In all the twelve years I was at school no one ever succeeded in making me write a Latin verse or learn… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The alphabet of ahimsa is best learnt in domestic school and I can say from experience that if we secure success there,… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Numerical logistic is that which employs numbers; symbolic logistic that which uses symbols, as, say, the letters of the alphabet. — Francois Viete Copy Share Image
“I write with the entire alphabet, not just the popular letters. Readers don't want to lose themselves in the text. They want… — Mark R. Trost Copy Share Image
“The writing system at the opposite extreme took the longest to emerge: the alphabet, one symbol for one minimal sound. The alphabet… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
I am, myself, a very poor visualizer and find that I can seldom call to mind even a single letter of the… — William James Copy Share Image
Omens are a language, it's the alphabet we develop to speak to the world's soul, or the universe's, or God's, whatever name… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
There was an author who titled his books by days of the weeks and another one that used colors. Then there was… — Sue Grafton 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
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
“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
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
“x, n. Doesn’t it strike you as strange that we have a letter in the alphabet that nobody uses? It represents one-twenty-sixth… — David Levithan 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
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
A scholar like myself who is not a Sinologist and yet ventures the proposition that Chinese languages should be rewritten in the… — Eric A. Havelock Copy Share Image
I saw a spider, I didn't scream 'Cause I can belch the alphabet Just double dog dare me And I chose guitar… — Katy Perry Copy Share Image
Nature is hieroglyphic. Each prominent fact in it is like a type; its final use is to set up one letter of… — Thomas Starr King Copy Share Image
New York doesn't exactly have neighborhoods, the way most cities do. What it has is closer to distinct and separate villages, some… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
You gotta learn the alphabet, backwards and forwards. And then the choice is yours, 'cause last I looked, the Bible is written… — David Lee Roth Copy Share Image
There would be this algebraic equation with an equals sign in the middle, and all the components would have different letters of… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
“Dad says there are more than three thousand letters in the Japanese alphabet, which could pose a problem. There are only twenty-six… — Rin Chupeco Copy Share Image
Amazon has suffered quarters-long profit droughts. Alphabet has given its investors agita over profligate spending on non-core products. Microsoft's growth - if… — Adam Lashinsky Copy Share Image
The alphabet was a great invention, which enabled men to store and to learn with little effort what others had learned the… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
The beach has a language of its own, with its undulating ribbons of silt, the imponderable hieroglyphs of bird tracks. The receding… — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
Visitors who come from the Soviet Union and tell you how marvelous it is to be able to look at public buildings… — Clive James 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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’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