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?)...

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.

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,

Chaim Weizmann

Einstein ... always spoke to me of Rutherford in the highest terms, calling him a second Newton.

Charles Simeon

Our calling is not primarily to be holy women, but to work for God and for others with Him.

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

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.

Asa Gray

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

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.

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.

Abraham Lincoln

Calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg.

Sam Altman

I suppose if I didn't have Loopt, I'd have to, I don't know, pick up the phone and just start calling people, a lot more texting and certainly more Googling.

We're not calling this a sequel. We're calling it the next installment.

We're not calling this a drowning. The investigation will continue and we're awaiting autopsy results to determine how the child died.

We're not calling the people out as long as we see that Elian's case remains in the courts and the government is not moving to suddenly take Elian back to Cuba.

We're not calling it a ripple effect; we're calling it a reverberating effect.

In law, one's sense of calling or vocation will lead one to be interested in certain dimensions of Constitutional law.