#called

The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice. ↗

— Voltaire

#caprice #his #knows #laws #sovereign

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure - that is all that agnosticism means. ↗

— Clarence Darrow

#agnosticism #called #compliment #consider #i

I've been called many things, but never an intellectual. ↗

— Tallulah Bankhead

#called #i #intellectual #many #never

An English journalist called Michael Viney told me when I was 25, that I would write well if I cared a lot what I was writing about. That worked. I went home that day and wrote about parents not understanding their children as well as we teachers did, and it was published the very next week. ↗

— Maeve Binchy

#called #cared #children #day #did

This sweet, blessed, God-inspired place called America is a champion that has absorbed some blows. But while we bend, we don't break. This is no dark hour; this is the dawn before we remember who we are. ↗

— Artur Davis

#before #bend #blessed #blows #break

The priceless galaxy of misinformation called the mind. ↗

— Djuna Barnes

#galaxy #mind #misinformation #priceless

That great dust-heap called 'history'. ↗

— Augustine Birrell

#called #great

Even though disciplined sleeping habits and the adrenalin of live radio ensures that we are very awake while on duty, there is evidence of a phenomenon called circadian desynchronosis which causes one's brain to function slowly at those times of day when it thinks it should be asleep, regardless how wide awake the body is. ↗

— Evan Davis

#asleep #awake #body #brain #called

The new industries are brainy industries and so-called knowledge workers tend to like to be near other people who are the same. Think of the City of Hollywood. People cluster. This means you have winning regions, such as London and Cambridge, and losing regions. The people who want to be top lawyers in Sunderland are hoovered up by London. ↗

— Evan Davis

#cambridge #city #cluster #hollywood #industries

The work evolves when you get another part, and then you're getting called on to solve difficult characters, to inject a note of humanity into them. It's more interesting for me to do that than to stand around and be sunny. ↗

— Hope Davis

#around #called #characters #difficult #evolves