Silly Roll Call

Famous quotes containing the words silly, roll and/or call:

    “Parisians are so besotted, so silly and so naturally inept that a street player, a seller of indulgences, a mule with its cymbals, a fiddler in the middle of a crossroads, will draw more people than would a good Evangelist preacher.”
    —François Rabelais (1494–1553)

    “Roll on, thou ball, roll on!
    Through pathless realms of Space”
    —Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)

    “The obscure only exists that it may cease to exist. In it lies the opportunity of all victory and all progress. Whether it call itself fatality, death, night, or matter, it is the pedestal of life, of light, of liberty and the spirit. For it represents resistance—that is to say, the fulcrum of all activity, the occasion for its development and its triumph.”
    —Henri-Frédéric Amiel (1821–1881)