Quotes of: Call Keyword

I feel self-conscious calling my cat fat in front of a fat person, considering I’m skinny and inconsiderate.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

The one single use of things which we call our own is that they might be his who hath need of them.

Tom Brown's Schooldays

A stick won’t stick to a wall, so why is it called a stick? Likewise, why aren’t love and ghost the same word? Both are dead and invisible.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

She realized with a sort of depressed relief that she had no close friend to call, to tell them not to worry about her.

Tail Spin

Her name was Janice, but I called her Jan because she was born in December—just like Chris T.


This Book is Not FOR SALE

He has one of the worst personalities. Actually, you can’t call it a personality, since he acts more like an animal than a person.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

It was a dumb mistake, sleeping with her, and I learned from the experience. Still, I’d gladly make the same mistake tonight if she calls.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

You make me sick. I think I’ll have to call out of work on your account. Or have that account closed.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

It’s my birthday, who could be calling me? Probably my clone, wondering why he hasn’t been born yet.

This Book Has No Title

There should be a language called Nail, so I could more naturally say, “My nail is a bit rusty.

This Book Has No Title

Here in Jacksonville there’s a road called Commonwealth Blvd., and today as I was driving on it, I realized how socialist the name sounds.

This Book Has No Title

That was Hunter,' said Quinn as his father's footsteps faded away. 'I figured. Since he said to call him Hunter and everything.

And Then Everything Unraveled

Some girls had mothers who never called them beautiful but swore their love up and down. It's all the same, really. All bullshit.

Unteachable

The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.

Vanity Fair

Let us subdue the ravages of the baser-self, and aspire to the higher calling of exalting joy through compassion, for that is the one true purpose of humanity.

Voice of Reason

Little choices determine habit; Habit carves and molds character Which makes the big decisions.

A Woman's High Calling

You are no longer a weak, susceptible human. You are Shaede, deadly and cunning. Never bow to that mortal weakness again.

When Shadows Call

Or they'll talk about fear, which we used to call politics- job politics, social politics, government politics

Welcome to the Monkey House

What is most of our boasted so-called knowledge but a conceit that we know something, which robs us of the advantage of our actual ignorance?

Walking

She's called the secretary, but as far as I can tell she basically runs the school.

When You Reach Me

Where I'm from, we believe in all sorts of things that aren't true... we call it history.

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West