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The Internet is the most important single development in the history of human communication since the invention of call waiting.
People do dismiss ambient music, don't they? They call it 'easy listening,' as if to suggest that it should be hard to listen to.
I call it fan fatigue. I went to see Bob Dylan last year, who I think is absolutely incredible, but he suffers from his audience.
I can get a call at 2 A.M., and the person on the other end is like: 'Sorry, did I wake you?' and I'm like: 'No, I'm wide awake.'
We live in a disposable society. It's easier to throw things out than to fix them. We even give it a name - we call it recycling.
Kids have what I call a built-in hypocrisy antenna that comes up and blocks out what you're saying when you're being a hypocrite.
What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.
Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.
One of the great lessons the fall of the leaf teaches, is this: do your work well and then be ready to depart when God shall call.
If you are lucky enough to have a parent or two alive on this planet, call them. Don't text; don't e-mail. Call them on the phone.
People call me a perfectionist, but I'm not. I'm a rightist. I do something until it's right, and then I move on to the next thing.
If someone remembers me as a coach, they still call me 'Coach,' but if they know me for the video game, they just call me 'Madden.'
When the whistle blew and the call stretched thin across the night, one had to believe that any journey could be sweet to the soul.
The pulse of the People is still so high as to call for more bleeding, before quinine can be administered with any hope of benefit.
Call me tacky, but I love the union of sweet and sour, even in some now-unloved Oriental dishes incorporating pineapple and ketchup.
We're already in a trade war with China. The problem is we've not been fighting back. Trump, through tariffs, wants to call a truce.
Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
We call a child's mind 'small' simply by habit; perhaps it is larger than ours is, for it can take in almost anything without effort.
When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.
Sometimes, I knew generally what I was going to do, but I've never written anything down. Call it a sixth sense: the lines just come.
A century ago, petroleum - what we call oil - was just an obscure commodity; today it is almost as vital to human existence as water.
I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.
I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.
The worst way of flying, I think, is standby. It never works. That's why they call it standby. You end up standing there going, 'Bye!'
Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?
Many will call me an adventurer, and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
Those who devote their lives to serving our country, children, and neighborhoods are giving back. They have answered the call to serve.
I have a song called 'Young Voorhees,' because I like to call myself the new Jason Voorhees, and it samples 'Courage the Cowardly Dog.'
I'm the fifth of six kids, and we're quite an eclectic family. People call us the 'Royal Tenenbaums,' because we're that kind of wonky.
Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
I feel like I see more and more Neapolitan style, that I call 'fancy pizza' - that's not my cup of tea; I think it all tastes the same.
We want to do sweaters for dogs and call it 'Bark Jacobs.' If it works, great. If it doesn't, we'll drop it and do something different.
When you call upon a Thoroughbred, he gives you all the speed, strength of heart and sinew in him. When you call on a jackass, he kicks.
Let us rise to the call of freedom-loving blood that is in us, and send our answer to the tyranny that clanks its chains upon the South.
Tori's my legal name. My niece and nephews, they all call me Aunt Ellen, because I went by my middle name years ago, before I turned 18.
One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad.
When I did 'The Great Escape,' I kept thinking, 'If they were making a movie of my life, that's what they'd call it - the great escape.'
Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.
Superstitions actually played a big role in my life. I wouldn't even go on a casting call if I had a hunch that it was an 'unlucky' day.
Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.
Why don't we call on the credit card companies to be accountable? They need to be held accountable for their predatory lending practices.
Don't let anyone call you a minority if you're black or Hispanic or belong to some other ethnic group. You're not less than anybody else.
My whole thing is to inspire, to better people, to better myself forever in this thing that we call rap, this thing that we call hip hop.
If evil is inevitable, how are the wicked accountable? Nay, why do we call men wicked at all? Evil is inevitable, but is also remediable.
Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time.
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.
I don't care if people think I am an overactor, as long as they enjoy what I do. People who think that would call Van Gogh an overpainter.