Call Signs

Famous quotes containing the words call and/or signs:

“To plunder, butcher, steal, these things they misname empire: they make a desolation and they call it peace.”
—Tacitus (c. 55–c. 120)

“Chaucer sawed life in half and out tumbled hundreds of unpremeditated lives, because he didn’t have the cast-iron grid of a priori coherence that makes reading Goethe, Shakespeare, or Dante an exercise in searching for signs of life among the conventions, compulsions, self-justifications, proofs, wise saws, simple but powerful messages, and poetry.”
—Marvin Mudrick (1921–1986)