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)

    “There is no question what the roll of honor in America is. The roll of honor consists of the names of men who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.”
    —Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924)

    “If ever I should condescend to prose,
    I’ll write poetical commandments, which
    Shall supersede beyond all doubt all those
    That went before; in these I shall enrich
    My text with many things that no one knows,
    And carry precept to the highest pitch:
    I’ll call the work ‘Longinus o’er a Bottle,
    Or, Every Poet his own Aristotle.’”
    —George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)