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Calling Quotes (page 86)

Mort Sahl quote: "Mort Sahl, while attending a preview of Otto Preminger's film..."
Mort Sahl, while attending a preview of Otto Preminger's film Exodus, stood up and called out, "Otto, let my people go! Mort Sahl
A couple of times he called the second he'd finished reading a novel and just had to tell me about it, and I know it sounds hokey and librarianish to say so, but I just swooned when he did that. Sarah Vowell
Strictly speaking, there are no such things as good and bad impulses. Think...of a piano. It has not got two kinds of notes on it, the 'right' notes and the 'wrong' ones. Every single note is right at one time and wrong at another. The Moral Law is not any one instinct or set of instincts: it is something which makes a kind of tune (the tune we call goodness or right conduct) by directing the instincts. C. S. Lewis
Jane Austen quote: "You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call..."
You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged. Jane Austen
Soren Kierkegaard quote: "When you were called, did you answer or did you not? Perhaps..."
When you were called, did you answer or did you not? Perhaps softly and in a whisper? Soren Kierkegaard
C. S. Lewis quote: "Nowhere in Chaucer do we find what can be called a radically..."
Nowhere in Chaucer do we find what can be called a radically allegorical poem. C. S. Lewis
Phone calls like ours only happen when you've spent several years hurting and being hurt, until every work you utter or hear becomes coded and loaded, as complicated and full of subtext as a bleak and brilliant play. Nick Hornby
The yearning to know what cannot be known, to comprehend the incomprehensible, to touch and taste the unapproachable, arises from the image of God in the nature of man. Deep calleth unto deep, and though polluted and landlocked by the mighty disaster theologians call the Fall, the soul senses its origin and longs to return to its source. Aiden Wilson Tozer
For the last four years of her life, Mother was in a nursing home called Chateins in St. Louis ... [S]ix months before she died I sent a Mother's Day card. There was a horrible, mushy poem in it. I remember feeling "vaguely guilty. William S. Burroughs
When it is impossible to stretch the very elastic threads of historical ratiocination any farther, when actions are clearly contrary to all that humanity calls right or even just, the historians produce a saving conception of ‘greatness.’ ‘Greatness,’ it seems, excludes the standards of right and wrong. For the ‘great’ man nothing is wrong, there is no atrocity for which a ‘great’ man can be blamed. Leo Tolstoy
Peter S. Beagle quote: "Your name is a golden bell hung in my heart. I would break my..."
Your name is a golden bell hung in my heart. I would break my body to pieces to call you once by your name. Peter S. Beagle
Edgar Allan Poe quote: "Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled,..."
Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence. Edgar Allan Poe
You see," she concluded miserably, "when I can call like that to him across space--I belong to him. He doesn't love me--he never will--but I belong to him. L. M. Montgomery
The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called "spannungsbogen" -- which is the self-imposed delay between desire for a thing and the act of reaching out to grasp that thing. Frank Herbert
Joss Whedon quote: "There's a time and place for everything, and I believe it’s..."
There's a time and place for everything, and I believe it’s called 'fan fiction'. Joss Whedon

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