Top 1200 Curtain Call Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

I call myself a feminist. Isn't that what you call someone who fights for women's rights?

This is an impressive crowd: the Have's and Have-more's. Some people call you the elites. I call you my base.

Working on an essay versus a novel is like the difference between seeing to that curtain and seeing to New Jersey.

If you hate what you're seeing, you call it sex and violence. If you like it, you call it 'romance and adventure.'

It doesn't matter what people call you unless they call you pigeon pie and eat you up.

We owe to genius always the same debt, of lifting the curtain from the common, and showing us that divinities are sitting disguised in the seeming gang of gypsies and peddlars.

If you hate what you're seeing, you call it sex and violence. If you like it, you call it "romance and adventure."

I've never walked through the curtain with someone I wasn't trying to audition as a WrestleMania main-eventer, and I never want to.

The first call which every Christian experiences is the call to abandon the attachments of this world.

Call it a curse, or just call me blessed, if you can't handle my worst, you ain't getting my best

A novel is what you call something that won't sell if you call it poems or short stories.

I see the turning of the page, curtain rising on a new age, see the groom still waiting at the altar.

Europeans call it socialism, Americans call it welfare, and Barack Obama calls it change.

[Y]ou will understand the game behind the curtain too well not to perceive the old trick of turning every contingency into a resource for accumulating force in the government.

I waited for a long time for a call-up for Les Bleus, but that call never came.

If all you were left believing was what you were seeing, it'd be nothing but desperate. To have hope, you're going to have to imagine that there's something behind the curtain.

They had to call and call And pick the worms off me like sticky pearls.

Consider those whom you call your enemies and figure out what they should call you.

When God issues a call to us, it is always a holy call. The vocation of dying is a sacred vocation. To understand that is one of the most important lessons a Christian can ever learn. When the summons comes, we can respond in many ways. We can become angry, bitter or terrified. But if we see it as a call from God and not a threat from Satan, we are far more prepared to cope with its difficulties.

I got a call from my agent; I'm out in the boonies. They're like, 'Where you at? The Warriors are trying to call.' I'm like, 'Hold up! I'm on the lake, and I ain't got no service.' So I had to drive two miles up the road so I could get service and take the call.

I do not know its name. I call it the Way. For the lack of better words I call it great.

Quite possibly, what I call happiness may coincide with what others call the moment of imminent danger

They that are discontented under monarchy, call it tyranny; and they that are displeased with aristocracy, call it oligarchy: so also, they which find themselves grieved under a democracy, call it anarchy, which signifies the want of government; and yet I think no man believes, that want of government, is any new kind of government.

Yes, there is plenty of hard work for them in addition to that which they do when they appear, smiling and happy, when the curtain goes up. Giving a performance is the least of their worries.

When you call me European, I say yes. When you call me Arab, I say yes. When you call me black, I say yes. When you call me white, I say yes. Because I am in you and you are in me. We have to inter-be with everything in the cosmos.

Life is a play that does not allow testing. So, sing, cry, dance, laugh and live intensely, before the curtain closes and the piece ends with no applause.

The possibility seems to be that what we call styles, or what we call motifs, are actually categories in the unconscious.

The biggest moment in our business is when you walk through that curtain, and if you don't believe in yourself, the fans won't believe in you or invest in you, and they see that.

From bell to bell, from when my entrance plays and I step through that curtain, people have to wonder what's going on inside that guy's head.

I've always been interested in what passes for what we call religion, what other cultures call their spiritual life.

Why a tender curb upon the youthful burning boy? Why a little curtain of flesh on the bed of our desire?

I can drink a whole Hennessy fifth. Some call that a problem, but I call it a gift.

Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food.

What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.

Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.

I never have to grope for methods. The method is revealed at the moment I am inspired to create something new. Without God to draw aside the curtain I would be helpless.

Don't' call it a failure, call it an education. Some of us are very educated.

You can call it love, or you can call it freefall. They're pretty much the same thing.

I don't call my people fans, I call them believers, because they go above and beyond.

People call me slow. I call myself quick with the stuff I do.

I was in the Rockin' Vicars, which was the first British band to tour behind the Iron Curtain. A lot of photos were taken of us next to milk churns.

If a man says, "I'll call you," and he doesn't, he didn't forget. . . . he didn't lose your number. . . . he didn't die. He just didn't want to call you.

With Hitchcock I had little relationship. I was called to replace Bernard Herrmann, his favorite composer, in Torn Curtain, after the bitter fight between them.

It was my mother who taught me the one worthwhile thing: when they ask if you like what you see in the mirror, pretend that what they mean is what's behind you--the shower curtain, the tile, the wallpaper, whatever's there.

I love that moment just before the curtain goes up, whether I'm sitting in the audience or standing backstage. It's full of expectation. It's a thrill that's unequaled anywhere.

On the morrow the horizon was covered with clouds- a thick and impenetrable curtain between earth and sky, which unhappily extended as far as the Rocky Mountains. It was a fatality!

If you call it al-Qaida or bin Ladenism or jihadism, whatever you call it, it's proliferated.

Don't wonder whether you have a call to go. Have you had a distinct call from Christ to stay at home?

We also have a conference call feature where up to five people can talk on one Skype call.

I had a jeep made up for Michael, and he would take it on tour, and he would hide behind it, like a curtain.

Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food

The call of God does what the call of man cannot. It raises the dead.

Trapped on a planet of pain and perpetrators That you call 'Earth,' but I call 'Hell's Equator.'

So I hear they call you 'The Freak' Wow, that's quite a coincidence. They call me 'The Brain.'

As a player, it's better to wait a moment for the correct call than be let down by an incorrect call.

Each waking day is a stage dominated for good or ill, comedy, farce, or tragedy, by a dramatis personae, the 'self', and so it will be until the curtain drops.

You're going to get violated in that ring. I am going to close the curtain on the joke that is the Audley Harrison show.

All religions are branches of one big tree. It doesn't matter what you call Him just as long as you call.

What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.

Jonathan sighed. The price of being misunderstood, he thought. They call you devil or they call you god.