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8011 Called quotes by 4669 unique authors

Thing, body, matter, are nothing apart from the combinations of the elements, - the colours, sounds, and so forth - nothing apart from their so-called… — Ernst Mach
I spent my first two years at a small all-male college in Virginia called Hampden-Sydney. That was like going to college 120 years ago. The… — Stephen Colbert
I remember my first friend who got sick. It was 1981, and the disease was called the gay cancer. I don't think the word 'AIDS'… — Ellen Barkin
I'm often called obsessive, but I don't think I am any more than anyone else. — Nicholson Baker
In 1776, at the point of severance, except for an infusion of words from east coast Indian languages, the English language of North America was… — Robert Burchfield
I was born in and worked in a period that could be called enviable. — Tony Curtis
The rise of the dramas in the thirteenth century, and the rise of the great novels in a later period, together with their frank glorification… — Hu Shih
I love to play for audiences that are simply made of people rather than so-called special people. — John Astin
It's funny, because 'Arrested Development' is tied to Andy Richter in a few different ways. For me personally, after I did Andy Richter, one of… — Andy Richter
When I was 5, my mother threw a party, and a friend and I wrote and performed a play called The Dutch Doll. — Mira Sorvino
I think being gay and gay people are the most wonderful things in the world. I wish all of us could have the power and… — Larry Kramer
Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, but I realized it was very useful. — Larry Kramer
The habit of breaking up one's colour to make it brilliant dates from further back than Impressionism - Couture advocates it in a little book… — John Singer Sargent
The goals you set for yourself and the strategies you choose become your blueprint or plan. Strategies are like recipes: choose the right ingredients, mix… — Charles J. Givens
We already have a sabbatical system. It's called opposition, and I've had enough of it. — Nigel Lawson
Interestingly, human irrationality is a hot topic in economics at the moment. Behavioural economics it's called, on the cusp of economics and psychology. — Evan Davis
I'd rather be called King than other things I've been called. — Richard Petty
My opponent called me a cream puff. Well, I rushed out and got the baker's union to endorse me. — Clay Pell
At 4, I joined a summer rec team called the Sugar Bears. — Summer Sanders
I write with a Uni-Ball Onyx Micropoint on nine-by-seven bound notebooks made by a Canadian company called Blueline. After I do a few drafts, I… — Billy Collins
The Opposition aren't really the Opposition. They're just called the Opposition. But in fact they are the Opposition in exile. The Civil Service are the… — Antony Jay
There is only one thing I respect in so-called Broadway actors... and that is their competitive sense. — Elia Kazan
I could play it safe by recording songs that are familiar, but am I expanding myself as an artist by doing covers? It's a catch-22.… — Donny Osmond
Television watching should more properly be called television staring; it engages eye and ear simultaneously in a relentless and persistent way and leaves no room… — Witold Rybczynski
It was a tough year for me, '89, losing two Slam finals and losing another five finals. It wasn't until I won the Masters, or… — Stefan Edberg

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