Calls

Famous quotes containing the word calls:

    We take a fancy to something: and scarcely have we thoroughly taken a fancy to it when that tyrant in us calls out: “Give me that in sacrifice”—and we give it.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)

    The cigar-box which the European calls a “lift” needs but to be compared with our elevators to be appreciated. The lift stops to reflect between floors. That is all right in a hearse, but not in elevators. The American elevator acts like the man’s patent purge—it works
    Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

    you who baited your hook with wide-awake dreams,
    and calls and letters and once a luncheon,
    and twice a reading by me for you.
    But I wouldn’t!
    Anne Sexton (1928–1974)