All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.
Ernest Hemingway

I got a pet monkey called Charlie Chan.
Jimi Hendrix

My son is now an "entrepreneur." That's what you're called when you don't have a job.
Ted Turner

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

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Plato

Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.
Jonathan Swift

There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.
Thomas Paine

What we call creative work, ought not to be called work at all, because it isn't. I imagine that Thomas Edison never did a day's work in his last fifty years.
Stephen Leacock

It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.
Stephen Leacock

The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice.
Voltaire

Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.
Jane Austen

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.
William Blake

The White House looked into a plan that would allow illegal immigrants to stay in the United States. The plan called for a million Mexicans to marry a million of our ugliest citizens.
Dennis Miller

A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.
Jackie Kennedy

Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep.
Lord Byron

Every person above the ordinary has a certain mission that they are called to fulfill.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Some folks look at me and see a certain swagger, which in Texas is called "walking."
George W. Bush

To attract men, I wear a perfume called "New Car Interior."
Rita Rudner

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