Foibles Quote by Shabbeer Ahmed Download Open image ““Foibles are like alphabets; they collate and cascade into a prose of follies.”” — Shabbeer Ahmed ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Foibles Follies Mistakes-quotes Writing
“They have a quick verbal exchange but only get to cover the alphabet from A to F, outdoing each other with the most choice… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
“One must find some structure, even if it be this haphazard one of the alphabet.” — Gilbert Sorrentino Copy Share Image
“The text, in its mass, is comparable to a sky, at once flat and smooth, deep, without edges and without landmarks; like the soothsayer… — Roland Barthes Copy Share Image
“Words, even the most ephemeral ones are facts, as heavy as fetters, they leave deep marks.” — Anonymous 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 to find… — Mark R. Trost Copy Share Image
“their eyes skipping down the page in a pattern that resembled, roughly, the letter F.” — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
“A book is like a quarrel. One word leads to another, and may erupt in blood or print, irrevocably.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It seems unlikely that so much literature could be made from twenty-six letters. Doesn't it seem it could all be boiled down to one… — Brenda Shaughnessy Copy Share Image
“Everything, indeed, in a work of art should be unedited,--and even the words, by the manner of grouping them, of shaping them to new… — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
“Language was a vast, complicated tapestry. The key to communication was finding a common thread.” — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
The discussing the characters and foibles of common friends is a great sweetness and cement of friendship. — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Fortunately for those who pay their court through such foibles, a fond mother, though, in pursuit of praise for her children, the most rapacious… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
If, while hurrying ostensibly to the temple of truth, we hand the reins over to our personal interests which look aside at very different… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I learned that famous writers are people with foibles like anyone else and this helped me realize reaching their level of notoriety wasn't impossible. — Kirby Wright Copy Share Image
The common foible of women who have been handsome is to forget that they are no longer so. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Moskin has brought together with care and lucidity an inside history of American diplomacy written through the eyes of the many diplomats who conceived… — Thomas R. Pickering Copy Share Image
As intellectual as we think we are, you still trip, we still have human foibles, sexuality, all the different things to still make you… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
The art of flatterers is to take advantage of the foibles of the great, to foster their errors, and never to give advice which… — Moliere Copy Share Image
Most men call fretting a minor fault, a foible, and not a vice. There is no vice except drunkenness which can so utterly destroy… — Helen Hunt Jackson Copy Share Image
We have been stuffed full of praise for mediocrity and had our foibles diagnosed away with hyphenated jargon and pop psychology. — Kevin DeYoung Copy Share Image
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