Quotes about call
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“I find that those men who are personally most polite to women, who call them angels and all that, cherish in secret the greatest contempt for them.”

Germaine Greer book The Female Eunuch

Source: The Female Eunuch

Women, Men, Secret, Angels

“Never thee stop believin' in th' Big Good Thing an' knowin' th' world's full of it - and call it what tha' likes. Tha' wert singin' to it when I come into t' garden.”

Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden

Source: The Secret Garden

World

“Reading and sauntering and lounging and dosing, which I call thinking, is my supreme Happiness.”

David Hume (1711–1776) Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian

Thinking, Reading, Happiness

“Call me or I’ll call you, but one of us will call, yes? What I mean is it’s not a competition. You don’t lose I you phone first.”

David Nicholls book One Day

Source: One Day

“People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling that bothers me.”

Octavia E. Butler (1947–2006) American science fiction writer

People

“No, no. It's always a good time for you to call, Roza.”

Richelle Mead book The Golden Lily

Source: The Golden Lily

Time

“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.”

Euripidés The Bacchae

Bacchæ l. 480 Variant translation: To the fool, he who speaks wisdom will sound foolish. Variant translation: He were a fool, methinks, who would utter wisdom to a fool. (translated by Edward Philip Coleridge) Variant translation: Wise words being brought to blinded eyes will seem as things of nought. ( translated by Gilbert Murray http://www.gutenberg.org/files/8418/8418-h/8418-h.htm) Source: The Bacchae

Fools, Sense

“Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He who can call today his own;
He who, secure within, can say,
Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today.”

John Dryden (1631–1700) English poet and playwright of the XVIIth century

Book III, Ode 29, lines 65–68.
Imitation of Horace (1685)

Happiness

“I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

Horse, Dead

“Whatever we cannot easily understand we call God; this saves much wear and tear on the brain tissues.”

Edward Abbey (1927–1989) American author and essayist

A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990)

God, Understanding, Tear

“I'll call you mine.”

Maya Banks (1964) Author

Sweet Persuasion

“I think some people call this love. I call it hell.”

Ellen Schreiber book Vampire Kisses

Source: Vampire Kisses

Love, People, Hell, Thinking

“Do you want your blood to stay where it is sochar-lar?"
Tavi lifted both eyebrows at the unfamiliar word, and glanced at Varg.
"Monkey," Varg supplied, in Aleran. "And male-child."
"He called me monkey boy?" Tavi asked.”

Jim Butcher Captain's Fury

Source: Captain's Fury

Boy

“Jackson has devised a game called "Real or Not Real" to help Peeta. He mentions something he thinks happened, and they tell him if it's true or imagined, usually followed by a brief explanation.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

Imagination, Game, Thinking, Help

“Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.”

Jodi Picoult Salem Falls

Source: Salem Falls

“I thought, my love is so good, why isn't it calling the same thing back.”

Amy Hempel (1951) Short story writer

Source: The Collected Stories

Love

“She wins who calls herself beautiful and challenges the world to change to truly see her.”

Naomi Wolf book The Beauty Myth

Source: The Beauty Myth

Beauty, World, Beauty, Change

“The largest part of what we call 'personality' is determined by how we've opted to defend ourselves against anxiety and sadness".”

Alain de Botton (1969) Swiss writer

Sadness, Parting, Personality

“Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been;
I am also called No-more, Too-late, Farewell.”

Dante Gabriel Rossetti The House of Life

A Superscription. Compare: "My name is might have been; my name is never was; my name's forgotten", Courtney Love (with Hole), "Celebrity Skin".
Source: The House of Life (1870—1881)

“Emmeline didn't call me anything. She didn't need, for I was always there. You only need names for the absent.”

Diane Setterfield book The Thirteenth Tale

Source: The Thirteenth Tale

“Freaks are called freaks and are treated as they are treated – in the main, abominably – because they are human beings who cause to echo, deep within us, our most profound terrors and desires.”

James Baldwin (1924–1987) (1924-1987) writer from the United States

Source: The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction, 1948-1985

“It's not funny, Jace," Alec interrupted, starting to his feet. "Are you just going to let her stand there and call me names?"

