If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
Albert Einstein

I don't care whether you're driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you're headed for a cliff, you have to change direction. That's what the American people called for in November, and that's what we intend to deliver.
Barack Obama

It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar.
Winston Churchill

I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away.
George Carlin

I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.
Mohandas Gandhi

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.
George Washington

I never called my work an 'art' It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.
Walt Disney

If the other fellow sells cheaper than you, it is called dumping. 'Course, if you sell cheaper than him, that's mass production.
Will Rogers

Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.
William Shakespeare

My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy.
William Shakespeare

Make no mistake about it! There is an organized movement against organized labor and it's called the Bush Administration.
Edward Kennedy

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.
Aristotle

To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit and read it are old women over their tea.
Henry David Thoreau

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.
Henry David Thoreau

My sister wanted to be an actress, but she never made it. She does live in a trailer. She got halfway. She's an actress, she just never gets called to the set.
Mitch Hedberg

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
Oscar Wilde

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Oscar Wilde

Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'
Edgar Allan Poe