They Called Quotes

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They called themselves the Munrungs. It meant The People, or The True Human Beings. It's what most people call themselves, to begin with. And then… — Terry Pratchett
In time they could not even fly after their hats. Want of practice, they called it; but what it really meant was that they no… — James M. Barrie
You gave me hyacinths first a year ago; They called me the hyacinth girl.' â€”Yet when we came back, late, from the Hyacinth garden, Your… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt empty and hollow… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Why are they called buildings when theyâ€™re already finished? Shouldnâ€™t they be called builts? — Steven Wright
I love these dudes, but I don't know what they're doing with all that facial hair these days. There's a lot of peach fuzz going… — Pete Wentz
He exulted in the possession of himself once more; he realized how much of the delight of the world he had lost when he was… — W. Somerset Maugham
They called themselves The Souls. They told Ms. Olinski that they were The Souls before they were a team, but she told them that they… — E L Konigsburg
It was like time would stop, and the dancer would sort of step through some kind of portal and he wasn't doing anything different than… — Elizabeth Gilbert
What teachers and the administration in that era never seemed to see was that the mental work of what they called daydreaming often required more… — David Foster Wallace
Percy: The Heka-what? Annabeth: The Hundred-Handed Ones. They called them that because... well, they had a hundred hands. They were the elder brothers of the… — Rick Riordan
But what he didn't understand was that this dreamland was preferable,walking through this life half-sleeping,everything at arm's length or farther away. I understood those mermaids.I… — Sarah Dessen
No they called it the Codex Merlini because it was written by a guy named Ralph. — Karen Chance
I'd learned myself by the age of sixteen that just as girls guarded their virginity, boys guarded something less tangible which they called Themselves. — Joyce Johnson
[Mrs. Allen was] never satisfied with the day unless she spent the chief of it by the side of Mrs. Thorpe, in what they called… — Jane Austen
They had dreams but they called them dreams because they were unrelated to reality, they were a distant unknown, an impossibility, they would never come… — James Frey
And Daniel?" She asked. "Daniel was a player-" "Hey!" "That's what they called the actors." Bill rolled his eyes. — Lauren Kate
Have you tried the cinnamon things?" Poppet asks. "They're rather new. What are they called, Widge?" "Fantastically delicious cinnamon things? — Erin Morgenstern
Goodness gracious me,â€ exclaimed Alexia, â€œwhat are you wearing? It looks like the unfortunate progeny of an illicit union between a pair of binoculars and… — Gail Carriger
Bout time," she huffed, but her voice sounded thick and emotional too."I was at the hospital all day yesterday, but they wouldn't let me see… — Becca Fitzpatrick

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