Top 100 Called Quotes
#1. The weak, the sinful, the uncertain - they are most often the ones called.
Kelly Irvin
#2. I was called a bookish child. Mother sent me to a ballet teacher in Cincinnati when I was nine years old. I guess I was an awkward child and the family wanted me to be graceful. When I found out I liked to dance and people seemed to like to watch me, I was determined to go places.
Vera-Ellen
#3. Running is something you just do. You don't need a goal. You don't need a race. You don't need the hype of a so-called fitness craze. All you need is a cheap pair of shoes and some time; the rest will follow.
Ted Corbitt
#4. ... the designation of wife in India, of the Hindu wife, is higher and grander than that of Empress. She is called Devi
Virchand Gandhi
#5. Cordelia faced one more climb onto that torture-device for humans and horses called a saddle.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#6. I'd rather be called King than other things I've been called.
Richard Petty
#7. I was producing demos for a band that was called Physical Ed. Out of production of demos I went and did a few jam sessions with then in Northern California clubs, but I never actually toured with them.
Ronnie Montrose
#8. I kind of did this thing in high school, a spoof of 'Sweeney Todd' called 'Shirley Todd,' and I had a great time doing that.
Chris Colfer
#9. The weapons room looked exactly the way something called "the weapons room" sounded like it would look.
Cassandra Clare
#10. She shrugged. "He sat back, called it good, and rested."
I waited.
She waited.
I raised my brows. "And?"
Her mouth curved into a smile. "You think I'm pretty, don't you.
Tosca Lee
#11. Everything's possible when you're seven years old." She sighed. "But then you hit an age where you decide it's cooler not to believe in anything at all. [ ... ] It's called being grown-up.
Allan Frewin Jones
#12. Marriage. That's what he called it, though men like Paul do not marry women. They own them. They control them. They are voracious gluttons who devour every part of a woman, then clean their teeth with the bones.
Karin Slaughter
#13. Oh, well. There's a dance in the States, called the Shag. I gather I shouldn't ask you to do it with me here, though." "Not unless you mean it,
Diana Gabaldon
#14. For Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm, 267,300 reserve component service men and women were called to service.
Ron Wyden
#15. Rick Perry said Donald Trump is unfit to be president and called for him to immediately withdraw from the race. Then he said, 'And that's coming from ME!'
Jimmy Fallon
#16. I'm not what they expect. About once a year I get discovered, get called a diamond in the rough.
Michael Dorris
#17. I called back, but not loud enough, probably. I don't like making noise in public
Markus Zusak
#18. San always called it "figiator" - flanked by two large,
Tom Yarborough
#19. We are lucky because we still have a magnificent temple called nature where we can find peace of mind in it!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#20. Of course it's kitsch, and of course our love for every cult figure gets called kitsch when we want to separate the suffering it requires to create a symbol that lives in the world from the ravages of one's own life.
W. Scott Poole
#21. Claudia! That's not for snacking, you bitch. Livvie spanked the other girl on the ass and both of them giggled.
Girls are so strange. If another man called me a bitch and spanked me, it would not end in giggles.
C.J. Roberts
#22. The so-called miracle of birth is nature getting her own way.
Camille Paglia
#23. Sometimes God brings relationships to an end as a way to move us along to where he has called us to go.
Melanie Shankle
#24. The Jesus Factor it's called, instant resurrection and a second cumming.
Gillibran Brown
#25. I grew up in a town called Hopedale, Massachusetts. I was born there in 1964, and the only thing I hate outside of myself is everything else.
Dana Gould
#26. The best books are not read even by those who are called good readers. What does our Concord culture amount to? There is in this town, with a very few exceptions, no taste for the best or for very good books even in English literature, whose words all can read and spell.
Henry David Thoreau
#27. If I had a reality show, it would probably be called 'Keeping Fit with Jesse Tyler Ferguson' because then I'd be forced to hit the gym every day.
Jesse Tyler Ferguson
#28. I wrote and illustrated a science experiment book called 'The Mad Professor'.
