Called

Famous quotes containing the word called:

    “And how many hours a day did you do lessons?” said Alice, in a hurry to change the subject.
    “Ten hours the first day,” said the Mock Turtle: “nine the next, and so on.”
    “What a curious plan!” exclaimed Alice.
    “That’s the reason they’re called lessons,” the Gryphon remarked: “because they lessen from day to day.”
    Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)

    If I were called in
    To construct a religion
    I should make use of water.
    Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    ‘Look in my face. My name is Used-to-was,
    I am also called Played-out and Done-to-death,
    And It-will-wash-no-more.
    Henry Duff Traill (1842–1900)