#calling

There's nothing in the world more silent than the telephone the morning after everybody pans your play. It won't ring from room service; your mother won't be calling you. If the phone has not rung by 8 in the morning, you're dead. ↗

— David Mamet

#calling #dead #everybody #more #morning

We're not running the ball again until we get ahead. Shula was calling the plays, but I told them, 'I don't care what he calls. We're throwing every pass from now until we get the lead.' To Shula's credit, he always gave me that option. ↗

— Dan Marino

#ahead #always #ball #calling #calls

When I first ran for public office, it was with the passion and idealism of a young man who believed that government could help make our lives better, that public service was a calling and that citizenship demanded responsibilities. There was a greater good. ↗

— James McGreevey

#better #calling #citizenship #could #demanded

I tend to discourage people from calling me 'Sir Ian,' because I don't like being separated out from the rest of the population. Of course, it can be useful if you're writing an official letter, like trying to get a visa or something passed through Parliament. They're impressed by these things. ↗

— Ian Mckellen

#being #calling #course #discourage #get

The new strategy is to teach intelligent design without calling it intelligent design. ↗

— Kenneth R. Miller

#design #intelligent #new #strategy #teach

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

— Marianne Moore

#category #except #i #i see #no reason

The mountains are calling and I must go. ↗

— John Muir

#calling #go #i #mountains #must

When I became CEO of Xerox 10 years ago, the company's situation was dire. Debt was mounting, the stock sinking and bankers were calling. People urged me to declare bankruptcy, but I felt personally responsible for tens of thousands of employees. ↗

— Anne M. Mulcahy

#bankers #bankruptcy #became #calling #ceo

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

— Dave Mustaine

#calling #flaming #got #liberal #like

But so far, you know who's been violating the nuclear nonproliferation pact day and night? Those who signed it. Iran, Iraq, Libya and Iran violates it while calling for Israel's destruction and racing to develop atomic weapons to that end. ↗

— Benjamin Netanyahu

#been #calling #day #destruction #develop