Call Quotes

Most people I know are not hard-core religious people. They are what I would call 'lightly religious.' So I don't buy the notion that we can't laugh about religion in America.

I call everyone 'Darling' because I can't remember their names.

People might say I'm difficult, but did you ever hear anyone describe a label as 'difficult'? By nature, artists should challenge. When they call you difficult, it is a reflection of the imbalance of power.

My family used to call me an oversized kid and I think that's pretty accurate in some ways.

While it is true that we must seek value added industries like food processing plants and call center operations, we must do what is necessary to expand and develop our economic profile.

I'm not a celebrity. I don't call myself a celebrity. I'm an actor.

But don't call me an actor. I'm just a worker. I am an entertainer. Don't say that what I am doing is art.

Don't call my lyrics poetry. It's an insult to real poets.

The Congress has historically played covert communal politics in order to create what in India we call vote banks where you pit one community against another and so on in order to secure votes.

I have a bag with a toothbrush and toothpaste and all the things I might need during the day. I call the bag my trailer. Sometimes you don't have a trailer, so that's my trailer.

My aunt used to call me light bulb head because my head is small at the bottom and bigger at the top. But it was a term of endearment.

Most often the music does end up in the movie, and sometimes there's a point where I wish that it wasn't, just because I think the score would be more effective if there was less of it. But, again, that's not my call.

Bling is over. Red carpet covered with rhinestones is out. I call it 'the new modesty.'

It seems likely that many of the young who don't wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don't have the patience to make art.

Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.

No, you can't call your vote in. You have to be there on the floor to vote.

When they call the slightest spending reductions 'painful', we will say 'If government spending prevents pain, why are we suffering so much of it?' And 'If you want to experience real pain, just stay on the track we are on.'

When the second record came out, they started calling it The Band. I voted to call it The Crackers. I'm no fool.

There's a high school in Camden, New Jersey, I call the Jill Scott School. It's the Camden Creative Arts High School. Those teachers and kids are so passionate about what they do, and 98 percent of the senior class went on to college.

I love 'Last Call.' It took me a little bit to figure out that I wasn't going to be that guy in a suit telling monologue jokes.

I think it's being thrown at the wolves, we call it in our business.

I don't really have time to sit down and write. But when I think of a melody, I call up my answering machine and sing it, so I won't forget it.

There was a note on my dressing room table that said, Call Neil Young.

My parents always asked me what I thought, listened to my opinions, articulated their diagnoses of our challenges at home and abroad, and shared their ideas for how to build a more equal and prosperous country. I always felt part of their call to serve and part of my father's journey.

A country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sport.

I never felt I had the kind of relationship with Magic that I could just pick up the phone and call him at home.

It is only our conception of time that makes us call the Last Judgement by this name. It is, in fact, a kind of martial law.

The only conclusion you can draw from the real historical movement is that by and large, in day-to-day life, what Lenin called trade union consciousness dominates the working class. I would call it elementary class consciousness of the working class.

But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met.

What people want is not what some would call imaginative and often austere productions but very lavish productions which cast back into the auditorium an image of their affluence.