Top 100 Call Quotes
#1. As soon as an actress is past 40, they call her a grande dame. As long as I'm here in good health, I'm stable.
Jeanne Moreau
#2. I was a complete unknown when I did 'Karate Kid.' I'd just done a pilot for a TV show called 'Call to Glory.' And I sat down with John Avildsen and brought still pictures from the show. I brought pictures! At that point, I would've been happy to be in a dog-food commercial.
Elisabeth Shue
#3. I know a profound pattern humans deny with words even while their actions affirm it. They say they seek security and quiet, conditions they call peace. Even as they speak, they create seeds of turmoil and violence.
Frank Herbert
#4. Erak. The one they call the Oberjarl," the Arridi answered him.
Impulsively, Axl took a pace forward, raising his ax threateningly.
You'll have to go through the rest of us to take him!" he shouted defiantly.
Well done, Axl," he said. "You've just told them I'm here.
John Flanagan
#5. The ecological situation is not a problem to be solved, but a wake-up call to a different way of being and relating.
Pat MacEnulty
#6. I was put in a position with a man that, whenever he would call me at work or at home, work-related, he would say jump and I'd say how high and I would jump.
Andrea Mackris
#7. You call yourself some kind of goddess and you know nothing, madam, nothing. What don't die can't live. What don't live can't change. What don't change can't learn. The smallest creature that dies in the grass knows more than you.
Terry Pratchett
#8. And he's alone there, with the unconscious pilot lying a little way off for company, and some other guy he's never even seen, only spoken to over the radio.
He wants to sleep so badly - dying they call it - and he can't. Something's bothering him to keep him awake. ("Jane Brown's Body")
Cornell Woolrich
#9. My advice is never let a publicist call you a 'visionary.' I've hung out with the visionaries at the famed Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. I've been a successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur. I wouldn't touch 'visionary' with a 10-foot pole.
Robert Metcalfe
#10. Don't live the same year 80 times and call it life.
Me
#11. I call white the most powerful non-color; it's clean, optimistic, powerful.
Jason Wu
#12. Fuck 'em. Call it whatever you want. Maybe it's just two people clinging to each other to stay alive. Maybe sometimes that's all love gets to be. And, maybe, if they hold onto each other long enough ... maybe something good finally happens.
Rick Remender
#13. My mother was the total influence. My father was what we call a nomadic person; he was a wanderer.
Danny Aiello
#14. [Alternate translation:] The Divine Spirit found a sublime outlet in that wonder of analysis, that portent of the ideal world, that amphibian between being and not-being, which we call the imaginary root of negative unity.
Gottfried Leibniz
#15. Call me Jack-the-Bear, for I am in a state of hibernation.
Ralph Ellison
#16. Dates used to be made days or even weeks in advance. Now dates tend to be made the day after. That is, you get a phone call from someone who says, "If anyone asks, I was out to dinner with you last night, okay?"
P. J. O'Rourke
#17. A new leader has to be able to change an organization that is dreamless, soulless and visionless ... someone's got to make a wake up call.
Warren G. Bennis
#18. He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.
Jack Kemp
#20. Some men call her cyanide
For she'll cause and take your pain.
To others she's the devil
Or the quest for true love's bane,
And, to those less lucky,
She's called their ball and chain.
Phar West Nagle
#21. Our constancy, same might call it our madness, was necessary to wear down the oppressive forces of the old democracy which, in Spain, was a hundred years behind the times.
Federica Montseny
#22. Admittedly, it's a little crazy. Grand, infinite God taking on the squalling form of a human baby boy. It's what some of the old-timers call a scandal, the scandal of the Gospel. But it is also the whole point.
Lauren F. Winner
#23. Did you really have to put ideas in Izzy's head? she now has some ... What did she call it? Oh yeah "Trifecta of Vaginal Bliss". What the hell does that shit mean?
Harper Sloan
#24. In certain Zen monasteries, it's a cardinal rule, if not the only serious enforced discipline, that when one monk calls out 'Hi!' to another monk, the latter must call back 'Hi!' without thinking.
J.D. Salinger
#25. Now I'm heading home for a nooner, which is what I call having pancakes for lunch.
LIZ
#26. It was mankind and not the Almighty that had ordered the universe; only a man could look at an accident and call it a creation with Himself at the centre.
Joseph O'Connor
#27. Hell's bells. I don't call him the Fist of God as a pet name, folks.
Jim Butcher
#28. What you call flaws are really just scars and wounds accumulated over a lifetime.
Deepak Chopra
#29. The summer brings new and unwanted orange freckles to my face. I hate my hair and my skin ... kids call me freckle-face strawberry. My hair is cherry. Who wants that?
Lisa Dekis
#30. If you're referring to yourself as a 'grown-up', then you're still totally a kid. 'Grown ups' call themselves adults
Chelsea Fine
#31. It's funny when people say you have sex appeal or call you the next Brad Pitt. I just laugh. I'm not that. I don't want to be that.
Kellan Lutz
#32. Every far-sighted capitalist today must call on his fellows: capitalists of all countries, unite !
Anonymous
#33. MTV didn't call. I guess I wasn't hip and groovy enough.
