Call Quotes

The mind of the writer does indeed do something before it dies, and so does its owner, but I would be hard put to call it living.

I call it like the domino theory of reality. If you can go one step at a time and it seems to make sense, you can then take your audience into an area that is relatively outlandish.

America traditionally represents the greatest possibility of someone's going from nothing to something. Why? In theory, if not practice, the government stays out of the way and lets individuals take risks and reap rewards or accept the consequences of failure. We call this capitalism - or, at least, we used to.

The day you hear someone call me captain will be the day I buy a boat.

Tomorrow you might get a phone call about something wonderful and you might get a phone call about something terrible.

A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous 'girl power' sort of fad, which I think is pretty benign at best, but at worst, I think it's a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion.

They call it golf because all the other four letter words were taken.

The gay people I knew in real life were soft spoken and didn't want to call attention to themselves because they were terrified of exposing themselves, of people finding out that they're gay.

People who know me well, call me Elizabeth. I dislike Liz.

When I'm the one who sits down and looks at the blank page and writes it out all the way, then I'll call it my script.

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.