Had we a privilege of calling up by the power of memory only such passages as were pleasing, unmixed with such as were disagreeable, we might then excite at pleasure an ideal happiness, perhaps more poignant than actual sensation.
Playwriting isn't a calling so much as it is a hazing process.
Live as with God; and, whatever be your calling, pray for the gift that will perfectly qualify you in it.
I never was able to do karate. That's calling me a good actor. I act like I can do anything.
It's kind of glorious to say, "Oh man, this guy had his career cut short. " I'm not calling myself Sandy Koufax by any means. I'm not in that caliber at all, but sometimes it has to end different.
I get nervous calling myself an artist. I feel I'm more like an interpreter or a violinist, you know.
The secular humanist, although he would never dream of committing the social faux pas of calling a black man a negro, feels perfectly free to castigate Christians and their leaders in any way he likes.
The Internet and Twitter and all these things are very powerful, but it also means sometimes that instead of having a dialogue we just start calling folks - calling each other names. And that's true on the left or the right.
Money or no money, acting is my calling
I thought, my love is so good, why isn't it calling the same thing back.
I think that's why I've lasted this long because I love everything I make fun of! I make fun of myself first! I mean, I started my career by calling my films "trash" - the local critics used to complain that I beat the critic to the typewriter.
Planet Lucy Press? I incorporated myself to deal with publishing and was calling myself Big Bang Incorporated, which of course has to do with the Big Bang at the beginning of creation.
Your career is what you're paid for. Your calling is what you're made for.
I will follow my logic, no matter where it goes, after it has consulted with my heart. If you ever come to a conclusion without calling the heart in, you will come to a bad conclusion.
The test of a first-rate work, and a test of your sincerity in calling it a first-rate work, is that you finish it.
I can't give my phone number out. My phone number would be everywhere - everybody and their mom would be calling me.
If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.
This is Morbidia," said Vlad. "Although she's been calling herself Tracy lately, to be cool.
You find them [leftists] everywhere now. They have moved in and corrupted everything, and they've done it by intimidating anybody who might oppose them. They succeed in getting away with calling people racists.
John the Baptist was supposed to point the way to the Christ. He was just the voice, not the Messiah. So everybodys calling has dignity to it and God seems to know better than we do what is in us that needs to be called forth.