Top 100 Don't Call Quotes
#1. I have a weird sense that people ten years younger than me don't own a radio, or maybe they own a radio, but they don't call it a radio.
Jad Abumrad
#2. You don't call them 'strippers.' They're dancers. 'Strippers' sounds cheesy and amateurish. These women are professionals." The man sipped his beer and glanced at Zoe. "And, you don't call them booger bars or strip joints, for the same reason.
Jackson Burnett
#3. Son, my name isn't Knight to you, it's Coach Knight or it's Mr. Knight. I don't call people by their last name and neither should you.
Bobby Knight
#4. He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You don't call that leading an idle life, do you?
Oscar Wilde
#5. Treasure is the kind of thing you dig up ... or bury! And when people say, 'Oh, he's an icon,' well, an icon is a very old painting hanging in a Russian church! If you want to say something, say something nice about me. Don't call me a national treasure.
Terry Wogan
#6. Generally places that are comfortable with excellence don't call themselves centers of excellence. Has anyone heard of a Princeton University Center of Excellence? Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center of Excellence?
Otis Webb Brawley
#7. I keep 3 hos but don't call me Santa And I'm and I'm flyer than reindeers in winter
Nicki Minaj
#8. You're a pig," I whispered back. "You know that, right?"
"So far bein' a pig works for me, babe," he said. "Gotta go now. Check out the college. Hit the clinic and get some pills. Don't call your brother. Cook something fuckin' great for dinner and don't wear any panties. That's all I ask.
Joanna Wylde
#9. Are you with us?" Prince Jake asked. I said. "Don't call me 'Prince.'" I said again.
Katherine Applegate
#10. Don't call the world dirty because you forgot to clean your glasses.
Aaron Hill
#11. Here's the thing. We do a movie with a predominantly black cast, and it's put in a category of being a black film. When other movies are done with a predominantly white cast, we don't call them a white film. I'm trying to remove the stigma off things they call black films.
Kevin Hart
#12. Call me bored, but don't call me boring.
Larry Wall
#13. You aren't a vampire." Silver's voice mirrored his shock. She repeated the phrase with a huge smile on her face. "You aren't a vampire!"
"They don't call me Jackpot for nothing," he joked.
Kasi Blake
#14. I've always considered myself a physical person. I don't call myself a farm girl, but I did spend a lot of years shoveling manure and throwing hay, because I worked to pay most of my riding expenses.
Eleanor Mondale
#15. Please don't call me arrogant, but I'm European champion and I think I'm a special one.
Jose Mourinho
#16. I don't call magazines and let them know about things so they can write stories.
Lauren Conrad
#17. Well, I don't call you an atheist then. I think if you believe in the awe and the wonder and the mystery, then that is what God is. That is what God is, not the bearded guy in the sky.
Oprah Winfrey
#18. Don't say you're a writer if you're not writing. Even if you're writing, don't call yourself a writer. Say instead, 'I write.' It's the verb that's important, not the noun.
Patti Digh
#19. I don't call myself a very good Christian, but I think I know one when I see one, and I also think I know when I don't.
Madison Smartt Bell
#20. Anyone can be sentimental about the nativity; any fool can feel like a Christian at Christmas. But Easter is the main event; if you don't believe in the resurrection, you're not a believer."
"If you don't believe in Easter," Owen Meany said. "Don't kid yourself - Don't call yourself a Christian.
John Irving
#21. Well, in the first place, military service, they don't call it service for nothing. You are actually serving your country. And it is a worthy and valid vocation.
Rick Warren
#23. Of course you can fall in love. You just have to let yourself. They don't call it falling for nothing.
-Kate
Kristin Hannah
#24. Disguise the pain. Don't call attention. Don't be noticed.
Jennifer Niven
#25. You don't call retarded people retards. It's bad taste. You call your friends retards when they are acting retarded.
Michael Scott
#27. Hello, Jean-Claude," I said. "Greetings, ma petite," he said. His voice was like fur, rich, soft, vaguely obscene, as if just talking to him was something dirty. Maybe it was. "Don't call me ma petite," I said. He smiled slightly, not a hint of fang. "As you like.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#28. Don't call me an icon. I'm just a mother trying to help.
Princess Diana
#29. Vocal prayer ... must be accompanied by reflection. A prayer in which a person is not aware of Whom he is speaking to, what he is asking, who it is who is asking and of Whom, I don't call prayer-however much the lips may move.
Teresa Of Avila
#30. Don't call us people with disabilities ... we have DIFFabilities!
Edward Barbanell
#31. You call the police if your car gets stolen. You don't call them for anything that matters.
Tiffany Reisz
#32. Planned Parenthood's entire existence is basically based on keeping people in the dark through euphemism. You don't call it genocide, you call it reproductive health. So that's why Planned Parenthood has - nobody really thought.
