Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Bohjalian

The honest answer is more complex. On some level I was sent. Or inspired. Or called. But my calling, such as it was, wasn't a single booming invitation from above (really, is it ever?)...

We know what he would expect us to do, and it was just a matter of me calling the plays instead of him.

Roberto Benigni

When I was a little boy, I was reading Dante and I was saying to myself 'Bravo, Dante, Bravo.' It's so beautiful, the music, the sound, the meaning. I felt like calling him by phone, like a friend.

David Sedaris

I felt uncomfortable calling myself a writer until I started with 'The New Yorker,' and then I was like, 'Okay, now you can call yourself that.

Louis Stokes

There have been a couple of instances prior to now where members of the House have filed resolutions calling for release of the sealed files which were developed during the course of our committee's investigation.

Michael Moriarty

Film is something that came later into my life. I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation.

Marianne Moore

I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.

The people who use (the vouchers) really like them, and some of them start calling us around now wondering when they're going to start giving them out. They love taking their kids and getting fresh fruits and vegetables.

David Rosenberg

The only reason I'm calling for a rate hike is because that's what they told us they are going to do.

Jack Germond

Unsurprisingly, the poll-takers don't talk a lot in public about the ignorance of the electorate on political and public policy matters. And the politicians are not going to disclose the, let's say, limited body of knowledge in their constituencies. You don't get elected calling your voters airheads.

Jaret Wright

We're in a race to get to the playoffs, so I'll do everything I can to get back out there, ... There's no calling in sick now. You've got to get out there.

We always have Latin teachers calling about it, but we can't draw any conclusions.

Asa Gray

I am sufficiently convinced already that the members of a profession know their own calling better than anyone else can know it.

Billy Ray Cyrus

Each person has their own calling on this Earth.

Mike Pence

We have no higher stewardship, no higher calling than to come onto this floor and into this chamber and make the tough decisions.

Gary Condit

When folks start calling my dad a murderer or suggesting my mom and dad had something to do with the disappearance, that's too much, too far, unfair and it's wrong,

We're standing in unity with the national movement. But we're not actually calling for everyone to miss work or not go to school.

What a great discrepancy there is between men and the results they achieve! It is due to the difference in their power of calling together all the rays of their ability, and concentrating them upon one point

(The referees) have been calling (penalties) and sticking to them. They've been calling them when it's 5-on-4 and they've been calling it late in game and in overtime. It's made for a better game.

We found out about the grant really late. For three weeks, I spent every spare minute of my time calling people. Everybody came on board.

Usually, by the end of October all the chestnut growers start calling each other looking for chestnuts because we're all sold out.

Sergio Garcia

We're getting a lot of local citizens from Jacksonville calling in to get reservations.

We're better off now than we were this time yesterday but as long as the winds are playing havoc we aren't even calling it contained.

William Shakespeare

Sometimes when we are labeled, when we are branded our brand becomes our calling.

We're real excited to have the home court advantage, and that is something that will really be in our favor. We hope to have a really good crowd out there, calling the Hogs, getting it going, and seeing what this team can do.

Gregg Williams

We knew what the play was. We had guys calling out the play at the line.

The protocol is they should be calling us because they're the home team. Football is new to Indianapolis, so maybe they don't understand the protocols of the NFL as much as they understand basketball.

When it was first installed, you could hear the calling of long-tailed ducks in the background.

Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my countrymen comes natural to me; and in the open field of invention I am not without hopes of giving them pleasure.

When he is out there on the court he makes everyone around him better. He is consummate point guard in that way. A lot of it is the intangibles, like calling the right sets, getting guys in the right position and creating.

When I had her as a teacher all of the kids in her class ended up calling her mom. She had this way of instilling the desire to learn in her students.

We have a signed contract. We're prohibited from picketing or calling a boycott.

We have a once-in-a- generation opportunity to do this. We're calling on today's students to make their contribution to the future of this university.