#called

The story grew, got way bigger than the contest rules called for, and next thing I knew I had a book. ↗

— Leslie Banks

#book #called #contest #got #grew

There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny. ↗

— Irving Berlin

#corny #element #enough #every #idea

Dylan, myself and my father were in a two hour movie called The Sand Kings, which started off the Outer Limits series. It was sort of the two hour pilot movie. ↗

— Beau Bridges

#dylan #father #hour #kings #limits

Demand the ballot as the undeniable right of every man who is called to the poll, and take special care that the old constitutional rule and principle, by which majorities alone shall decide in Parliamentary elections, shall not be violated. ↗

— John Bright

#ballot #called #care #constitutional #decide

To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity. ↗

— Steven Brust

#avoid #before #called #conform #conformity

When Gordon the Brown, in London in 1997, commissioned a great inquisition or survey of his new realm, the result was the so-called national asset register, which was immediately dubbed by the boomers of the UK Treasury 'the modern Domesday Book.' ↗

— James Buchan

#book #boomers #brown #commissioned #dubbed

He made it quite clear that if I didn't play the role, I would be dead within a week. As you can imagine, the guy who turned down Hagrid would be like the guy who called the Beatles a guitar band. So I couldn't possibly refuse, really. ↗

— Robbie Coltraine

#beatles #called #clear #dead #down

When I was a child I used to read books by Gerald Durrell, who founded Jersey Zoo. He had a job collecting animals for zoos and for a long time that is what I wanted to do. Later when I was a teenager I had a fantastic English teacher called Mrs. Stafford. Her enthusiasm made me decide to be a writer. ↗

— Melvin Burgess

#called #child #collecting #decide #english

Originally, I came from Texas, and we lived on - I guess you'd call it welfare, what we called relief. ↗

— Carol Burnett

#called #came #guess #i #i came

In between goals is a thing called life, that has to be lived and enjoyed. ↗

— Sid Caesar

#called #enjoyed #goals #life #lived