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The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.
Tags: Lust, Themselves ✍ Author: Joseph AddisonIf you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.
Tags: Friends, Oil ✍ Author: Sade AduIf I ever woke up with a dead hooker in my hotel room, Matt would be the first person I'd call.
Tags: Dead, Room ✍ Author: Ben AffleckI'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse.
Tags: Dead, Him ✍ Author: Woody AllenIt is necessary to posit something which is necessary of itself, and has no cause of its necessity outside of itself but is the cause of necessity in other things. And all people call this thing God.
Tags: Cause, God ✍ Author: Maya AngelouHow many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.
Tags: Dog, Four ✍ Author: Abraham LincolnIf you call a tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No, calling a tail a leg don't make it a leg.
Tags: Dog, Five ✍ Author: Abraham LincolnShe was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot.
Tags: Quite, She ✍ Author: Mark TwainIt is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.
Tags: Animal, Dumb ✍ Author: Mark TwainWhat's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet.
Tags: Rose, Sweet ✍ Author: William ShakespeareI figure if I have my health, can pay the rent and I have my friends, I call it 'content.'
Tags: Friends, Health ✍ Author: Lauren BacallI read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
Tags: Education, Read ✍ Author: Tallulah BankheadWe submit to the majority because we have to. But we are not compelled to call our attitude of subjection a posture of respect.
Tags: Attitude, Respect ✍ Author: Ambrose BierceWitticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke.
Tags: Clever, Joke ✍ Author: Ambrose BierceSpring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.
Tags: Leaving, Spring ✍ Author: Ambrose BierceJust call me Mr. Cain. And in 2013, they can call me Mr. President.
Tags: President ✍ Author: Herman CainI'm not a big fan of CGI. I'm not a fan at all, unless they use it in a way that doesn't call attention to itself.
Tags: Attention, Big ✍ Author: Billy CampbellTo me, the AMC brand is great storytelling - they call it slow-burn storytelling.
Tags: Brand, Great ✍ Author: Billy CampbellMost sailing ships take what they call trainees, who pay to be part of the crew. The Picton Castle takes people who are absolutely raw recruits. But you can't just ride along. You're learning to steer the ship, navigation; you're pulling lines, keeping a lookout; in the galley you're cooking.
Tags: Learning, Takes ✍ Author: Billy CampbellAfter Versace was murdered, the first person to call me was Mandela.
Tags: After, Mandela ✍ Author: Naomi CampbellWe call first truths those we discover after all the others.
Tags: After, Others ✍ Author: Albert CamusI 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.
Tags: Care, Enjoy ✍ Author: Jim CarreyWe call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.
Tags: End, Thought ✍ Author: Gilbert K. ChestertonVisit partners pages
What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity.
Tags: May, Mean ✍ Author: Gilbert K. ChestertonIt is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Tags: Healthy, Sick ✍ Author: Gilbert K. ChestertonYou can't call any one person the devil. Because no one person has the power to be the devil.
Tags: Devil, Power ✍ Author: DMXIt is going to be changed to straight P. Diddy. You could call me P. or Diddy, or P. Diddy. I just want something fresh, man.
Tags: Changed, Fresh ✍ Author: Puff DaddyMaintain 'baseball cards' and/or 'believability matrixes' for your people. Imagine if you had baseball cards that showed all the performance stats. You could see what they did well and poorly and call on the right people to play the right positions in a very transparent way.
Tags: Baseball, Imagine ✍ Author: Salvador DaliI call it fan fatigue. I went to see Bob Dylan last year, who I think is absolutely incredible, but he suffers from his audience.
Tags: Last, Year ✍ Author: Roger DaltreySome dog I got too. We call him Egypt. Because in every room he leaves a pyramid.
Tags: Dog, Him ✍ Author: Rodney DangerfieldDon't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease.
Tags: Mindless, Overweight ✍ Author: Anthony DanielsI'm the guy to call. Look at the resume. I have kids of my own. I have dogs.
Tags: Guy, Kids ✍ Author: Jeff DanielsWhat we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us.
Tags: Happen, Luck ✍ Author: Robertson DaviesI think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.
Tags: Anybody, Himself ✍ Author: Bob DylanIf somebody dumps something noxious in my back yard, the dumper is the last one I would call on to repair the damage.
