All Quotes

Calling a book 'young adult' is only important in that it can help get a book to the right reader. After that, it's a useless abstraction and should be discarded.
‐‐ Eliot Schrefer

Calling a show a 'guilty pleasure' is like saying 'I'm embarrassed to say I watch it but I can't stop.' That's not a compliment.
‐‐ Shonda Rhimes

Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.
‐‐ Fran Lebowitz

Calling a young artist 'great' these days can give one the heebie-jeebies: The word has been denatured in the past decade.
‐‐ Jerry Saltz

Calling China's online censorship system a 'Great Firewall' is increasingly trendy, but misleading. All walls, being the creation of engineers, can be breached with the right tools.
‐‐ Evgeny Morozov

Calling gender violence a women's issue is part of the problem. It gives a lot of men an excuse not to pay attention.
‐‐ Jackson Katz

Calling 'Instagram' a photo-sharing app is like calling a newspaper a letter-sharing book, or a Mozart grand era symphony a series of notes. 'Instagram' is less about the medium and more about the network.
‐‐ Kevin Systrom

Calling into question the Touquet deal on the pretext that Britain has voted for Brexit and will have to start negotiations to leave the union doesn't make sense.
‐‐ Francois Hollande

Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.
‐‐ Carl Sandburg

Calling Michelle 'Obama Barack's baby mama?' Tell me, is that acceptable? But the Obamas aren't the only targets. Fox's pattern of race-baiting and fear-mongering regularly focuses on black leaders, black institutions and ordinary black people.
‐‐ Nas

Calling on each molecule one by one? No way. I just told all of them to be quiet - except for a selected few.
‐‐ Stefan Hell

Calling on you to give up control of the outer world and gladly accept control of your inner relationship with God, devotion is essential for fully realizing your soul's calling.
‐‐ Debbie Ford

Calling one thing 'literature' and another 'fiction' is a way to create status where there is none.
‐‐ Tucker Max

Calling oneself a hero after making mistakes shouldn't earn public trust.
‐‐ Mike Medavoy

Calling out people for not voting, what experts term 'public shaming,' can prod someone to cast a ballot.
‐‐ Charles Duhigg

Calling Rand Paul 'the most interesting man in politics' is an invitation to an argument - but one we suspect he'd love to have.
‐‐ Nancy Gibbs

Callings in the church, as important as they are, by their very nature are only for a period of time, and then an appropriate release takes place.
‐‐ Ezra Taft Benson

Callista Gingrich has, I suspect, given Newt's advisers a giant headache. She's a constant presence at her husband's side - and a constant reminder of his acknowledged infidelity. Newt cheated on his second wife with Callista, a woman 23 years his junior.
‐‐ Patti Davis

Callousness and insolence bring to bare unanimous social condemnation, while the simple efforts of politeness are admired; even in those who are otherwise despised.
‐‐ Bryant H. McGill

Calls for the simplification of abstract or allusive art have always come from governments suspicious of artists themselves. This is why totalitarian regimes have always legislated some form of realism.
‐‐ Russell Smith

Calm can solve all issues.
‐‐ Pope Shenouda III

Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that's very important for good health.
‐‐ Dalai Lama

Calm, open debate, and logical thought drive strength to its maximum effectiveness.
‐‐ Billy Corgan

Calm self-confidence is as far from conceit as the desire to earn a decent living is remote from greed.
‐‐ Channing Pollock

Calmness is the cradle of power.
‐‐ Josiah Gilbert Holland

Calories from protein affect your brain, your appetite control center, so you are more satiated and satisfied.
‐‐ Mark Hyman

Caltech is a very adventurous place. Part of the culture is that we tolerate people doing things that seem impossible, and also synthesizing and borrowing ideas across very kooky and unusual boundaries.
‐‐ Colin Camerer

Caltech was a meat grinder like I could never have imagined.
‐‐ Vernon L. Smith

Calumny is only the noise of madmen.
‐‐ Diogenes

Calvin and Hobbes are the only two characters from my childhood reading that I return to with any regularity, and they have grown with me, yielding newer and deeper meaning.
‐‐ Anthony Marra

Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont.
‐‐ Clarence Darrow

Calvin had finally taken a look at the ET tape, and he had reacted just as she had expected he would. He loved it; he loved me. Suddenly he was thinking of me for everything: underwear, jeans, suits, even the Escape fragrance campaign.
‐‐ Michael Bergin

Calvin was very clever. We did the pictures and made the commercial, and that really worked.
‐‐ Kate Moss

Cam disappears at the end of 'Rapture.' It was the only way for me to say good-bye to him at the time, and it's the way he prefers to split, anyway. I always knew I would return to him. He's been my favorite from the start. Readers have long asked what happened to him, but I had to wait for his story to come to me on its own.
‐‐ Lauren Kate

Cambodia is not going to be bought by anyone.
‐‐ Hun Sen

Cambodia possesses now the rights to look far into the future and everything for making a future construction is waiting for the Cambodian own efforts.
‐‐ Hun Sen

Cambodia wanted no part of SEATO. We would look after ourselves as neutrals and Buddhists.
‐‐ Norodom Sihanouk

Cambridge is heaven, I am convinced it is the nicest place in the world to live. As you walk round, most people look incredibly bright, as if they are probably off to win a Nobel prize.
‐‐ Sophie Hannah

Cambridge is one of the best universities in the world, especially in my field.
‐‐ Stephen Hawking

Cambridge is really understanding and helpful, so that's been good, and it's just a case of trying to get stuff done when I am there and just being efficient with managing my time.
‐‐ Hannah Murray

Cambridge is thriving and Britain is working. We have been telling people - 'if you value it, vote for it' - and this is particularly relevant in Cambridge.
‐‐ Anne Campbell

Cambridge was a joy. Tediously. People reading books in a posh place. It was my fantasy. I loved it. I miss it still.
‐‐ Zadie Smith

Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
‐‐ Aaron Klug

Came but for friendship, and took away love.
‐‐ Thomas Moore

Camels are still trained in Alice Springs for tourist jaunts and for occasional sale to Australia's zoos.
‐‐ Robyn Davidson

Camels are wonderful animals. Witty, intelligent and sensitive.
‐‐ Robyn Davidson

Camera 1.0 was film. Camera 2.0 was digital. 3.0 is a light-field camera that opens all these new possibilities for your picture taking.
‐‐ Ren Ng

Camera lies all the time. It's all it does is lie, because when you choose this moment instead of this moment, when you... the moment you've made a choice, you're lying about something larger. 'Lying' is an ugly word. I don't mean lying. But any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same.
‐‐ Richard Avedon

Cameras aren't guns. They can't really hurt you.
‐‐ Matthew McConaughey

Cameras help to minimize collateral damage, and very often, without a camera a missile cannot fire. Certainly, without a camera a drone can't function, which means that the very ways in which we wage war are determined in part by how cameras work and whether they work at all.
‐‐ Judith Butler