Dan Fogelberg
#34. I'm not in love with him. I would never call it that. It's more of a growing fascination with him. He's unlike anyone I've ever known, but he's maladjusted and broken - unpredictable and frightening.
Amy A. Bartol
#35. Hackers, makers, programmers, engineers, nerds, techies - what we'll call "geeks" for the rest of the book (deal with it) - we're a creative lot who don't like to be told what to do.
Jeff Potter
#36. When people call me either a girl crush or their best friend, like, the best friend they want, that's, to me, the best compliment anyone could ever give me.
Mindy Kaling
#37. The human mind is often, and I think it is for the most part, in a state neither of pain nor pleasure, which I call a state of indifference.
Edmund Burke
#39. I never call it an insurgency. I call it terrorism.
Hamid Karzai
#40. You have a cat and go on vacation, you know who to call. Though, I warn you, I do both dry and wet food. I'm not into doin' just wet or just dry. They need a treat, but they need to keep their teeth clean. It's important."
-Tex
Rock Chick
Kristen Ashley
#41. Y'know what they call the person who does all the work but gets none of the credit? An opportunity.
Brad Meltzer
#42. Things had gone badly at Hell House, although not quite as horribly as the '31 investigation. At least this time there were survivors, if you wanted to call being reduced to catatonia and raving lunacy 'surviving'.
Nancy A. Collins
#43. If you think that you have caught a cold, call in a good doctor. Call in three good doctors and play bridge.
Robert Benchley
#44. I don't want my 'part' taken! I haven't 'got' a part! I hate the stupid geometrical figures by which people try to understand the emotions of others, imposing hard straight lines - or 'sides' as they call them - onto tender curvaceous human beings who have none.
Frances Partridge
#45. To indicate how large a part of the Earth is covered by the oceans, we might call attention to the fact that a whole hemisphere, with its center near New Zealand, would have only one-tenth of its area as dry land! And the average depth of the seas is over two miles.
Paul J. H. Schoemaker
#46. Most people can't find love because they're picky, they overanalyze and they find things wrong in people. We call them flaw finders.
Patti Stanger
#47. If you're brave enough to love, and forgive, and call up the factofabulous memories ... there's no curse in the world that has any power over you.
Natalie Lloyd
#48. I don't watch 'American Idol,' but I wouldn't call it 'undignified.'
Buzz Aldrin
#49. Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
C. G. Jung
#50. I always call my cousin because we're so close. We're almost like sisters, and we're also close because our mom's are sisters.
Britney Spears
#51. Give up smoking. Don't get so fat. So much illness is self-induced - which I can't stand. And I'm not a good nursemaid. Don't call me if you're ill.
Anton Du Beke
#52. There's a mysterious alter ego in everyone. Some call it hallucination, some call it art.
Bhavik Sarkhedi
#53. Every day is a gift from God.
That is why we call today the present.
Norene Moskalski
#54. The tyranny imposed on the soul by anger, or fear, or lust, or pain, or envy, or desire, I generally call 'injustice.'
Plato
#55. If an artist is one who spends his life trying to define his being, I guess I would have to call myself an artist.
Roger Ballen
#56. There's a certain amount of empathy you need to have, and I've also never been one to call it in. I know some roles are easier for certain people, especially when there's the sequel and a third and a fourth one.
Kim Basinger
#57. Your ego is a scary beast. It should have its own name. We could call it something frightening like Darth Yummy.
Nichole Chase
#58. Even those who call themselves 'intimate' know very little about each other - hardly ever know just how a sorrow is felt, and hurt each other by their very attempts at sympathy or consolation. We can bear no hand on our bruises.
George Eliot
#59. That reasonably intelligent and well-meaning young people are willing to call white black is a matter of concern. It raises questions about our ways of education and about the values that guide our conduct.
Solomon Asch
#60. Sleep has no place it can call its own.
Bram Stoker
#61. Software: These programs give instruction to the CPU, which processes billions of tiny facts called bytes, and within a fraction of a second it sends you an error message that requires you to call the customer-support hot line and be placed on hold for approximately the life-span of a caribou.
Dave Barry
#63. Even now, most people call me Joy or Joe Lee or Joey. It's all fine with me. The only time I correct them is when they refer to me as Spike Lee's sister.
Joie Lee
#64. No, but it was a close call. Brought you something."
"Turtle pee?"
Cam laughed and shook his head as he reached into his backpack. "Sorry to let you down, but no." He pulled out papers stapled together. "It's a syllabus. I know. Thrilling shit right here.
J. Lynn
#65. A lot of people ask me why I don't expand and explore other musical areas, but I like the plain three- and four-chord rock-and-roll that I call the the semi-blues.
Joan Jett
#66. I have art. I have music. I have the history, this legacy behind me that I can look up to. This is what I believe in. If you want to call it God or spirituality, that's all up to you. Basically I believe in something that's bigger than myself, and that gives my life meaning.
John Zorn
#67. The romantics would call this a love story, the cynics would call it a tragedy. In my mind it's a little bit of both, and no matter how you choose to view it in the end, it does not change the fact that it involves a great deal of my life and the path I've chosen to follow.
