Calling Quotes

Many Republicans have always reminded me of professional W.W.F. wrestlers. They come into the ring all pumped up and acting like they're invincible and that they're going to destroy their opponent. Then they get hit once and fall down and roll around in agony and suddenly seem immobilized by pain, calling for the ref to intervene.
Paul Feig

Pain, Down, Around

Where there seems to be a difference between guys being nuts and women being nuts is that guys are much more open in calling each other on stuff; lots of insults and dirty names. Whereas women will talk frankly and honesty, but there also seems to be more passive aggressiveness.
Paul Feig

Women, Honesty, Talk

My mom passed away at 41 from diabetes. And I'm 42, thank you. I didn't want to do that to my son. So any time I was at the gym, that thing that helped me do that last squat was my son calling some other woman mommy. And that would just give me that extra oomph to do that last squat. I want to be around for him.
Sherri Shepherd

Time, Mom, Woman

When the second record came out, they started calling it The Band. I voted to call it The Crackers. I'm no fool.
Levon Helm

Fool, Started, Second

Every night, half an hour before curtain up, the bells of St. Malachy's, the Actors' Chapel on New York's 49th Street, peal the tune of 'There's No Business Like Show Business.' If you walk the streets of the theatre district before a show and see the vast, enthusiastic lines it sounds like a calling: there is certainly no place like Broadway.
Dan Stevens

Business, Night, Before

John legend is a nickname that somebody started calling me a while ago and part of it is 'cos I sound like an old man when I sing.
John Legend

Old, While, Started

John Legend is a nickname that some friends started calling me, and it kind of grew into my stage name.
John Legend

Friends, Started, Name

Long before 'American Idol', people used to call me a diva. And I be like, 'Hold on, are you calling me something else on the sly? You gonna call me a diva, call me a good diva.'
Jennifer Hudson

Good, Long, Before

For me, something will come in my head and I'll either end up calling my cell phone to record it, or I'll just pick my guitar up and see what comes out. Sometimes it sucks, sometimes it doesn't. So there's really no set method behind it.
Chris Daughtry

End, Guitar, Sometimes

At my age the only problem is with remembering names. When I call everyone darling, it has damn all to do with passionately adoring them, but I know I'm safe calling them that. Although, of course, I adore them too.
Richard Attenborough

Age, Problem, Everyone

When you've got somebody who's a flaming liberal like Bill Maher calling you out, something's wrong.
Dave Mustaine

Wrong, Somebody, Liberal

I was the one who was always calling people.
Nancy Reagan

Russia needs a strong state power and must have it. But I am not calling for totalitarianism.
Vladimir Putin

Power, Strong, State

I am not in this business as a calling. I don't do what I do to right any wrongs.
Morley Safer

Business, Wrongs

People have the right to call themselves whatever they like. That doesn't bother me. It's other people doing the calling that bothers me.
Octavia Butler

Whatever, Themselves, Call

I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Books, United, Works

I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels.
Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Books, Novels, Avoided

The first time I walked on a stage I knew that was what I was created to do. I knew that there was a calling and a sense of purpose in my life that gave me fulfillment and a sense of destiny.
T. D. Jakes

Life, Time, Destiny

I've also gotten to play in front of a million people in Central Park when there was a grass roots movement calling for nuclear disarmament - it was about 1982 - they called it Peace Sunday.
Jackson Browne

Peace, Sunday, Play

If your movies don't perform, they just stop calling you.
Matt Damon

Movies, Stop, Perform

At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.
Walter Pater

Experience, Reality, Action

I'd rather call myself a mischief-maker, an imp, rather than a satirist. Satirist sounds so self important. Plus no one is calling himself an imp right now. It makes me feel special.
Mo Rocca

Important, Self, Special

A job is something we do to get a paycheck and pay our bills. Jobs are legitimate, at times, but work is why we are here in the universe. Work and calling often go together.
Matthew Fox

Work, Job, Together

I am a woman with a calling for social struggle and public service.
Michelle Bachelet

Struggle, Woman, Service

Why do you have to break up with her? Be a man. Just stop calling.
Matt LeBlanc

The trajectory started when I was on the roof of our house looking out at a swamp when I was 19. I had written for several years, starting at about 15, but that day on the roof I took my vows and acknowledged my calling.
Jim Harrison

Looking, Started, House

It's part of the calling to at least do a few songs in the show that give people some hope. There's so much hurt in this world and... music is such a great healing balm and a great way to forget your troubles.
Ricky Skaggs

Music, Great, Hope

I wasn't a smart kid and I still don't think I'm too smart when it comes to book smart, but I was very good with what I knew and with my craft and I think that was my calling in life. But even today I never went to college.
Criss Angel

Life, Good, Today

I think a book is your calling card, your business card.
Kevin O'Leary

Business, Book, Card

I really believe that what I do as an actress is my God-given talent. This is my calling, not my career.
Angela Bassett

Career, Talent, Actress

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