All Quotes

California - with more cars, more drivers and more people - still has less DWI-related deaths than Texas does.
‐‐ Pete Gallego

Californians are people who insist on growing their own vegetables, but they won't dig up the pretty lawn, won't plant anything for fear of getting dirty, and they use fragrant bath salts from The Body Shop instead of smelly compost.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

Californians are worried about whether they will have a job along with ballooning federal spending and deficits.
‐‐ Carly Fiorina

Californians devised a system of electricity sales that ignored every dimension of the free market.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

Californians don't have that marvelous British cynicism, but then the British can be so patronizing at times.
‐‐ Alex Kingston

Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.
‐‐ Don DeLillo

Call a man 'ignorant,' and you have license to show the world your vast fund of knowledge and wise him up.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

Call for the grandest of all earthly spectacles, what is that? It is the sun going to his rest.
‐‐ Thomas de Quincey

Call Him by whatever name you will, and He will respond.
‐‐ Dada Vaswani

Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps are all a clear because to a clear why.
‐‐ Sara Teasdale

Call it a case of observer bias on my part, but Humanist Paganism seems to be an emerging option for those who want to be part of the Pagan community, but who want to be a little more intellectual about their practices, and they really don't care about the 'woo' anymore.
‐‐ Brendan Myers

Call it a hunch, but I sense that many of us are not entirely comfortable with a world in which every single thing we buy creates a cloud of data. I'd like to have an option to not have a record of how much I tipped, or what I bought at 1:08 A.M. at a corner market in New York City.
‐‐ John Battelle

Call it Camelot's revenge: the class of court scribes who made it their profession to uphold a make-believe version of America free of conflict and ruled by noble men helped Nixon get away with it for so long - because, after all, America was ruled by noble men.
‐‐ Rick Perlstein

Call it egotistical or narcissist, but I think that's what we all look for in books - the right stories that help us make sense of the world that we, on a very personal level, live in every day.
‐‐ John Corey Whaley

Call it holistic or holographic thinking, it's been quite effective imagining the world's problems are all right in front of you on a smaller scale with your band. You deal with those relationships, and that's where real major change begins.
‐‐ Stone Gossard

Call it loyalty, call it what you want, but I suppose I've got people up here who I'm really tight with, we've made a lot of great bonds over the last few years and I've got people in my corner I can trust.
‐‐ Jonathan Brown

Call it my little gesture toward social conscience, but I like to think I'm teaching a certain number of people to read. Now that sounds pretentious!
‐‐ David Eddings

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.
‐‐ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Call it nature or nurture, there are differences in how men and women approach professional conduct, and facing these issues head-on will make us all more equipped to succeed.
‐‐ Kathryn Minshew

Call it the Tiger Mom effect: In the business world today, failure is apparently not an option.
‐‐ Naveen Jain

Call it vanity, call it arrogant presumption, call it what you wish, but I would grope for the nearest open grave if I had no newspaper to work for, no need to search for and sometimes find the winged word that just fits, no keen wonder over what each unfolding day may bring.
‐‐ Bob Considine

Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder.
‐‐ Nikita Khrushchev

Call me a cockeyed pessimist, but I'm having trouble finding any good news in the trashing of Harriet Miers.
‐‐ Ellen Goodman

Call me a midget, but just be real. I am all for correct terms, but please don't tiptoe around feelings. Don't be too careful, because that shuts you off from people.
‐‐ Peter Dinklage

Call me a nerd if you like, but I do find it hard to leave home without my laptop and a good book.
‐‐ Moby

Call me All-American, but I love Ham and Cheese sandwiches. And not just any old ham and cheese sandwich... My mother's is the best. I've tried many times to make these sandwiches on my own, but it's never the same.
‐‐ Andy Roddick

Call me an optimist, but in the past 300 years we have built amazing technologies which - by and large - have advanced humanity.
‐‐ Sebastian Thrun

Call me an over anxious, middle-class mum, but my eight-and-a-half-year old son looks very much, to me, like he's headed for a life of crime.
‐‐ Arabella Weir

Call me, and I'd do anything for the Democratic Party.
‐‐ Art Alexakis

Call me crazy, but I still believe in you grownups!
‐‐ Kid President

Call me crazy - I love elk meat!
‐‐ Zoe Saldana

Call me Ildar! Call me Abra-ca-da-bra! My name is my name.
‐‐ Ildar Abdrazakov

'Call Me' is not an exceptional Al Green album, but it is as solid as a rock at its center.
‐‐ Jon Landau

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

Call me old-fashioned, but I believe that morality is not just a matter of opinion.
‐‐ Brian Dennehy

Call me old-fashioned, but I like my conditioners to be conditioners and my shampoos to be shampoos.
‐‐ Kyan Douglas

Call me tacky, but I love the union of sweet and sour, even in some now-unloved Oriental dishes incorporating pineapple and ketchup.
‐‐ Yotam Ottolenghi

Call me territorial or narcissistic, but I avoid novels about people who share my vocation.
‐‐ Julia Glass

Call me the author.
‐‐ Joan Didion

Call me Woz.
‐‐ John Wozniak

Call no man foe, but never love a stranger.
‐‐ Stella Benson

Call no man happy before he dies, he is at best but fortunate.
‐‐ Solon

Call no man happy until he is dead, but only lucky.
‐‐ Solon

Call not that man wretched, who whatever ills he suffers, has a child to love.
‐‐ Eric Hoffer

'Call Of Duty' initially cut its teeth on World War II simulation stuff, and then we gradually advanced to the end of the Cold War, but you can't keep doing the same thing over and over again. And I think that because 'Call Of Duty' cut its teeth on presenting 'realism,' in quotes... verisimilitude.
‐‐ David S. Goyer

Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation.
‐‐ Robert Hall

Call-time has renewed my faith in the need for public financing of elections. 'Call-time' is where I as the candidate, sit in a room with my 'call-time manager,' and a phone. Then I call people and ask them for money. For hours. Apparently, I'm really good at it.
‐‐ Al Franken

Call us the future from your past.
‐‐ Fred Schneider

Call waiting was, for me, that was like the best invention ever, because there was four kids in my family, and to get on the phone was impossible.
‐‐ Maggie Carey

Call your opinions your creed, and you will change them every week.
‐‐ Phillips Brooks