Greg Gutfeld
#33. Let that man be a Bosnian, Herzegovinian. Outside they don't call you by another name, except simply a Bosnian. Whether that be a Muslim (Bosniak), Serb or Croat. Everyone can be what they feel that they are, and no one has a right to force a nationality upon them.
Josip Broz Tito
#34. Taught me a lesson I should have known all along. What you do to children matters. And they might never forget. She's got a big-time job in California but she don't call or visit anymore. She sends me money and stuff every now and then, but I ain't seen her in I don't know how long.
Toni Morrison
#35. Don't call me that," I muttered, banging my forehead into my locker. "And the tutoring went fabulous. Please kill me now." -Meghan Chase
Julie Kagawa
#36. I woke up this morning exhausted from hiding the me of me. So I stand here confiding there's more to Devon than jump shot and rim. I'm more than tall and lengthy of limb. I dare you to peep behind these eyes, discover the poet in tough-guy disguise. Don't call me Jump Shot. My name is surprise.
Nikki Grimes
#37. I dunno why you hate us so much. I dunno why you hate me so much. I dunno why you're calling Guillory a traitor when he's the furthest thing from it. But don't call what you're doing justice. Don't talk about punishment and crimes. Whatever your agenda is, it passed 'justice' by long ago.
Addison Lane
#38. It's a totally ridiculous, completely unsexy word. If you use it during sex, trying to be politically correct
"Darling, could you stroke my vagina?"
you kill the act right there. I'm worried about vaginas, what we call them and don't call them.
Eve Ensler
#39. Darling, in this family we don't call anyone a novelist who has not written more books than Jane Austen.
Pansy Schneider-Horst
#41. Michelle Obama - they don't call her Mooch-elle for nothing.
Howie Carr
#42. Last night, I killed a man. If I had to, I'd do it all over again. Afterwards I slept like a baby. There's a surprising amount of physical exertion in murder - they don't call it a dead weight for nothing.
A.E. Rawson
#43. Our milk chocolate is very chocolaty. In fact, we don't call it milk chocolate - we call it milky chocolate.
Alain Ducasse
#44. Don't you give me that postmodern bullshit. There is truth, There is a truth. And what you want, or you feel, or you need, isn't going to change the truth. Any more than it's going to topple a skyscraper. There's truth, and there's belief. Don't call a mule a stallion.
Carol Plum-Ucci
#45. Tiny, the next time that you try to set me up with a girl with a secret boyfriend can you at least INFORM me that she has a secret boyfriend? Also, if you don't call me back within five minutes, I'm going to assume you found a way back to Evanston. Furthermore, you are an asshat. That is all.
John Green
#46. Don't call the doctor, don't call ya mamma, don't call the preacher; no, I don't need it.
Diana Ross
#47. Don't Call Us Wahhabis!" The term Wahhabi is actually offensive to Wahhabis themselves, as it suggests that they venerate Wahhab, the prophet, rather than God. Wahhabis refer to their own religious affiliation as Muwahiddin ("Unitarianism").
Edward Trimnell
#48. Don't call it uncertainty-call it wonder.
Rajneesh
#49. We don't call it sin today, we call it self-expression.
Max Stirner
#50. Don't call me darling. I'm a driving instructor!
Hilary McKay
#51. Don't call me a dinosaur. It isn't fair to the dinosaurs. What did a dinosaur ever do to you?
Jim Butcher
#53. Don't' call it a failure, call it an education. Some of us are very educated.
Rick Warren
#54. When people talk about people who are optimistic about gold, they call them 'gold bugs.' A bug is an insect. I don't call equity bugs 'cockroaches.' Do you understand? There is already a negative connotation with the expression of 'gold bug.'
Marc Faber
#56. If you don't want to call it a European army, don't call it a European army. You can call it 'Margaret', you can call it 'Mary-Anne', you can find any name, but it is a joint effort for peace-keeping missions - the first time you have a joint, not bilateral, effort at European level.
Romano Prodi
#57. Don't call me son unless you're going to include me in your will. (When Adolph Rupp called him, "Son.")
Al McGuire
#58. When you're the best fighter in the world today, they don't call you a great fighter. They call you Chael Sonnen.
Chael Sonnen
#59. I talk shit about everybody and then sulk when they don't call me, my friends fall away like I've dropped them out of an airplane, my ex-boyfriend thinks I'm Hitler when he sees me.
Daniel Handler
#60. I don't call cut between the takes - it's my way to help the actor keep focused. As soon as you say 'cut' you have 10 people jumping on them and everybody's trying to do a great job, and they do, but sometimes they forget that the more important thing is the performance, creating the performance.
Michel Gondry
#61. Ok. So the yard is here."
"It's a football field. Don't call it a yard."
"Grass where people sit and hang out is a yard."
"We stole things here, but that doesn't make it a bank.
Daniel Handler
#62. Moving into an unoccupied village when there's no opposition, I don't call that a military victory.