Mark Frauenfelder
#29. I had this notion of what I called a democratic way of looking around, that nothing was more important or less important.
William Eggleston
#30. As a writer I have persisted in my uncertainty, alternating between novels which could charitably be considered literature and world reporting which by another stretch of objective standards might be called history.
James A. Michener
#31. Rage properly channeled can definitely give birth to good even great theater. Disgust, a more passive and distancing emotion, is far less likely to. Would you rush to a play called Look Back in Queasiness?
Ben Brantley
#32. The sickness you bear is called pervertedness!
It won't heal for a lifetime! - Hakari
Maki Minami
#34. I don't believe that efforts to prohibit only so-called reproductive cloning can be successful.
Leon Kass
#35. The election, and even the re-election, of a black man as president, in a country that is 87 percent non-black - a first in human history - has had no impact on what are called 'racial tensions.'
Dennis Prager
#36. If you are an open-minded and tolerant Muslim, you have enough knowledge to question the moves of a Christian governor or even the Ku Klux Klan. They called themselves a Christian organization, but how is that possible since Jesus didn't do that?
Lupe Fiasco
#37. I was a surf bum wannabe. I left home at age 17 and moved to Southern California to try to take up surfing as a vocation, but this was in 1964, and there was this nasty little thing called the Vietnam War. As a result, I got drafted.
Craig Venter
#38. REPLICA, n. A reproduction of a work of art, by the artist that made the original. It is so called to distinguish it from a "copy," which is made by another artist. When the two are mae with equal skill the replica is the more valuable, for it is suppose
Ambrose Bierce
#39. I think they called me the closest thing to a God of the Internet.
Jon Postel
#40. It was called the Middle Ages, the Dark Ages. If not for the monks, everything the world had ever learned would have been lost. Well, we live in a similar time, when we're losing the vast majority of what we do and see and learn. But it doesn't have to be that way.
Dave Eggers
#41. Someone knocked on the door. "Come in!" Barabas called. The door swung open and Derek stuck his head in. "Hey, do you have any duct tape?" He saw me, stepped back, and closed the door without a word. Well. "Coward," Barabas said, loud enough for Derek to hear.
Ilona Andrews
#42. They had dreams but they called them dreams because they were unrelated to reality, they were a distant unknown, an impossibility, they would never come true.
James Frey
#43. Mae, he made me go out for a run," Jamie called out. "Tell him I don't run!"
"Jamie and I are lilies of the field. We toil not, neither do we jog," Mae informed Nick.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#44. Holy Week is a privileged time when we are called to draw near to Jesus: friendship with him is shown in times of difficulty.
Pope Francis
#45. 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
#46. I think in my world of religion, you're called to preach or you don't preach. Called by God to preach. I never been ordained by God to preach the gospel. I have a calling, it's called to perform and sing.
Johnny Cash
#47. I have been called many things in my life, but if there has been but one constant, one barb, one arrow flung my way time after time, it is the accusation that I am, in essence, nothing more than an escapist. Apparently this is bad, suspect, possibly even un-American.
J. Maarten Troost
#48. Philip is the only person in the Bible who was called an evangelist, and he was a deacon!
Billy Graham
#49. Disneyland is often called a magic kingdom because it combines fantasy and history, adventure and learning, together with every variety of recreation and fun designed to appeal to everyone.
Walt Disney
#50. The artist must reckon with his own character flaws, which do not disappear just because he has been called to be an artist.
Eric Maisel
#51. And worse, there was the music. He didn't know what it was, but it seemed to come from far, far off. It called to him, but not in a pleasant way - it had an urgency that sped his heart and made his blood burn.
David Gaider
#52. We are all called to promote God's Kingdom on earth
Sunday Adelaja
#53. I think you have to be careful with spices. Kids' palates can be very delicate, and they might not like things overspiced. In my cookbooks for kids, I do a milder version of my signature spice blend, Emeril's Essence, called Baby Bam, which has no cayenne pepper.
