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 sacrificeand we give it.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (18441900)
“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 mans patent purgeit works”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (18351910)
“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 wouldnt!”
—Anne Sexton (19281974)