Called Quotes

Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.

Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%.

I was on the speech team, we called it forensics.

Frank called me one day and said, 'I have an idea for a movie, why don't you come over and I'll tell you?' So I went over and we sat down and he said, 'This picture starts in heaven'. That shook me.

It is easily overlooked that what is now called vintage was once brand new.

I was directing before I knew it was called that.

I will have a one-hour program called the Mission Watch, where I will describe details of the mission and give additional information about the lessons from space.

I was taken in by what might be called the Hard Times version of the Communists' advertising or recruiting technique.

If you write something that gets a bad response, or someone commits candor or is off message, there are often consequences almost immediately when it appears in the paper or a magazine, that somebody gets called into the boss's office. And sometimes it can result in a loss of access for the reporter.

I occasionally got called the Rush Limbaugh of Indiana, but most people knew that my style was different.

Are there any swamps in Oklahoma? Yes, there is. It's called Tulsa.

I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism; but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.

Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age.

Research has been called good business, a necessity, a gamble, a game. It is none of these - it's a state of mind.

We created a line of pet food called Nutrish that's made to human standards, and 100 percent of the proceeds go to animal rescue. One of our top-tier donors is the ASPCA, and they help us challenge animal shelters all across the country to get more animals placed in homes.

And then I did one called High Rollers and that was a lot of fun.

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term of Natural Selection.

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.

I don't ask myself, is the life congenial to me? But, am I fitted for, am I called to, the Ministry?

I practice yoga at home to a TV show called 'Inhale,' taught by Steve Ross. I figured that if the people on the show could stretch that deep then I could too. I ended up pulling my hip flexor. But that's how I met my husband. Paul was the physical therapist my coach called to meet with me after hours.

The only reason anyone ever called me a hero is because I get this paper, here.

The kids called me King of the Surf Guitar. I surfed sunup to sundown.

In short, not only are things not what they seem, they are not even what they are called!

Back 20 years ago, I was recording with Bruce Springsteen, and his producer called me and said I had to be in the studio the next day to finish the sessions, and I couldn't. I had to be in court, in California. All this took like 10 years out of my life.

Being called ugly and fat and disgusting to look at from the time I could barely understand what the words meant has scarred me so deep inside that I have learned to hunt, stalk, claim, own and defend my own loveliness.

I had always wanted to write a song called, The Vicious Circle. I always thought it was like, the kids are born there, they grow up there, they die there.

As soon as my trial was over, we tried to use the energy that had developed around my case to create another organization, which we called the National Alliance against Racist and Political Repression.

We were called The Toilets originally - we were flushed with success.

It felt like being in the center of the world, and I felt like I was a witness to history and I knew that the whole world was watching on television. So, I could feel the collective consciousness of the world focused on this little strip of land called Seattle.

I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace, that two are called a law firm, and that three or more become a congress.