Calling

Famous quotes containing the word calling:

“Watching a woman make Russian pancakes, you might think that she was calling on the spirits or extracting from the batter the philosopher’s stone.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)

““Your strength, that is so lofty and fierce and kind,
It might call up a new age, calling to mind
The queens that were imagined long ago,
Is but half yours....””
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous and shallow. Yet it was the schoolboy who said “Faith is believing what you know ain’t so.””
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)