"Yes," Jace said kindly. "It'll do you good-- try to think of it as endurance training.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Thinking, Training

“What was that thing that could make two people promise one another to spend every day of the rest of their lives together? Ah, I found it. It was a thing called love. A small simple word.”

Cecelia Ahern book Thanks for the Memories

Source: Thanks for the Memories

Love, People

“Would a fly without wings be called a walk?”

George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian

Flying

“You can't call a ninja lord dweeb.”

Rick Riordan The Maze of Bones

Source: The Maze of Bones

“You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged.”

Jane Austen book Pride and Prejudice

Source: Pride and Prejudice

“We have become, by the power of a glorious evolutionary accident called intelligence, the stewards of life's continuity on earth. We did not ask for this role, but we cannot abjure it. We may not be suited to it, but here we are.”

Stephen Jay Gould (1941–2002) American evolutionary biologist

Source: The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History

Life, Intelligence

“I think of how life takes unexpected twists and turns, sometimes through sheer happenstance, sometimes through calculated decisions. In the end, it can all be called fate, but to me, it is more a matter of faith.”

Emily Giffin (1972) American writer

Source: Love the One You're With

Life, Fate, Faith, Thinking

“To call you excrement would be an insult to the product of my bowels.”

Clive Barker book Mister B. Gone

Source: Mister B. Gone

“I have no plans to call on you, Clarice, the world being more interesting with you in it.”

Thomas Harris The Silence of the Lambs

Source: The Silence of the Lambs

World

“Who’s that?
That’s the King.
Who’s he?
The Duke.
Who’s she?
The Princess.
What do they call you?
The Count.
What does that make me?
Umm…how about the Peasant?
And the name stuck.”

Jordan Sonnenblick (1969) American writer

Source: Drums, Girls & Dangerous Pie

Princess

“To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.”

Walt Whitman (1819–1892) American poet, essayist and journalist

“I would pick them when they bloomed. And when she called me home for supper, I'd place them in her hair and the contrast would take my breath away.”

Melina Marchetta Finnikin of the Rock

Source: Finnikin of the Rock

Home

“The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.”

Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) French writer (1821–1880)

Life, Feeling, Success, Future

“Very well. What do you do as a mercenary?”
“I specialize in usurping thrones. They call me the kingmaker.” Bragging now?”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Dark Desires After Dusk

“His voice, even now, follows me everywhere on this longest of rides, this thing called life.”

Nicholas Sparks book The Longest Ride

Ira Levinson speaking about his father, Chapter 1 Ira, p. 2
Variant: we shared the longest ride together, this thing called life
Source: 2009, The Longest Ride (2013)

Life

“If you were a god, how would you like being called a myth, an old story to explain lightning? What if I told you, Perseus Jackson, that someday people would call you a myth, just created to explain how little boys can get over losing their mothers?”

Rick Riordan book The Lightning Thief

Source: The Lightning Thief

God, People, Boy

“We should be astonished at the goodness of God, stunned that He should bother to call us by name, our mouths wide open at His love, bewildered that at this very moment we are standing on holy ground.”

Brennan Manning (1934–2013) writer, American Roman Catholic priest and United States Marine

Source: The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out

Love, God

“Hey!" Claire called after him, as she leaned her backpack against the wall.
"No onions!"
"Your loss!"
"I meant for YOU! Not if you want to get kissed tonight!"
"Damn, girl. Harsh.”

Rachel Caine (1962) American writer

Source: Ghost Town

Girl, Kiss, Loss

“As I know more of mankind, I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man, upon easier terms than I was formerly.”

Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer

1783, p. 519
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV

“The stone that was rolled before Christ's tomb might appropriately be called the philosopher's stone because its removal gave not only the pharisees but, now for 1800 years, the philosophers so much to think about.”

