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)

“Three meals of thin gruel a day, with an onion twice a week, and half a roll on Saturdays.”
—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)

“To plunder, butcher, steal, these things they misname empire: they make a desolation and they call it peace.”
—Tacitus (c. 55–c. 120)