The paramedic called the press and sold me like a loaf of bread. This was news, and he wanted to be the one to report it.
Charlie Sheen

Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?
James Thurber

I called to the other men that the sky was clearing, and then a moment later I realized that what I had seen was not a rift in the clouds but the white crest of an enormous wave.
Ernest Shackleton

Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, require a particular form of the head, which is made by the stroke of a die.
Charles Babbage

If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
A. A. Milne

It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living.
Terry Pratchett

I've been called many things, but never an intellectual.
Tallulah Bankhead

For some reason at 12 or 13, I just heard Gerry Milligan and fell in love with that, whatever it was called.
Charlie Watts

The reader of these Memoirs will discover that I never had any fixed aim before my eyes, and that my system, if it can be called a system, has been to glide away unconcernedly on the stream of life, trusting to the wind wherever it led.
Giacomo Casanova

And so we were asleep there in San Diego. And our pilot called us. And his brother was on one of the other planes. And when he was leaving the airport, he saw in his rear view mirror that there was an explosion.
Reba McEntire

For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.
Michael Caine

There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.
P. G. Wodehouse

Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called everybody, and they meet at the bar.
Drew Carey

They're called "angels" because they're in heaven until the reviews come out.
Barbra Streisand

I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.
Barbra Streisand

I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: 'I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.'
Barbra Streisand

However, there is no legal and legitimate state called Israel.
Hassan Nasrallah

Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture.
Jacques Derrida

The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel.
Irvine Welsh

I was raised in Chicago, so always used Latina. It's what my Father and brothers called ourselves, when we meant the entire Spanish-speaking community of Chicago.
Sandra Cisneros