Silly Roll Call

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

    It is silly to call fat people “gravitationally challenged”Ma self-righteous fetishism of language which is no more than a symptom of political frustration.
    Terry Eagleton (b. 1943)

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

    What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It’s a very rough one, but you went away a boy and came back a man, maybe with an eye missing or whatever but godammit you were a man and people had to call you a man thereafter.
    Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (b. 1922)