Emeril Lagasse
#54. If you're depressed and called Morgan spend the first half of the day in Germany for some positive affirmation.
Milton Jones
#55. I worry about the kids who have too much. As a parent living in a so-called good neighborhood with children who went to private high school, I found myself spending much time in parent groups worrying about alcohol, unsupervised parties, and parents not being parents.
Marian Wright Edelman
#56. I'm creating a self help show called Self Talk. I'll insult myself for an hour then open phone lines to a fitness coach & my mother-in-law.
Ryan Lilly
#57. The coral that grows at the edge of the reef is always the strongest and most colourful because it faces the greatest battering. It's the same if you're called Honeysuckle. I'd have had a totally different life if I'd been called Mary.
Honeysuckle Weeks
#58. I'm coming out with my line of shoes and my very first shoe is called 'The Nethia.' How we came up with the name is that my legal name is Linnethia and we shortened it.
NeNe Leakes
#59. In so-called communist Romania, chess was held in high esteem, even if our champions were weaker than the Soviets. This game, this "sport of the mind," was at the time a better way to establish your reputation than literature.
Dumitru Tepeneag
#60. 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
#61. There was a damn silly bird called a Phoenix back before Christ: every few hundred years he built a pyre and burned himself up. He must have been first cousin to Man.
Ray Bradbury
#62. There was a great magazine in the '80s called 'Cinemagic' for home moviemakers who liked to do monster and special effects movies. It was like a magazine written just for me.
Peter Jackson
#63. Fortunately, among werewolf women, the word "bitch" is not offensive. I was having a lot of fun with that.
"Hey there, bitches!" I called as I came through the door. "What are my favorite bitches up to today?
Molly Harper
#64. It's exciting to watch young children read poetry for the first time. You can sense the wheels turning and you just know their brain is doing this wonderful thing called learning. It's magical!
Elaine Grey
#65. I cannot possibly conceive of my planet Earth as the centre of a three-tiered universe. I know rather that the sun, around which my planet Earth revolves, is a middle sized star in a galaxy called the Milky Way that has over a hundred billion other suns or stars within it.
John Shelby Spong
#66. Finally she stopped resisting and called a truce. Young Alice was allowed to stay as long as she didn't eat too much chocolate.
Liane Moriarty
#67. I work out every day. Mostly it's free weights and cardio. I don't do that stuff where they throw logs at you, what's it called, cross-fit. None of that. Mainly it's just me in the gym, lifting weights.
Justin Bieber
#68. George Soros is one of the few characters from the world of finance who deserves to be called larger-than-life.
Gary Weiss
#69. I just did a play in New York which has been my best experience that I've had for maybe ever. It was Paul Weitz's play called Privilege and I was in New York for three months.
Bob Saget
#70. You sure? No one will know we're down there.' 'Makes no difference. The Environment office was closed when we left, and I never called ahead to the Porjus branch. It'll be fine though.
Adam Nevill
#71. There is a certain way of searching for the truth in mathematics that Plato is said first to have discovered. Theon called this analysis.
Francois Viete
#72. Do not worry too much about your lawn. You will soon find if you haven't already that almost every adult American devotes tremendous time and money to the maintenance of an invasive plant species called turf grass that we can't eat. I encourage you to choose better obsessions.
John Green
#73. Light has called forth one organ to become its like, and thus the eye is formed by the light and for the light so that the inner light may emerge to meet the outer light.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#74. Since 1775, when the first Continental Congress called for a national day of prayer, there have been such events called for by almost every President. I saw the figures - 34 out of 44 Presidents have called for a national day of prayer. Some of those who didn't have died in office.
James Dobson
#75. That which is alike will be called same. That which is not same is different.
Leonard Bloomfield
#76. For decades, parents were told by so-called parenting 'experts' that offspring would be best raised on the belief each is special and entitled to all life has to offer.