Tags: Last, Somebody ✍ Author: Sylvia EarlePrince used to call me up 3am in the morning and invite me to hear some of his new songs.
Tags: Morning, Used ✍ Author: Sheena EastonI've had moments when I've thought about somebody, picked up the phone to call them and they are on the line already, and I think that maybe there's some vibration, some connection.
Tags: Somebody, Thought ✍ Author: Clint EastwoodBefore mobile phones, I used to call my parents from a phone box and reverse the charges.
Tags: Parents, Used ✍ Author: Tamara EcclestoneYou know what, I've always been a smarty-pants, and the only thing that goes wrong now is that people know that I play a doctor on TV and so they quickly call me out on the fact that I really think I am a doctor.
Tags: Fact, Wrong ✍ Author: Lisa EdelsteinNowadays I'm more interested in what you'd call 'alternative.' Lately we've been listening to a lot of Mumford & Sons, and Jenny Owen Youngs. I'm also pretty crazy about the Kings of Convenience, a Norwegian band that's been compared to Simon and Garfunkel.
Tags: Crazy, Pretty ✍ Author: Jennifer EganI started to call myself a rational therapist in 1955; later I used the term rational emotive. Now I call myself a rational emotive behavior therapist.
Tags: Started, Used ✍ Author: Albert EllisWhat we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.
Tags: Simply, Words ✍ Author: Havelock EllisThe Jews don't like Farrakhan, so they call me Hitler. Well, that's a good name. Hitler was a very great man.
Tags: Good, Great ✍ Author: Louis FarrakhanThey call them terrorists, I call them freedom fighters.
Tags: Fighters, Freedom ✍ Author: Louis FarrakhanI hate when people call me a socialite because you have to have money to be a socialite, which I don't have.
Tags: Hate, Money ✍ Author: Sky FerreiraI got the regular call, that they were doing a Broadway musical of Hairspray, and would I come and audition. I was familiar with the movie, because at the time it came out my lover wrote for Premiere magazine, and we had to see everything.
Tags: Movie, Time ✍ Author: Harvey FiersteinSavages we call them because their manners differ from ours.
Tags: Manners, Savages ✍ Author: Benjamin FranklinI call everyone 'Darling' because I can't remember their names.
Tags: Everyone, Remember ✍ Author: Zsa Zsa GaborAfter all, from the Muslim Brotherhood's inception in Egypt in 1928, it has been a revolutionary organization committed to the imposition worldwide of a totalitarian, supremacist Islamic doctrine they call shariah.
Tags: After, Muslim ✍ Author: Frank GaffneyI don't believe there is such a thing as a moderate Islamist party. The challenge with Islamists is that they seek to impose what they call Sharia on everybody, Muslim and non-Muslim alike.
Tags: Challenge, Everybody ✍ Author: Frank GaffneyLady Gaga is my name. If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don't really know me at all.
Tags: Lady, Name ✍ Author: Lady GagaI wanted to further my education, so I went on to get a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and came back and served about ten years in the Canadian Navy as what we call a combat systems engineer.
Tags: Education, Wanted ✍ Author: Marc GarneauThe New Deal's enmity for that system of free and competitive private enterprise which we call capitalism was fundamental.
Tags: Free, System ✍ Author: Brad GarrettThe stardom thing happened and now I'm trying to make a comeback, if you want to call it that.
Tags: Happened, Trying ✍ Author: Leif GarrettYou may call me a Klansman if you will, but, potentially, every white man is a Klansman, as far as the Negro in competition with whites socially, economically and politically is concerned, and there is no use lying.
Tags: Far, May ✍ Author: Marcus GarveyYounger anthropologists have the notion that anthropology is too diverse. The number of things done under the name of anthropology is just infinite; you can do anything and call it anthropology.
Tags: Done, Name ✍ Author: Clifford GeertzMany 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.
Tags: Prove, Skin ✍ Author: Che GuevaraI had a white senator call me a rag head, and I had an African-American legislator call me a conservative with a tan.
Tags: Head, White ✍ Author: Nikki HaleyThe role of a do-gooder is not what actors call a fat part.
Tags: Fat, Role ✍ Author: Lawrence HalprinI'm my own doctor. I have a group of people who call me up on a weekly basis. I'm a 'doctor' without a license.
Tags: Doctor, Group ✍ Author: George HamiltonThanks for the information about what we call business.