Norman Schwarzkopf
#63. Amma gave me some of her best stinkeye. How does a bird know to fly south? How does a catfish know how to swim? I don't know how many times I have to tell you, Ethan Wate. They don't call me a Seer for nothin'.
Kami Garcia
#64. You can't drive them around in the getaway van.' 'How about we don't call it the getaway van? People might get suspicious.' 'So what should we call it?' 'How about the van?' 'It doesn't change what it is and that it's a shitty thing to do. Someone might see them in it.
Cath Crowley
#65. Don't call a girl a flirt, she's just trying to be nice. Don't call a girl obsessed when she's just in love.
Zayn Malik
#66. If we're being honest, we don't call ourselves royalty. If we're being honest, we call ourselves timid, confused, and insecure. All our self-loathing and self-promoting is a thin veil covering over our frightening conviction that we are nobodies.
Tony Reinke
#67. Go then." I shrugged. "And if you lock yourself out of your car don't call me. I won't be answering my cell phone.
Penny Reid
#68. Are you telling me that sweet little woman who was in my office this afternoon writes porn?" Sean winced. "Dear god, don't call it porn." Grace
Lexi Blake
#69. Don't call it a comeback, I've been here for years.
LL Cool J
#70. Hell's bells. I don't call him the Fist of God as a pet name, folks.
Jim Butcher
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. They always have good coffee here," Ebenezar said a few moments later. "And they don't call it funny names," I said. "It's just coffee. Not frappalattegrandechino.
Jim Butcher
#74. I don't call myself a political figure but I'm taken to be.
Muhammad Ali
#75. I don't call it hate . . . I call it an awakening . . . you were the girl I chose, pure, loyal, untainted, an exemplary wife, and instead I get a schemer, plotting to pursue her own rotten ambition under the rubric of poetry . . . what a mockery, what a marriage.
Edna O'Brien
#76. It is not a conspiracy, don't call it a conspiracy. It is all out in the open and it stands on the ignorance, apathy and stupidity of the American people that is the foundation upon which the New World Order is built.
William Cooper
#77. Right. So you haven't been spending every spare hour round at geeky and slaphead's, then?"
"Don't call them that. They have names." Although privately I had my own names for them: octopus and trouser python.
Josephine Myles
#78. I'm not a celebrity. I don't call myself a celebrity. I'm an actor.
Sophia Bush
#79. You forget my name?" "No." "Then, don't call me sir. It turns me on,
Ella Frank
#80. Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease.
Anthony Daniels
#81. This is America. We don't call an election before we know who won. That, after all, is the job of the Supreme Court.
Bill Maher
#82. Whether you call on him or don't call on him, God will be present with you.
Frederick Buechner
#83. Faith minus vulnerability and mystery equals extremism. If you've got all the answers, then don't call what you do 'faith.'
Brene Brown
#84. In wartime, she thought to herself, you don't call a death murder.
Sara Sheridan
#86. Directors don't call you for your beauty but for your talent.
Monica Bellucci
#87. When you see your fellow religious man, don't call him brother; but when you see a man of honour, a man of goodness, a man of peace, a man of ethics, now you can call him as your brother!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#88. Bentley is a good bee with a shaky sense of direction and an appetite for mayhem. Just don't call him a drone. He hates that.
John Hopkins
#89. I don't really believe in rules, but I do like old-fashioned dating where you don't call the guy until he calls you. I don't think it's like he's got to do this and that's the rule.
Ashley Tisdale
#90. Don't call it sexism. Call it "manners" instead. When a woman blinks a little, shakes her head like Columbo, and says, "I'm sorry, but that sounded a little . . . uncivil," a man is apt to apologize. Because even the most rampant bigot on earth has no defense against a charge of simply being rude.
Caitlin Moran
#91. I don't call myself a singer, I'm a voice, lent to music
Debby Ryan
#93. Which of your victims are you being interviewed about today, anyway?
Jonathan, don't call my subjects victims.
Frances Hardinge
#94. It's hard to be in these relationships where they don't call you one night and you don't think about it and then the next day they are photographed with someone coming out of an event with another girl.
Chelsea Kane
#95. We don't call them inmates,' Molly said, quoting one of the psychiatrists.'We call them patients.
Dean Koontz
#96. When I'm drafting right to life language, I don't call up the nuns.
Bart Stupak
#97. Unless you're a salesman, or a bad guest on a talk show, you don't call someone by his name that often.
Patricia Marx
#98. You and I come custom-equipped in much the same way. They don't call babies bundles of joy for nothing.
Nick Carter
#99. You're already dead inside. Years of living in Espoo have made you an empty husk of a human being. They don't call their hockey team the "Espoo Blues" for nothing.
Phil Schwarzmann
#100. I opened the door. He looked down at my shirt and smiled. "Funny," he said.
"Don't call my boobs funny," I answered.
John Green
