“Blessings be the inventor of the alphabet, pen and printing press! Life would be--to me in all events--a terrible thing without books.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The atoms may be compared to the letters of the alphabet, which can be put together into innumerable ways to form words.… — William Henry Bragg Copy Share Image
Rocks are records of events that took place at the time they formed. They are books. They have a different vocabulary, a… — John McPhee Copy Share Image
When I was awarded a fellowship in poetry by the National Endowment for the Arts (for "Alphabets"), I felt myself suddenly (vaingloriously)… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
As if this whole thing isn't confusing enough, election officials announced this week that the alphabet on the ballot will begin with… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
The problem with State of the Union speeches is that they are, by their nature and design, alphabet soup. It's hard to… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
The poems I did write there [in Harvard] include Alphabets the 1984 Phi Beta Kappa poem and A Sofa in the Forties.… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
What that book does for me is give me the tools in the same way that I had the tools when I… — David Baker Copy Share Image
“There are exactly thirteen letters in my name, and there are also thirteen letters in the English alphabet. And not only are… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
I’m a sucker for this stuff. The @ is called chiocciola (snail) in Italian! The & was once taught as a letter… — Constance Hale Copy Share Image
May God forgive me, but the letters of the alphabet frighten me terribly. They are sly, shameless demons - and dangerous! You… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
I think that I have less conviction than ever that poetry matters - that poetry changes or saves anything or anyone. But,… — Daphne Gottlieb Copy Share Image
I like all things grammatical, and I had already written several books about parts of speech, and even the alphabet, so everything… — Brian P. Cleary Copy Share Image
“In middle school I used to draw letters of the alphabet out of contorted torsos, bodies, arms, legs. A rigid torso with… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
In many Muslim countries, witchcraft is not only on the books as a crime, but is commonly prosecuted. In 2009, for example,… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
In Degas's compositions with several dancers, their steps, postures and gestures often resemble the almost geometric, formal letters of an alphabet, whereas… — John Berger Copy Share Image
When you are a child you learn your alphabet, your numbers, but increasingly, we must learn from the earliest stages that the… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
If you want to write you should learn the alphabet. You write and write and in the end you hava a beautiful,… — Andre Kertesz Copy Share Image
Writing with a simplified alphabet checked the power of custom of an oral tradition but implied a decline in the power of… — Harold Innis Copy Share Image
all that paddling around in the alphabet soup of one's childhood, scooping up letters, hoping to arrange them into enlightening sentences that… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I am the leader of one country which has two alphabets, three languages, four religions, five nationalities, six republics, surrounded by seven… — Josip Broz Tito Copy Share Image
There is never going to be a substitute for face-to-face communication, but we have seen since the alphabet, to the telephone and… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
“There are only twenty-six letters in the English alphabet. You would think there would only be so much you could do with… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
Over the last few millennia we've invented a series of technologies - from the alphabet to the scroll to the codex, the… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
Our four-year-old, like a lot of kids, you introduce him to an iPad and he quite quickly gets drawn in in a… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
“How could an alphabet—letters that didn't even mean anything by themselves—be important? But it was important. Our stories, our names, our alphabet.… — Linda Sue Park Copy Share Image
“Brenna, Beth, Britt…and Blake. Did your parents stop watching Sesame Street after the letter B and didn’t realize there was more to… — Sarina Bowen Copy Share Image
in reading ... stories, you can be many different people in many different places, doing things you would never have a chance… — Natalie Babbitt Copy Share Image
I transmit astral plane harmonies through my brushes into the physical plane. These otherworld colours are reflected in the alphabet of nature,… — Norval Morrisseau Copy Share Image
Possibly the strangest book ever made, the 'Codex Seraphinianus' is an encyclopedia of an imaginary world, with illegible calligraphy - it is… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
The quality I appreciated most about Grafton was her loyalty. She stuck with 'Kinsey Millhone' and the alphabet series conceit for her… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
It’s like a language. You learn the alphabet, which are the scales. You learn sentences, which are the chords. And then you… — Stan Getz Copy Share Image
Wen you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but vether it's worth while… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
If written in the three-letter words of the four-letter alphabet,a human being is determined by a genetic narrative long enough to fill… — Harry Mulisch Copy Share Image
“Taking the alphabet first and learning one letter a year for twenty-six years he will be able to read and write as… — John Kendrick Bangs Copy Share Image
One who has not only the four Ss, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet. as for… — Miguel De Cervantes Copy Share Image
The Minotaur unstrapped his axe and swung it around. It was beautiful in a harsh I’m~going~togut~you~like~a~fish kind of way. Each of its… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
To begin with, I turn back time. I reverse it to that quaint period, the thirties, when the huge middle class of… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
We have only to see a few letters of the alphabet spelling our name in the sand to recognize at once the… — John Lennox Copy Share Image
To me, the circle and the square where the sky and the earth, as symbolized by the ancient Oriental religions; they formed… — Michel Seuphor Copy Share Image
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