Quotations
Quotes:
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
View quotes by George Bernard Shaw
Yesterday, the president met with a group he calls the coalition of the willing. Or, as the rest of the world calls them, Britain and Spain.
View quotes by Jon Stewart
If I pop everyone who calls me a diva then I'm going to spend the rest of my life in prison.
View quotes by Chaka Khan
My boyfriend calls me 'princess', but I think of myself more along the lines of 'monkey' and 'retard'.
View quotes by Alicia Silverstone
On fellow judge Simon Cowell: "Simon is very demonstrative, very old-school music biz. He calls me darling but he is definitely not gay."
View quotes by Neil Fox
First witch: When shall we three meet again,
Second witch: In thunder, lightning, or in rain?
When the hurly-burly's done,
When the battle's lost and won.
Third witch: That will be ere the set of sun.
First witch: Where the place?
Second witch: Upon the heath.
Third witch: There to meet with Macbeth.
First witch: I come, Greymalkin!
Second witch: Paddock calls.
Third witch: Anon!
All: Fair is foul, and foul is fair:
Hover through the fog and filthy air.
(Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 1)
View quotes by William Shakespeare
Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself... And how can we generate this imponderable quality most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself.
View quotes by Virginia Woolf
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
View quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson
The ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts - the automatic elevator, the escalator, the cafeteria - are depriving us of volition and moral and physical energy.
View quotes by Edward Dahlberg
And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it.
View quotes by John Donne
All endeavour calls for the ability to tramp the last mile, shape the last plan, endure the last hours toil. The fight to the finish spirit is the one... characteristic we must possess if we are to face the future as finishers.
View quotes by Henry David Thoreau
The phone company handles 84 billion calls a year, everything from kings, queens, and presidents to the scum of the earth.
View quotes by Lily Tomlin
I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal. The shallowest people on the ridge of the earth.
View quotes by W B Yeats
One of the few things in dance to match the Royal Ballet's curtain calls is the Royal Ballet's dancing.
View quotes by Clive Barnes
If Mr Selwyn calls again, show him up. If I am alive I shall be delighted to see him, and if I am dead he would like to see me. [Last words]
View quotes by Henry Fox
What a man calls his 'conscience' is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.
View quotes by Helen Rowland
For three days after death, hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.
View quotes by Johnny Carson
I hate doing this. [on photo calls]
View quotes by Prince Charles
I didn't understand why he wasn't returning my calls [when her parents split]
View quotes by Nicole Richie
I hold he loves me best that calls me Tom
View quotes by Thomas Heywood
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Proverbs:
If Fortune Calls, Offer Him A Seat
He Who Pays The Piper Calls The Tune
The Pot Calls The Kettle Black
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