Some people call me a publicity hound.

You can’t really call yourself an environmentalist if you’re still consuming animals. You just can’t.

What men call accident is God’s own part.

Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you’ll find many of them are unwise.

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

We had a whirlwind romance. That’s what happens when you date a tornado. Hold on, I have to stop tweeting for a bit because Kansas keeps calling.

When you go to commercial, you want something to call the viewers back, and if you don’t have a decent act out, the audience probably won’t be there in the numbers you want when the...

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

I was going to be a teacher. I was applying to graduate school when I got the call to do ‘Same Love,’ actually. I was gonna go to Boston University for my masters in teaching.

My whole thing is to inspire, to better people, to better myself forever in this thing that we call rap, this thing that we call hip hop.

When you call upon a Thoroughbred, he gives you all the speed, strength of heart and sinew in him. When you call on a jackass, he kicks.

I think what makes us human – is our interconnectedness among people. It’s our ability to form and maintain relationships. It’s the barometer by which we call ourselves human.

A little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world.

My splurge would be a pair of leather Christian Louboutin over-the-knee boots. They’re sick! I would do a really stretchy skinny jean under a black turtleneck and call it a day!

You can call me an Eisenhower Republican. There is a gigantic gulf between an Eisenhower Republican and the kind of fringe brand of Republicanism that is being so vocally promoted today.

Unlike most major American cities, Honolulu is geographically insulated from the rest of the country. When disaster strikes we cannot call on neighboring states for assistance.

My mother was the total influence. My father was what we call a nomadic person; he was a wanderer.

It’s true that I don’t rearrange that much in the fiction, but I feel if you change even one name or the order of one event then you have to call it fiction or you...

We call ‘Ain’t No Mountain’ the golden egg that landed us at Motown.

I wouldn’t call myself a Christian because I do not believe that Jesus is God, nor do I believe that he ever thought that he was God, or that he ever said that he was...

They call me before they go into production, when they have a prototype, and they call legitimate saxophonists, too. As opposed to the other kind.

Goods are traded, but services are consumed and produced in the same place. And you cannot export a haircut. But we are coming close to exporting a haircut, the appointment part. What kind of haircut...

Give up smoking. Don’t get so fat. So much illness is self-induced – which I can’t stand. And I’m not a good nursemaid. Don’t call me if you’re ill.

I know people watch our movies and they’ll see a lot of images – they call it gross-out – that they don’t like, and I understand that. It’s an important movie and one that’s extremely...

I don’t call myself an ‘industrial designer,’ because I’m other things. Industrial designers want to make novel things. Novelty is a concept of commerce, not an aesthetic concept.

My wife and I take what we call our Friday comedy day off. We watch standup comics on TV. The raunchier the better. We love Eddie Izzard.

King of England, and you, duke of Bedford, who call yourself regent of the kingdom of France… settle your debt to the king of Heaven; return to the Maiden, who is envoy of the king...

People ask me a lot, ‘Well, can you be pro-life and be feminist? Can you be conservative and be feminist?’ And I think that, yeah, maybe personally you can be those things. But I think...

It would have been very easy for me to put on a little tight skirt and go out and try what I always call the ‘Barbie doll’ roles.

Any good story can galvanize a person, make him/her think about things a different way, reassess their own motives and needs, but that’s never my intent. That’s an unintended consequence of me just trying to...

I’ll call somebody ‘dumb’ or ‘stupid’ if they make a dumb or stupid play. I don’t know any other word for it, and if they don’t like the word, that’s too bad.

I want people around me who call me out and hold me accountable.

There comes a time in a man’s life when he hears the call of the sea. If the man has a brain in his head, he will hang up the phone immediately.

When you’re on, like, NBC, or – I don’t want to call out any names. But when you’re on bigger networks, they just want to find something that sticks and aren’t really necessarily trying to...

The role of a do-gooder is not what actors call a fat part.

Cancer is such a wake-up call to remind us how high the cosmic stakes really are and how short and brief and frail life really is.

If I pick up a book with spaceships on the cover, I want spaceships. If I see one with dragons, I want there to be dragons inside the book. Proper labeling. Ethical labeling. I don’t...

As an actor, you’re like, ‘Yeah, I want that phone call from Peter Jackson saying, ‘You’re my first choice for Thorin Oakenshield.’

When my mother threw a party, even as a kid, she’d call me in and say, ‘Organize it for me.’

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

As we begin to have landings on the moon, we can alternate those with vertical launch of similar crew modules on similar launch vehicles for vertical-launch tourism in space, if you want to call it...

Asshole” is another word for the guy you’re dating. You deserve a fcking phone call.

Your brand will be called on upon when it’s needed. When it’s not needed at the moment, keep it safely till it’s call comes. Some brands shine occasionally!

My dad used to call me ‘the human pretzel’ because I was able to bend my body, and because my legs are very long.

My father grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., with my grandparents. In Norwegian my name is pronounced ‘Yoo’ but my father used to call me ‘Joe.’

But I also think it’s up to the fan base to call in the radio stations and demand that the more mature artists be played as well.

In the wine world, crusaders would have wine consumers believe that the only wines of merit are something completely indefinable but which they call ‘authentic’ or ‘natural.’

There is an awful lot of what I call recreational jazz going on, where people go out and learn a particular language or style and become real sharks on somebody else’s language.

Tori’s my legal name. My niece and nephews, they all call me Aunt Ellen, because I went by my middle name years ago, before I turned 18.

I came into the Agency with a set of ideas and attitudes that were quite typical of people coming into the Agency at that time. You could call it liberal anti-communism.