Silly Roll Call

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

    “America how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?”
    —Allen Ginsberg (b. 1926)

    ““Courage!” he said, and pointed toward the land,
    “This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon.”
    In the afternoon they came unto a land
    In which it seemed always afternoon.”
    —Alfred Tennyson (1809–1892)

    “Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may will call it black diamonds. Every basket is power and civilization. For coal is a portable climate.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)