Call Me Quotes - Page 27

• If a farmer calls me to a sick animal, he couldn't care less if I were George Bernard Shaw.

  James Herriot

  Animal, Sick, Care

  "But It Did Happen To A Vet" by Jonathan Margolis, "Time Magazine", December 12, 2002.

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• This kitchen is completely calm. Some of the old-fashioned chefs - they become kings in their kitchen, they've got to be called chef. But I don't care if someone calls me chef or Heston, it really doesn't bother me.

  Heston Blumenthal

  Kings, Kitchen, Care

  "Heston Blumenthal: 'I like a kebab as much as the next person'" by Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. February 13, 2011.

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• If there is a load you have to bear that you can't carry, I'm right up the road. I'll share your load if you just call me.

  Bill Withers

  Friendship, Bears, Share

  Song: Lean On Me, Album: Still Bill, 1972

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• Every once in a while, someone would call me a foreigner or a Yankee, or whatever. In the United States, someone might say something, like how kids do, to point out that you're different. That would come as a surprise to me. As you get old, you either get defensive about it or you accept it and you reach out, because you realize the world's full of people like that.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Kids, Yankees, People

  "Viggo Mortensen, Man of the World". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 5, 2015.

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• I praise the God of grace;
  I trust His truth and might;
  He calls me His, I call Him mine.
  My God, my joy and light

  Horatius Bonar

  Light, Joy, Grace

  Horatius Bonar (1864). “Hymns of Faith and Hope: Second Series”, p.113

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• Grace Kelly was written after these musicians were trying to mold me into what I should be. I was really angry and so I wrote the song and mailed them the lyrics. They didn't call me back, but two years later it's come full circle.

  Mika

  Song, Years, Circles

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• For there below ground sits the Dark God, strong to call men to judgment; he sees all, and writes it in his memory.

  Aeschylus

  Strong, Memories, Writing

  Aeschylus (1964). “The Libation Bearers: And The Eumenides: The Oresteia, Parts II and III.”

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• None of my friends call me L.C. That was just a high school nickname, and nobody refers to me like that anymore.

  Lauren Conrad

  School, Nicknames, My Friends

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• To my ninth decade I have totter'd on, And no soft arm bends now my steps to steady; She, who once led me where she would, is gone, So when he calls me, Death shall find me ready.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Steps, Gone, Arms

  Walter Savage Landor (1898). “Selections from the Writings of Walter Savage Landor”

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• In marriage, it's always that give and take and rebalancing that we have to do in how we can help each other. But, I have been known at times by my sons, that is the name that they call me-the Mitt stabilizer.

  Ann Romney

  Son, Names, Giving

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• I suppose you might call me the sophisticated type. I like to act with dialogue. Not with grunts.

  Cary Grant

  Might, Sophisticated, Type

  "Cary Grant is puzzled because you have No Time for Laughs" by Robert Ottaway in Picturegoer magazine, January 4, 1958.

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• If I get clear of my debts, I care not though men call me bold, glib of tongue, audacious, impudent, shameless, a fabricator of falsehoods, inventor of words, practised in lawsuits, a pettifogger, a rattle, a fox, a sharper, a knave, a dissembler, a slippery fellow, an imposter, a rogue that deserves the cat-o-nine-tails, a blackguard, a twister, a licker-up of hashes; they call all this when they meet me, if they please, I care not.

  Aristophanes

  Cat, Men, Tails

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• Lots of people call me Dave, my mum calls me David, my wife calls me Dave, I don't really notice what people call me.

  David Cameron

  Wife, People, Dave

  Interview with Richard Bacon on XFM, September 28, 2006.

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• Wheat Thins? Call me when they're Wheat THICKS! Gimme that wheat!

  Harris Wittels

  Wheat

  Twitter post from Aug 10, 2011

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• It's what I call "mental masturbation", when you engage is some pointless intellectual exercise that has no possible meaning.

  Linus Torvalds

  Exercise, Intellectual, Masturbation

  "Linus Torvalds: Geek of the Week" by Richard Morris, www.red-gate.com. July 17, 2008.

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• The frivolous can call me frivolous. I've always been most punctilious about important things. And I insist that no one knows better than I do the Holy Fathers, or the Scriptures, or the Canons of the Councils.

  C.P. Cavafy

  Father, Important, Scripture

  Constantine P. Cavafy, “A Byzantine Nobleman In Exile Composing Verses”

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• So, you could call me optimistic and hopeful and probably just a little bit naïve, but I'm coming from the space that the best way to predict the future is to get out there and just do it yourself.

  John Elkington

  Optimistic, Space, Hopeful

  "John Elkington, the 'Breakthrough Challenge' and tomorrow's bottom line". Interview with Joel Makower, www.greenbiz.com. September 3, 2014.

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• My name is Louie, but they call me Tony!

  King Louie

  Names

  Song: Live And Die In Chicago

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• All the guys in the locker room will give me a hard time and call me Robin Thicke or call me Justin Bieber.

  Chandler Parsons

  Hard Times, Nba, Giving

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• Being that I'm a tropical black man I don't get to see much snow. When I see snow I go crazy. That's why they call me Sasquatch. There's no Sasquatch found in the snow so I had to go back to my Sasquatchian roots.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Crazy, Men

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• Cause see they call me a menace; and if the shoe fits I'll wear it.

  Eminem

  Funny, Shoes, Causes

  "Renegade". Song by Eminem and Jay-Z, 2006.

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• He discusses his service in Iraq, the wounds he suffered there and he says to me in this ad, until you have the guts to call me a phony soldier to my face, stop telling lies about my service. You know, this is such a blatant use of a valiant combat veteran, lying to him about what I said, and then strapping those lies to his belt, sending him out via the media and a TV ad, to walk into as many people as he can walk into.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Lying, Stupid, Media

  "Countdown" with Keith Olbermann, www.nbcnews.com. October 4, 2007.

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• No one calls me out, I'm from LSU.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Lsu, Tigers

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• You load 16 tons, and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt. St. Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go. I owe my soul to the company store.

  Merle Travis

  Soul, Debt, Another Day

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• You have but mistook me all the while... I live by bread like you, taste grief, feel want, need friends. Conditioned thus how can you call me king?

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Grief, Needs

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