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)

    The mode of clearing and planting is to fell the trees, and burn once what will burn, then cut them up into suitable lengths, roll into heaps, and burn again; then, with a hoe, plant potatoes where you can come at the ground between the stumps and charred logs; for a first crop the ashes suffice for manure, and no hoeing being necessary the first year. In the fall, cut, roll, and burn again, and so on, till the land is cleared; and soon it is ready for grain, and to be laid down.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Yes the Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat—
    And there isn’t any call for me to shout it:
    For he will do
    As he do do
    And there’s no doing anything about it!
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)