Call Quotes

Arnold Schwarzenegger, I don't know if you'd call him a great actor, but he's amazing in terms of his presence, and he is interesting enough that you want to watch him.

There's a call to adventure. It's something in the inner psyche of humanity, particularly males.

If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom.

The moon is bland in color. I call it shades of gray. You know, the only color we see is what we bring or the Earth, which is looking down upon us all the time. And to find orange soil on the moon was a surprise.

I alone of English writers have consciously set myself to make music out of what I may call the sound of sense.

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

Anyone who's a parent dreads that call in the middle of the night. I have four grown children and I still dread it.

I call a fig a fig, a spade a spade.

My favorite New York memory is that blizzard in '96. I get chills thinking about it. It's my favorite time here - call me crazy. I'm from Canada, and it's very cold up there.

Do not join encounter groups. If you enjoy being made to feel inadequate, call your mother.

Why don't we call on the credit card companies to be accountable? They need to be held accountable for their predatory lending practices.

I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from.

Contrast that with the call of the Liberal Democrats in April, when they were prepared to call upon the British people to participate in a 24-hour strike. It shows how far to the right the Labour Party's gone.

There's the pressure of being a No. 1 on the call sheet, being a lead actor. There's almost this feeling like being captain of the team. You want to put a bit of energy into actually setting a good example.

I believe the only time when we can call for intervention is when there is an ongoing genocide.

When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.

When the generation after me started getting on the cut, a lot of them would call me over to hang out or go jam and scratch and they were always separate from each other.

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.

What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command.

When I was in the ring at the Olympics, it was my father's words that I was hearing, not the coaches'. 'I never listened to what the coaches said. I would call my father and he would give me advice from prison.

Drudgery is as necessary to call out the treasures of the mind, as harrowing and planting those of the earth.

The attorney general would call at 5 o'clock in the evening and say: 'Tomorrow morning we are going to try to integrate the University of Mississippi. Get us a memo on what we're likely to do, and what we can do if the governor sends the National Guard there.'

The courtroom is a quiet place, Judge Roberts, where you park your political ideology, and you call the balls and you call the strikes.

Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.

The final phone call that said we're going to be picked up again was just a miracle. We've overcome the impossible and we're still pushing forward. I know John is smiling and so happy that he gets to watch us on TV.

As for the historical inspirations I drew on in writing The Snow Queen, I suppose I would call them more cross-cultural inspirations, though they frequently involve past societies as well as present day ones.

Never call an accountant a credit to his profession; a good accountant is a debit to his profession.

What is normally called religion is what I would tend to call music - participating in music, listening to music, making records and singing.

I hope there have been times when I made you all proud, or made you all smile or at least piqued your interest in this wonderful institution we call government.

You can scream at me, call me for a shoot at midnight, keep me waiting for hours - as long as what ends up on the screen is perfect.