Tags: Business, Thanks ✍ Author: Dashiell HammettWhat we call real estate - the solid ground to build a house on - is the broad foundation on which nearly all the guilt of this world rests.
Tags: House, Real ✍ Author: Nathaniel HawthorneI have this one little saying, when things get too heavy just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man.
Tags: Known, Saying ✍ Author: Jimi HendrixWhen things get too heavy, just call me helium, the lightest known gas to man.
Tags: Heavy, Known ✍ Author: Jimi HendrixIf you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.
Tags: Him, Lost ✍ Author: Elbert HubbardIt is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.
Tags: Forgotten, Often ✍ Author: Thomas HuxleyI know that you are part of me and I am part of you because we are all aspects of the same infinite consciousness that we call God and Creation.
Tags: Creation, God ✍ Author: David IckeWe are reflections of one another, therefore I know that you are part of me and I am part of you because we are all projections of the universal principles of creation/destruction polarities of the same infinite consciousness that we call God.
Tags: Another, God ✍ Author: David IckeHow could they call him wacko? He's sold more records than anybody in history.
Tags: Him, History ✍ Author: Joseph JacksonI believe the only time when we can call for intervention is when there is an ongoing genocide.
Tags: Genocide, Time ✍ Author: Bianca JaggerI don't know how tall I am or how much I weigh. Because I don't want anybody to know my identity. I'm like a superhero. Call me Basketball Man.
Tags: Anybody, Basketball ✍ Author: LeBron JamesWhat every genuine philosopher (every genuine man, in fact) craves most is praise although the philosophers generally call it recognition!
Tags: Fact, Praise ✍ Author: William JamesOur normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.
Tags: Lie, Special ✍ Author: William JamesIt is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster' every original inexhaustible beauty.
Tags: Beauty, Original ✍ Author: Alfred JarryMy songs are really never titled. Sometimes I call it one thing. then I change it.
Tags: Change, Sometimes ✍ Author: Wyclef JeanThey call upon us to supply American boys to do the job that Asian boys should do.
Tags: American, Job ✍ Author: Lyndon B. JohnsonI went to Catholic school in and out. I'm what you call a recovering Catholic. I have many major issues with the church.
Tags: Church, School ✍ Author: Jon Bon JoviIn these momentous hours of our history we call on every Hungarian worker who is led by devotion to the people and the country to join our Party, the name of which is the Hungarian Socialist Workers Party.
Tags: Country, History ✍ Author: Janos KadarIf there's something that you hear on TV about me, just call me and I'll tell you if it's true.
Tags: Tell, True ✍ Author: Kato KaelinI wouldn't call myself anti-nuclear.
✍ Author: Naoto KanWhen the world has 1,000, 2,000, 3,000 nuclear plants, can we call that a safe world? I think we need to properly have this debate.
Tags: Nuclear, Safe ✍ Author: Naoto KanI had a traditional interview based on a phone call from an agent. He says there's a show and they would like to see you and its called Dallas. With very little knowledge I go over to this meeting at Warner Brothers.
Tags: Knowledge, Show ✍ Author: Steve KanalyWhat is the cruelest thing you can do to someone who is trying to concentrate? Call their name.
Tags: Someone, Trying ✍ Author: Bela KarolyiI would never call a neighbor an enemy. But I would request the neighbor to be a good neighbor, to see that the neighbor's interest is a stable prosperous neighbor, a neighbor that is doing well.
Tags: Enemy, Good ✍ Author: Vincent KartheiserI never call it an insurgency. I call it terrorism.
Tags: Insurgency, Terrorism ✍ Author: Vincent KartheiserI was not what you'd call a first-class actor, but I did all right.
Tags: Actor ✍ Author: Elia KazanLent is a time to renew wherever we are in that process that I call the divine therapy. It's a time to look what our instinctual needs are, look at what the dynamics of our unconscious are.
Tags: Process, Time ✍ Author: Thomas KeatingIt's pretty overwhelming to know that people can call up Moviefone and find out where it's playing.
Tags: Playing, Pretty ✍ Author: Monica KeenaWe 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.
Tags: Give, Society ✍ Author: Neil LaButeThey call me before they go into production, when they have a prototype, and they call legitimate saxophonists, too. As opposed to the other kind.
Tags: Legitimate, Production ✍ Author: Steve Lacy