Bob Barr
#77. Anyone who is in Christ is strategically positioned to win the most coveted award in this business called life. He doesn't want you playing itty-bitty roles. He wants bright lights in your dressing room, and the spotlight trained on you as you take the center stage.
Yay Padua-Olmedo
#78. My second thought was to fire a gunshot, but the last time I did that his security robots jumped me. It only takes one cavity search by a robot to convince you that's an experience you don't want to have twice. This called for a more subtle approach.
John Zakour
#79. Scott let Maggie out the rear, clipped her lead, and hurried to catch up as Sims and another Fugitive dick brought out Estelle Rolley. Rolley looked like a walking skeleton. Street officers called this "the meth diet." Cowly
Robert Crais
#80. Liszt's so-called piano music is nothing but Chopin and brandy.
James Huneker
#81. So many people are called but few serve as actors, you know what I mean?
Faye Dunaway
#82. When the thing that emerged from the collision of sex and freedom, called love, collided with the thing that emerged from the collision of time and memory, called history, the dreams began to come.
Steve Erickson
#83. I have done no passably decent job in this world which did not at first seem to me useless - absurdly useless, useless to the point of nausea. My secret demon is called:;: What's the use?
Georges Bernanos
#84. When Talking Heads started, we called ourselves Thinking Man's Dance Music.
Tina Weymouth
#85. This so called 'Home of the Brave'
why isn't anybody Backing us up!
When they c these crooked ass Redneck cops
constantly Jacking us up
Tupac Shakur
#86. All these sorts of book feature in The Year of Reading Dangerously, which could yet be called Fifty Shades of Great.
Andy Miller
#87. When we first started Glitch, there were four co-founders of the company. We built Flickr and worked together at Yahoo and then started Tiny Speck. We were split in Vancouver, New York, and San Francisco. So we used an old chat technology called IRC. Almost nothing went through email.
Stewart Butterfield
#88. The difference between going where you are needed and going where you are called is purely based upon diligent prayer and the leading of the Holy Spirit.
M.J. Stoddard
#89. I take all the best parts of YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook, and combine them into a whole new service called ... YouTwit-face.
Mark Frost
#90. My first website went up in 1995. On it I ran a feature called Ask Nicola. Readers would email me questions, I'd answer whichever took my fancy.
Nicola Griffith
#91. The L.A Trilogy is a series of three novels starring Ray, a robot detective, and his boss, a computer called Googol. Set in an alternative version of 1960s Los Angeles, each book will be more or less standalone but together will form an overarching story arc with 'Brisk Money' as the origin story.
Adam Christopher
#92. Some say that he has no understanding of clouds, and that his ear wax tastes like Turkish Delight. All we know is he's called the Stig.
Jeremy Clarkson
#93. When I was in college, my graduation thesis was called 'Female Directors.' I interviewed all of the important female directors from Mexico. There were four. That was it.
Patricia Riggen
#94. The great thing about living today is that there is this thing called the Interweb, and you can just look up anything.
Padma Lakshmi
#95. John Rawls (1971) called the publicity principle. In its simplest form, the publicity principle bans government from selecting a policy that it would not be able or willing to defend publicly to its own citizens.
Richard H. Thaler
#96. Body Electric ... It is the first song from my new short film called # Tropico that is coming out in the end of the month.
Lana Del Rey
#97. Think not that thou canst fail of entering into rest. If He hath called thee, nothing can divide thee from His love. Distress cannot sever the bond; the fire of persecution cannot burn the link; the hammer of hell cannot break the chain.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#98. I like collaboration, I like to incorporate other people's ideas [and] that's what happens when you do a big movie. Unless you're called Stanley Kubrick and you do an independent movie for like $200 million.
Michel Gondry
#99. I'm the first kid to write of hearts, lies, and friends, and I'm sorry my conscience called in sick again. I've got arrogance down to a science.
Pete Wentz
#100. Success is not what I've done compared with what others have done. Success is what I've done compared with what God has called me to do.
Lecrae Moore
