Plural Quotes
66 quotes by 57 authors
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To the newcomer to the south, hearing that a coworker plans a weekend visit to 'mama and them's' (the correct plural possessive, don'tchaknow), might make…
— Celia Rivenbark
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Consciousness is a singular for which there is no plural.
— Erwin Schrodinger
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That isn't the plural of moose. It's moosi.
— Mikey Way
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Take the so-called standard of living. What do most people mean by "living"? They don’t mean living. They mean the latest and closest plural approximation…
— E E Cummings
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If the private sectors are about markets and the public sectors are about governments, then the plural sector is about communities.
— Henry Mintzberg
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The image of keys (plural) perhaps suggests not so much the porter, who controls admission to the house, as the steward, who regulates its administration…
— Craig S. Keener
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A picture is never anything but its own plural description.
— Roland Barthes
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We are now at the point where we must decide whether we are to honour the concept of a plural society which gains strength through…
— Earl Warren
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Remember: Y'all is singular. All y'all is plural. All y'all's is plural possessive.
— Kinky Friedman
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I'm always fascinated by the use of the first-person plural talking about sports.
— Penn Jillette
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Although unions may be good for a worker, singular, they are not always good for workers, plural. Especially when it comes to finding a job.
— Amity Shlaes
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It hurts the spirit, somehow, to read the word environments, when the plural means that there are so many alternatives there to be sorted through,…
— Lewis Thomas
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...reality is always plural and mutable.
— Robert Anton Wilson
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... as a rule of thumb, whenever there appears a plural, correct for a singular. Should I ever let slip a royal WE, put me…
— Nicole Krauss
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...The plural of elf is elves! What a language! What a world!
— Nicole Krauss
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Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant? ...We are all shape-shifters and magical reinventors.…
— Diane Ackerman
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Men in plural […] can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and themselves.
— Hannah Arendt
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chaos: it has no plural.
— Carlos Fuentes
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Why not spend that time on art: painting, sculpting, charcoal, pastel, oils? Are words or numbers more important than images? Who decides this? Does algebra…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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Can the plural possessive express the feelings in your heart? If you don't learn art now, you will never learn to breathe!
— Laurie Halse Anderson
Who Wrote These Plural Quotes
57 authors contributed a total of 66 Plural Quotes, led by these top contributors: