Top 1200 Calling Someone Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

The minute 'The Osbourne' thing came out, everybody started calling us wanting to do something with the family and we said, 'No, no, no.'

I was shot at for being a Tamil in Sri Lanka, and then, everyone was calling me a Paki in London, and I'm not even Pakistani.

Allen's [Gisberg] loyalty to his friends was extraordinary. And as he was dying he was calling people: "What can I do for you before I die? Do you need money? What can I do?".

If rock criticism is to be a political calling, which has always been my angle, that's obviously not because it's a fountainhead of protest songs.

In Australia, everyone gets a nickname and people started calling me "Izzy" and I hated it so I just adopted Bella.

I think you have to be careful about not hurting someone. The last thing I'd want to do is make a fool of someone, unless they saw the humor in it.

People from New York have been calling, to see if I'm still alive. When I answer the phone, you can hear the disappointment in their voice.

'Gods of Wheat Street' has been described as an Aboriginal 'Neighbours' or 'Home and Away.' But on set, we were calling it 'Black to the Rafters.'

My grandma once told my mama, 'The kid's walking crazy around the cornfield, talking to himself.' I was calling ballgames.

It's weird to have people just calling me Prince Charming in the street. It's a lot of pressure to walk around sometimes.

Four!" I call out. Why am I calling a number? Oh yes. Because that's his name. — Tris.

The '80s were the worst period. You had these horrible pop bands growing their hair and calling themselves metal.

People always make the mistake of calling an idea small or stupid because they don't understand how it's going to evolve.

I think by the time I finished college I was calling myself a professional because I was, you know. I was making a living playing music.

Western intellectual Islamologists have totally failed in their duties as intellectuals. They have betrayed their calling by abandoning their critical faculties when it comes to Islam.

I'm prepared. I have a gun and I know how to shoot, and whoever comes calling without an invitation will get it in the rear end.

Here in Connecticut, we continue to take the necessary steps to save lives and protect loved ones and we are calling on all elected officials to do the same.

I will continue to speak in defense of freedom until the day I die. It's just that simple. It's not even a choice. It's a calling.

I think there's an opportunity hopefully for religion to be not so much used as a cudgel but invoked as a way of calling us to higher values.

What was it up there in the song that seemed to be calling her back inside? What would happen now in the dim, incalculable hours?

Calling gender violence a women's issue is part of the problem. It gives a lot of men an excuse not to pay attention.

He was calling it an atonic seizure because, even if he didn't know why it had happened, it was important to give it a cool name.

A book's alright when the weather's foul and there's nothing else to do, but why sit and read when the wind is calling your name?

I remember there was someone. Someone to love. Someone to hate. And I was something. Something special. And proud of it. For a time. Then they turned on me. He turned on me. I remember . . . dying.

Cold calling is about developing social skills and getting used to rejection. We are constantly selling something to somebody.

Before you ignore another homeless person on the street, just remember that that could be someone's father or someone's mother and they have a story.

I think of fiction as the highest calling. I'm kind of addicted to it. It's the thing that has gotten me through all the hard points in my life.

Most of the jobs I've gotten are from people calling me. I don't actively solicit a lot of work like that, but maybe I should.

They will stop calling brides beautiful after today—you have simply set the standard too high,' he said.

I introduced H.Res 430, a congressional resolution calling upon the president to declare a National Day of Prayer for Law Enforcement.

'Touched by an Angel' started my calling to be the messenger, and on a weekly basis, I was able to deliver the message of God's love to the world.

The artist in his calling of interpreter creates because he must. He is so much of a voice that, for him, silence is like death

Life is a great and noble calling, not a mean and grovelling thing to be shuffled through as best as we can but a lofty and exalted destiny.

In retrospect, of course I regret calling them (Charlton fans) morons. Imbeciles would have been more appropriate.

Calling a young artist 'great' these days can give one the heebie-jeebies: The word has been denatured in the past decade.

To look for a job before looking deeply inward is likely to short-circuit the process of finding your calling.

I think when I left WWE, Vince blocked my phone number so he never wants me calling him again.

Teaching is a calling too. And I've always thought that teachers in their way are holy - angels leading their flocks out of the darkness.

I play Irish popular music, yeah? Calling it folk is like putting it in a box. It's a living tradition, you know?

Everybody else is calling this 'Reggie's Team' and that's fine with me. It's just another challenge I have to face, and I look forward to it.

Husbands and wives should understand that their first calling-from which they will never be released-is to one another and THEN to their children.

You can make kids and fans happy without calling them on the court in the last three minutes of the NBA Finals.

There's nothing new about the government protecting corporations and calling it the freeing of the world or bringing democracy to bereft nations.

For us, someone who is willing to step forward and help is much more courageous than someone who is merely fulfilling the role.

Father was afraid of laughter and joy. He was particularly afraid of ridicule. He was afraid that someone would say that humans are descended from apes. Or that the earth is much older than four thousand years. Or that someone would ask where Noah go his polar bears from. Or that someone would swear. Father was terrified.

My style also has a lot to do with theater because often I'm imagining I'm a character who is wandering by a wall and leaves a mark. Then I'm someone else, who 10 days later leaves another mark. Someone was angry and did this, and then someone came and painted over it, and then the sun bleached it out and the weather exposed it again.

The Party of the Regions has won a convincing victory. We are ready to undertake responsibility for forming the Cabinet and we are calling on everyone to join us.

It's a terrible thing being a patriarch. I don't even have a gray beard. But people keep calling me up for advice.

He wants all or nothing. The thought of a person calling himself a 'Christian' without being a devoted follower of Christ is absurd.

So when you consider the archetypal, historical, and cultural background of whatever you do, it gives you a sense that your occupation can be a calling and not just a job.

If my 20s were a time when the way I looked was my calling card, then it feels as though my 60s will be a reinvention.

There is no higher calling or greater privilege known to man than being involved in helping fulfill the Great Commission.

Sex appeal is in the workplace every day of the week. I'm not saying that's the only calling card, but it's a whole crayon box.

There are so many things calling you toward that computer or TV. You forget, we're a family. We're all supposed to spend time together and talk.

Some batters, and good ones too, scoff at the whole theory of place hitting, calling it a myth. They are wrong, however.

You can love someone but not want to keep a gift from that person. It's okay to pass an item along to someone who will appreciate it more.

God, what is it like to be You and hear all those people all the time everywhere, begging, imploring, calling out for anything and anyone?

Let's just say that I think any person who aspires, presumes, or feels the calling to be an artist has a built-in sense of duty.

My brain is here for the picking, and a lot of people are calling me to see what I think about their business, and I'm brutally honest with them.

I’ve been calling for more troops for over two years, along with John McCain and others subsequent to my saying that.