call quotes

You say potato and I say po-tah-to You say tomato and I say to-mah-to† Let's call the whole thing off!

- Ira originally Israel Gershowitz Gershwin
  'Let's Call theWhole Thing Off', song from the film musical Shall We Dance? (music by George Gershwin).

OnereasonItry toget peopletocall me Newt istobreak down barriers. It's a whole lot easier for someone to say, 'Newt, you've got a spot on your tie,'than it is to say 'Congressman'.

- Newt(on Leroy) Gingrich
   Attributed comment.

Consciousness, then, does not appear to itself chopped up in bits. Such words as 'chain'or 'train'do not describe it fitly as it presents itself in the first instance.It is nothing jointed; it flows. A'river'or a 'stream'are the metaphors by which it is most naturally described. In talking of it hereafter, let us call it the stream of thought, of consciousness, or of subjective life.

-William James
  The Principles of Psychology, ch.9. This is the coining of the phrase'stream of consciousness', later applied to the narrative technique used by Joyce and others.

   Life makes no absolute statement. It is all Call and Answer.

- D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence
  Kangaroo, ch.10.

I must down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide Is a wild call and a clear call that may not be denied.

-John Edward Masefield
  'Sea Fever'.

The Admiral said,'You could never call I assure you it would not do at all! She gets down from the table without saying 'please', Forgets her prayers and to cross herT's, In short, her scandalous reputation Has shocked the whole of the Hellish nation'.

- Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell
  Fa c° ade,'En Famille'.

The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silencefree of the networks of dead speech.

- Dame Freya Madeleine Stark
  Perseus in theWind.

Ah God, for a man with heart, head, hand, Like some of the simple great ones gone For ever and ever by, One still strong man in a blatant land, Whatever they call him, what care I, Aristocrat, democrat, autocratone Who can rule and dare not lie.

-Tennyson
  Maud, pt.1, sect.10, stanza 5, l.389^95.