Call Quotes

I call it people-to-people politics and that's what politics should be about, reaching out and helping one another and touching one another about what we're going to do.

I call myself a feminist, not a feminist filmmaker. If somebody asked me if I had a feminist sensibility it would be pretty hard to deny, but is it the theme of my work? Not necessarily. I'm interested in a lot of things.

By our Heavenly Father and only because of God, only because of God. We're like other couples. We do not get along perfectly; we do not go without arguments and, as I call them, fights, and heartache and pain and hurting each other. But a marriage is three of us.

I don't think for a minute we went to Iraq for oil. It just so happened that it had oil. But I think we'll come out of the Iraqi situation with a call on their oil at market price.

What we call barbecuing in this country is actually direct grilling. In many countries, it also means cooking in an enclosed box with a heat source, ideally wood, all year round.

It's about taking advantage of the opportunities you have right now, and right now we're in a position where you call somebody and they're willing to pick up and take the call because they're a fan, you have to take advantage of that and have a chance to capitalize on your ideas.

The business that people do in LA on the social level is amazing. You go to a restaurant, bump into this guy or that guy. The next day you get a call, and they want you in their movie.

So here we have pi squared, which an engineer would call 10.

Some said he couldn't take on the insurance companies that were ripping us off. But President Obama made the tough and right call to save lives, save Medicare and ensure no one goes broke just because they get sick.

I don't want to have a friend unless I can call them one of my best friends.

O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.

The best plan now is to have as many bosses as possible. I call it boss diversity. If you work for a company and you have one boss and that boss doesn't like you or wants to get rid of you, you're in trouble. But if you work for yourself, you have lots of bosses, who are your customers, and if a few of them decide they don't like you, that's okay.

Some dog I got too. We call him Egypt. Because in every room he leaves a pyramid.

With the success of a show, you get an opportunity to call attention to things that you believe in.

Call me Jonah. My parents did, or nearly did. They called me John.

What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.

To insult someone we call him "bestial." For deliberate cruelty and nature, "human" might be the greater insult.

I'm always glad to be offered roles, but wouldn't take any role as this could do you more harm than good, but I've been at what they call 'on the top' as far as being known for twenty years.

Those who devote their lives to serving our country, children, and neighborhoods are giving back. They have answered the call to serve.

I beg. I call. I badger. I cajole. Part of the secret is everyone has fun and that's really motivating.

An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'

Originally, I came from Texas, and we lived on - I guess you'd call it welfare, what we called relief.

Yeah, I know, some people are against drunk driving, and I call those people "the cops." But you know, sometimes, you've just got no choice; those kids gotta get to school!

I like sneakers. I guess I could call myself a collector.

But I can't bear it when somebody who some man made a pass at - to call that violence seems to me absurd and insulting to women who've really met violence, who've been raped or bashed.

Bishops are like umpires. You have to have them to call the close decisions.

I had a white senator call me a rag head, and I had an African-American legislator call me a conservative with a tan.

If half-black Barack Obama had decided years ago to call himself white - which his genes certainly entitled him to do - his story would have carried very different meaning. If millions of part-black people had followed him into whiteness, then the N.A.A.C.P. would be in true crisis.

The call of love sounds very hollow among these immobile rocks.