#calls

I always have trouble with titles for my books. I usually have no title until the editor has to present the book and calls me frantically, 'Judy, we need a title.' ↗

— Judy Blume

#book #books #calls #editor #frantically

This kitchen is completely calm. Some of the old-fashioned chefs - they become kings in their kitchen, they've got to be called chef. But I don't care if someone calls me chef or Heston, it really doesn't bother me. ↗

— Heston Blumenthal

#bother #called #calls #calm #care

We also must pull from our highest ideals of justice and protect against those ills that destabilized our economy - like predatory lending, over-leveraged financial institutions and the unchecked avarice of the past that trumped fairness and common sense. Our platform calls for significant cuts in federal spending. ↗

— Cory Booker

#also #avarice #calls #common #common sense

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. ↗

— Euripides

#fool #foolish #sense #talk #you

The publisher is a middleman, he calls the tune to which the whole rest of the trade dances; and he does so because he pays the piper. ↗

— Geoffrey Faber

#calls #dances #does #pays #piper

I've had to fight for roles and I've lost a hundred roles, but 'Smoking' and 'Smith' were phone calls. That's the dream. ↗

— Adam Brody

#dream #fight #had #hundred #i

For three days after death, hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off. ↗

— Johnny Carson

#calls #continue #days #death #fingernails

Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between memoir and novel. ↗

— Leslie Fiedler

#between #books #calls #gray #gray area

I'm still friendly with Dean. He still calls me on the phone from time to time. John Dean was fired and later ended up spending some time in prison for his role in Watergate. ↗

— Fred F. Fielding

#dean #ended #fired #friendly #from time to time

A blind bloke walks into a shop with a guide dog. He picks the Dog up and starts swinging it around his head. Alarmed, a shop assistant calls out: 'Can I help, sir?' 'No thanks,' says the blind bloke. 'Just looking.' ↗

— Tommy Cooper

#around #assistant #blind #bloke #calls