Sören Kierkegaard (1813–1855) Danish philosopher and theologian, founder of Existentialism

Thinking, Christ

“I am, by calling, a dealer in words; and words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”

Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) English short-story writer, poet, and novelist

Speech, quoted in The Times (February 15, 1923).
Other works
Variant: Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

“I call it Andskoti, the Adversary. It is woven with the most powerful paradoxes in the Nine Worlds—Wi-Fi with no lag, a politician’s sincerity, a printer that prints, healthy deep-fried food, and an interesting grammar lecture!”

Rick Riordan book The Sword of Summer

Source: The Sword of Summer

World, Food, Sincerity

“Why are they called buildings when they’re already finished? Shouldn’t they be called builts?”

Steven Wright (1955) American actor and author

“We have a name for your disease. We call it a hyper-aesthetic one. You have been encouraged to over-indulge yourself in literature; and have inflamed your organs of fancy.”

Sarah Waters book Fingersmith

Source: Fingersmith

Disease, Literature

“You know how hard it is to feel like an extreme falcon-headed combat machine when somebody calls you "chicken man"?”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

Source: The Red Pyramid

Feeling

“True love comes when it will, not when it's called.”

Cameron Dokey (1956) American writer

Love

“We feel unhappy and confused with our life when we don't do the focus or calling that God has on our life.”

John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor

Life, God, Feeling

“Did someone just call me the?” he asked in a lazy drawl. “It’s Bacchus, please. Or Mr. Bacchus. Or Lord Bacchus. Or, sometimes, Oh-My-Gods-Please-Don’t-Kill-Me, Lord Bacchus.”

Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena

Source: The Mark of Athena

God

“Mr. Anderson:Well, maybe we all should call it a night. Congrats to the happy couples. Will there be wedding bells soon?

SnowGirl:Definitely. I mean, if you help a guy kill a dwarf, he should marry you.”

Alex Flinn book Beastly

Source: Beastly

Guy, Wedding, Help, Night

“What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.”

T.S. Eliot (1888–1965) 20th century English author

Goodbye

“To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target”

Ashleigh Brilliant (1933) American author and cartoonist

Funny

“You have been known to call upon Brother Zachariah for a broken toe.
"It was turning green,” said Will”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: The Whitechapel Fiend

“There is no such thing as a good call at 7 AM. It's been my experience that all calls between the hours of 11 PM and 9 AM are disaster calls.”

Janet Evanovich (1943) Novelist

“Call me a sinner,
Mock me maliciously:
I was your insomnia,
I was your grief.”

Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966) Russian modernist poet

“The voice of Love seemed to call to me, but it was a wrong number.”

P.G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) English author

Source: Very Good, Jeeves!

Love

“But it's not the name I'd give to a conqueror of worlds… I would've gone with Thundro or Ragnor. I might just call him Thundro anyway.”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Source: Shadow Heir

World

“I failed eating, failed drinking, failed not cutting myself into shreds. Failed friendship. Failed sisterhood and daughterhood. Failed mirrors and scales and phone calls. Good thing I'm stable.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

Friendship, Drink

“Ybon was the one who suggested calling the wait something else. Yeah, like what? Maybe, she said, you could call it life.”

Junot Díaz book The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Source: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Life, Waiting

“Foaly: Caballine likes me to be masterful. She calls me her stallion.”

Eoin Colfer (1965) Irish author of children's books

Source: Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony (2006)

“I have, of course, been called many other things. Most of them uncouth, although very few were unearned”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Name of the Wind

Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 7, “Of Beginnings and the Names of Things” (p. 58)
Context: I have been called Kvothe the Bloodless, Kvothe the Arcane, and Kvothe Kingkiller. I have earned those names. Bought and paid for them.
But I was brought up as Kvothe. My father once told me it meant “to know.”
I have, of course, been called many other things. Most of them uncouth, although very few were unearned.
I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in. I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day. I have talked to gods, loved women, and written songs that make the minstrels weep.
You may have heard of me.

“What do we call visible light? We call it color. But the electromagnetic spectrum runs to zero in one direction and infinity in the other, so really, children, mathematically, all of light is invisible.”

Anthony Doerr book All the Light We Cannot See

Source: All the Light We Cannot See

Children, Color, Mathematics, Light

“They all yelled in excitement. Tamara yelled because she was happy. Aaron yelled because he liked it when other people were happy, and Call yelled because he was sure they were going to die.”