Nicholas Sparks
#68. We are all creative, from the mother adding an extra pinch of garlic to her meal, to the entrepreneur launching a brand new product, to the business consultant who creates a more effective way for corporate departments to communicate. The call requires creativity.
Shannon Tanner
#69. I wouldn't call myself a 'literary critic,' just a book reviewer.
Neel Mukherjee
#70. What they don't tell you about the illusion
is that I am as much lion as I am lion tamer.
And I got good at inflicting pain the same way I got good
at soothing it.
This, we call unfortunate,
but inevitable.
Ashe Vernon
#71. Always the same. Now a spark of hope flashes up, then a sea of despair rages, and always pain; always pain, always despair, and always the same. When alone he had a dreadful and distressing desire to call someone, but he knew beforehand that with others present it would be still worse.
Leo Tolstoy
#72. The complaints of many Christians as to lack of joy and strength, as to failure and want of growth, are simply owing to this - the place God gave Holiness in His call they have not given it in their response. God and they have never yet come to an agreement on this.
Andrew Murray
#73. Newscasters cannot call attention to themselves by being too attractive or too unattractive.
Jessica Savitch
#74. I never know tomorrow what I might be doing. I just ask God to lead me and show me and direct me and help me and support me in it. So I just wait to hear the call.
Dolly Parton
#75. A good picture book should have events that are visually arresting - the pictures should call attention to what is happening in the story.
Chris Van Allsburg
#76. People ask what those women saw in me. Let's face it, I wasn't a bad-looking stud. But that's not it. It's the music; it's standing up there under the lights. A lot of women just flip; looks have nothing to do with it. You call Mick Jagger good-looking?
Artie Shaw
#77. The truth of life is that Brahman is no different from atman, the spiritual force within us, what you might call the soul.
Yann Martel
#78. I come from people who did not go to college. They didn't even finish high school. People who one might call ordinary Americans who are very hard-working.
Joyce Carol Oates
#79. There is a sky full of stars aplenty, and all you can babble about is a cold, little rock we call the moon. This is how it is with petty problems that exist too close to us.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#80. It will be in vain to call to the rocks in the day of judgment - but our Rock attends to our cries.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#82. I want to be a child doctor. A pediatry ... how do you call it, pediatrician? Do I like kids? No, not really.
Adriana Lima
#83. cheerfully dragged me into the package store. (That's what you call a liquor store in Connecticut,
Sarina Bowen
#84. See every distraction as a clarion call back to prayer.
Jared Brock
#85. I hate when people call me a socialite because you have to have money to be a socialite, which I don't have.
Sky Ferreira
#86. I call myself the Amusement Park. That's because I'm funny and scary at the same time.
Terry Crews
#87. Your women of honor, as you call em, are only chary of their reputations, not their persons; and 'Tis scandal that they would avoid, not men.
William Wycherley
#88. Worship the Trinity, which I call the only true devotion and saving doctrine.
Gregory Of Nazianzus
#89. Oh yeah. It would be terrible for you to have only one working fang. Your friends might want to call you Lefty
Kerrelyn Sparks
#90. Alone, I often fall down into nothingness. I must push my foot stealthily lest I should fall off the edge of the world into nothingness. I have to bang my head against some hard door to call myself back to the body.
Virginia Woolf
#91. I don't believe in God, though I'm not prepared to call myself an atheist either. You know the old phrase: 'There are no atheists in foxholes.' I've never been in a foxhole, and if I ever find myself in a foxhole, I'll let you know if I believe in God or not.
Ed Asner
#92. My fingers burn behind the keys of my typewriter, the lettering fading with every thoughtful strike. The many words I write I dare not stall; my mind perpetually alert for my magnum opus call.
A.K. Kuykendall
#93. Think of it.' said Robert Rosenbluth, a doctor whose acquaintance i made at the start of this book. 'no engineer could design something as multifunctional and fine tuned as an anus. to call someone an asshole is really bragging him up.
Mary Roach
#94. I'm currently shooting 'Ava's Possessions,' which is a really fun movie about a woman who gets possessed by a demon. I call it 'Memento' meets 'The Exorcist.'
Alysia Reiner
#95. I tell you, I'm really not what you'd call into your basic kink, even though we do live in Hollywood, which is a little bit like living in a box of granola.
McLean Stevenson
#96. The days draw out, the weather gets warmer, and it's what we call summer, with a bitter laugh when we've said it.
Stan Barstow
#97. There's kind of an unwritten rule, Don't call your captain out at a Ryder Cup, win, loss or draw, you just don't.
Graeme McDowell
#98. I like to call the difference between research and development. Some people use that interchangeably. They'll say R&D. They're two totally different things.
Burt Rutan
#99. Tears, she said scornfully to Sansa as the woman was led from the hall. The woman's weapon, my lady mother used to call them. The man's weapon is a sword. And that tells us all you need to know, doesn't it?
George R R Martin
#100. should I respect the work of the creator, of the gardener, or should I accept the survival instinct with which nature endowed this plant, which I now call a 'weed'?
Paulo Coelho
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