Alphabet Quotes

182 Alphabet quotes by 162 unique authors

Numerical logistic is that which employs numbers; symbolic logistic that which uses symbols, as, say, the letters of the alphabet. — Francois Viete
I truly believe the book of philosophy to be that which stands perpetually open before our eyes, though since it is written in characters different… — Galileo Galilei
A cathedral without windows, a face without eyes, a field without flowers, an alphabet without vowels, a continent without rivers, a night without stars, and… — Tad R. Callister
Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for nothing? Does anyone demand a licensing fee, each time… — William Gibson
All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other. — George Eliot
Over the last few millennia we've invented a series of technologies - from the alphabet to the scroll to the codex, the printing press, photography,… — Joshua Foer
Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which… — Michel de Montaigne
I didn't learn the alphabet until I was 11. — Roger Moore
Huddled around the fire of the alphabet... — Carole Maso
Now when I had mastered the language of this water, and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great river as familiarly… — Mark Twain
all that paddling around in the alphabet soup of one's childhood, scooping up letters, hoping to arrange them into enlightening sentences that would explain why… — Sue Monk Kidd
I suppose she chose me because she knew my name; as I read the alphabet a faint line appeared between her eyebrows, and after making… — Harper Lee
The beach has a language of its own, with its undulating ribbons of silt, the imponderable hieroglyphs of bird tracks. The receding waves catch on… — Franny Billingsley
They felt, in fact, tremendously bucked-up, which was how Lady Ramkin would almost certainly have put it and which was definitely several letters of the… — Terry Pratchett
Why is the alphabet in that order? Is it because of that song? — Steven Wright
My alphabet starts with this letter called yuzz. It s the letter I use to spell yuzz a ma tuzz. You ll be sort of… — Dr. Seuss
Because we were a poor area, the school had a small budget and was unable to teach the second half of the alphabet. — George Carlin
Listen baby, Muver love you. Muver not dumb. Listen baby: ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ. Thas the alphabet. Twenty- six letters in all. Them letters make up words. Them… — Sapphire
Each of us has his own alphabet with which to create poetry. — Irving Stone
It's only a story, you say. So it is, and the rest of life with it - creation story, love story, horror, crime, the strange… — Jeanette Winterson
I saw a spider-I didn't scream 'cause I can belch the alphabet-Just double dog dare me! And I chose guitar over ballet and I take… — Katy Perry
This is how space begins, with words only, signs traced on the blank page. To describe space: to name it, to trace it, like those… — Georges Perec
Does G get angry because it follows F in the alphabet? Does page 68 in a book start a revolution because it follows 67? — Haruki Murakami
Vowels are the most illuminated letters in the alphabet. Vowels are the colors and souls of poetry and speech. (1976 Penthouse interview) — Patti Smith
To begin with, I turn back time. I reverse it to that quaint period, the thirties, when the huge middle class of America was matriculating… — Tennessee Williams

Who Wrote These Alphabet Quotes

162 authors contributed a total of 182 Alphabet Quotes, led by these top contributors: