Alphabet Quotes

182 Alphabet quotes by 162 unique authors

I had no more alphabet than the journeying of the swallows, the pure and tiny water of the small, fiery bird that dances rising from… — Pablo Neruda
Why' is the only question that bothers people enough to have an entire letter of the alphabet named after it. The alphabet does not go… — Douglas Adams
The warrior of light knows the importance of intuition. In the midst of battle, he does not have time to think of the enemy's blows,… — Paulo Coelho
Brother raises a hand against brother and son against father (how terrible!) and the father also against son. And moreover it is a continuity-matter, for… — Saul Bellow
One who has not only the four S's, which are required in every good lover, but even the whole alphabet; as for example... Agreeable, Bountiful,… — Miguel de Cervantes
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 twin blades was… — Rick Riordan
According to all the experts, it's time for me to talk about what I'm going through... I can't. I'd need a new alphabet, one made… — Jandy Nelson
I have an impulse to write all over the orange walls- I need an alphabet of endings ripped out of books, of hands pulled off… — Jandy Nelson
I knew the alphabet. Maybe I could be a writer. — Hubert Selby, Jr.
I suppose there is no place in the world where snobbery is quite so ever-present or where it is cultivated in such refined and subtle… — George Orwell
You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself. You learn to watch… — Beryl Markham
Somebody said once or wrote, once: 'We're all of us children in a vast kindergarten trying to spell God's name with the wrong alphabet blocks! — Tennessee Williams
There is another alphabet, whispering from every leaf, singing from every river, shimmering from every sky. — Dejan Stojanovic
Reading is perception as translation. The inert signs of an alphabet become living meanings in the mind. — Siri Hustvedt
What is the point of trying to put down on paper emotions that are too complex, too huge, too overwhelming to be confined by an… — Jodi Picoult
Ah...' Park said, pained. 'What?' 'Those are alphabetized.' 'It's okay. I know the alphabet.' 'Right.' He looked embarrassed. 'Sorry. — Rainbow Rowell
I wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup? — Jerry Seinfeld
Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical. Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with… — Edgard Varese
My books are often shelved around those of Chinua Achebe and Margaret Atwood, or Chimamanda Adichie and Monica Ali. All of this depends, of course,… — Chris Abani
There is never going to be a substitute for face-to-face communication, but we have seen since the alphabet, to the telephone and now the Internet,… — Howard Rheingold
My parents homeschooled my sister and me for many years. Why? Because the local school insisted that I, being three, should go to preschool, and… — Adora Svitak
The body itself is an information processor. Memory resides not just in brains but in every cell. No wonder genetics bloomed along with information theory.… — James Gleick
The atoms may be compared to the letters of the alphabet, which can be put together into innumerable ways to form words. So the atoms… — William Henry Bragg
I grew up in the East Village, in Alphabet City, when it was a very dangerous neighborhood. To survive there, I had to learn to… — Josh Pais
When I was having that alphabet soup, I never thought that it would pay off. — Vanna White

Who Wrote These Alphabet Quotes

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