My boyfriend calls me 'princess', but I think of myself more along the lines of 'monkey' and 'retard'.
Alicia Silverstone

My friends, history, history calls us to this time and to this place. A solemn choice rests with us - where do we go from here? Do we move slowly and incrementally? Or do we seize the challenge of our time and tackle the great issues of our day.
Thomas Vilsack

My major aim in writing is to set out flags and issue wake-up calls.
James Broughton

My mother's very proud of the name she gave me. She thought it sounded rhythmically better. It doesn't really make a difference to me what people call me, but since my mother calls me Holly Marie when she's angry, I prefer just my first name.
Holly Marie Combs

My work begun to spread out. And calls to the universities begun to take me out of my garden, you know.
Howard Finster

No love is entirely without worth, even when the frivolous calls to the frivolous and the base to the base.
Iris Murdoch

Of course it's difficult to turn anything down when Mike Nichols calls you personally.
Andrea Martin

One might think that the money value of an invention constitutes its reward to the man who loves his work. But... I continue to find my greatest pleasure, and so my reward, in the work that precedes what the world calls success.
Thomas A. Edison

One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet's curtain calls is the Royal Ballet's dancing.
Clive Barnes

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.
Blaise Pascal

People ask me if I ever see my father and I say yes, because he puts in the effort. He calls all the time to tell us he's proud of us.
Jenna Bush

People who are funny and smart and return phone calls get much better press than people who are just funny and smart.
Howard Simons

Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Poetry, almost by definition, calls attention to its language and form.
Robert Morgan

Politics calls for robust debate and criticism, but this should never descend to personal and demeaning slurs.
Kim Beazley

Republicans rejected calls for amnesty and we've fought efforts to provide illegal aliens with taxpayer funded benefits. The American people are far closer to our Republican approach to border security than they are to Nancy Pelosi's approach.
Marsha Blackburn

She belongs to a race of delightful women, who never do any harm, whom everybody calls good, and who are very severe on those who do not pretend to be good.
Gilbert Parker

Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.
John Lahr

Some of the best times in my life happened under the influence of drugs... I'd still be doing it if I could make good judgement calls. I'd still be doing it if I didn't blow up to the size of an aircraft hangar, because it was a great time.
Robbie Williams

Some people may have noticed the new computer shelf at the anchor desk. Rather than phone calls, we want to take real time e-mails, and we'll be starting that very soon.
Catherine Crier