Cassandra Clare book The Iron Trial

Source: The Iron Trial

People, Happiness

“They called each other family and that’s what they were—sisters. Many people in the world had family of the heart, kin by choice rather than by blood, and hers had come along in her darkest hour and saved her life.”

Christine Feehan American writer

Source: Spirit Bound

Life, People, World, Family

“I know that what you call 'God' really exists, but not in the form you think; God is primal cosmic energy, the love in your body, your integrity, and your perception of the nature in you and outside of you.”

Wilhelm Reich book Listen, Little Man!

Source: Listen, Little Man!

Love, God, Nature, Thinking

“What they call you is one thing. What you answer to is something else.”

Lucille Clifton (1936–2010) American poet

Attitude

“To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.”

Isaac Asimov (1920–1992) American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, known for his works of science fiction …

"The “Threat” of Creationism" http://www.stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/azimov_creationism.html in New York Times Magazine (14 June 1981) General sources Context: There are many aspects of the universe that still cannot be explained satisfactorily by science; but ignorance only implies ignorance that may someday be conquered. To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

God

“Maybe I should add some graffiti to spice it up. For a good time call the Consort. Beast Lord eats your food and turns into a lion in his sleep. Mahon has hemorrhoids. Boudas do it better. Warning, paranoid attack jaguar on the prowl…”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Breaks

Food, Sleep, Time

“You're born, you know, the wrong names, wrong parents. I mean, that happens. You call yourself what you want to call yourself. This is the land of the free.”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

Parent

“Here is another marvy glimpse into the gothic basement that I call my mind.”

Louise Rennison (1951–2016) British writer

Source: Away Laughing on a Fast Camel

“All human plans [are] subject to ruthless revision by Nature, or Fate, or whatever one preferred to call the powers behind the Universe.”

Arthur C. Clarke book 2010: Odyssey Two

Source: 2010: Odyssey Two

Fate, Nature, Universe

“And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.”

Raymond Carver (1938–1988) American short story author and poet

Feeling

“Whether you call someone a hero or a monster is all relative to where the focus of your consciousness may be.”

Joseph Campbell The Power of Myth

Source: The Power of Myth

“Hello," Magnus said to the monkey. The monkey did not reply. "I shall call you Ragnor.”

Cassandra Clare (1973) American author

Source: The Runaway Queen

“Peter, you're twelve years old. I'm ten. They have a word for people our age. They call us children and they treat us like mice.”

Orson Scott Card book Ender's Game

Source: Ender's Game

Children, People, Age

“They're powerful, those songs. At times they've been my only way back, the only door out of the dark, bad places the black dog calls home.”

Johnny Cash (1932–2003) American singer-songwriter

Source: Cash

Dogs, Way, Home, Time

“The more vast the amount of time we've left behind us, the more irresistible is the voice calling us to return to it.”

Milan Kundera book Ignorance

Source: Ignorance

Time

“I took the life of the woman I was supposed to call mother in the process of being born… in order to become the world's strongest shinobi… an incarnation of sand was implanted inside of me…”

Masashi Kishimoto (1974) Japanese manga artist

Life, World

“It's never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name. It just shows you how poor that person is, it doesn't hurt you.”

Harper Lee book To Kill a Mockingbird

Pt.1, ch.11
Atticus Finch
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

Thinking, Hurt, Personality

“Those who have the disease called Jesus will never be cured.”

Brennan Manning (1934–2013) writer, American Roman Catholic priest and United States Marine

The Relentless Tenderness of Jesus https://books.google.com/books?id=xvv4HcYdxd0C&pg=PA42&dq=%22Those+who+have+the+disease+called+Jesus+will+never+be+cured.%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi9_f7L-JTkAhXJ1VkKHfSGDHUQ6AEwAXoECAEQAg#v=onepage&q=%22Those%20who%20have%20the%20disease%20called%20Jesus%20will%20never%20be%20cured.%22&f=false (1986), p. 42 1980s Source: The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out

Disease