Queen is called just Elizabeth - she's Elizabeth the Second. There's only one Imelda.

I did a play I think my first six months on the show, called Bullpen. Then I got involved with Theater Forty and did this play called Plastic which is about two male models coming to a casting call.

I'm called away by particular business - but I leave my character behind me.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

UNICEF has repeatedly called on governments to ensure basic services for children and this includes providing food where the need exists.

I was very awkward as a kid. I was a square trying to fit into a circle and it never worked for me. The harder I tried, the harder I fell. For some reason I was a real target and I got beat up and called names.

My family has always called me 'Lay Lay,' and my dad used to always call me 'Dynamite Termite' because I was really short and small and I hated to be still. I would never stop.

I taped my first series for PBS in 1982 at WJCT-TV in Jacksonville, Florida. The show, called 'Everyday Cooking with Jacques Pepin,' was about saving time and money in the kitchen - and it was a celebration of simple and unpretentious food.

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

I have even written a book about Wine called The Grapes of Ralph.

There ought to be a thoughtful welfare-reform debate that doesn't turn into something that could be called scapegoating.

All the guys called the Olympic Village a high-class Boy Scout camp.