"Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical." — Edgard Varese

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• I was terrible at straight items. When I wrote obituaries, my mother said the only thing I ever got them… — Erma Bombeck
• I've always thought of the T-shirt as the Alpha and Omega of the fashion alphabet, ... The White T. — Giorgio Armani
• Of all the achievements of the human mind, the birth of the alphabet is the most momentous. — Frederic Goudy
• The policy of letting the child 'do what he likes' is an insidious one, since the children are encouraged to… — Murray Rothbard
• That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental… — Jonathan Swift
• I read someplace that I used to make B-pictures. Hell, they were a lot farther down the alphabet than that… — John Wayne
• As the component parts of all new machines may be said to be old[,] it is a nice discriminating judgment,… — Robert Fulton
• I haven't seen someone so overmatched since Mike Tyson tried to recite the alphabet. — Dennis Miller
• The Chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the… — Marcel Duchamp
• Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet. — Victor Hugo
• P.S. - This is what part of the alphabet would look like if Q and R were eliminated. — Mitch Hedberg
• It's the Roman numeral for 10. 5/5/89 is my birthday: 5 plus 5 is 10, and this is my tenth… — Chris Brown

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