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german-language awful toothache
In early times some sufferer had to sit up with a toothache, and he put in the time inventing the German language. Mark Twain
german-language years down-and
My philological studies have satisfied me that a gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years. It seems manifest, then, that the latter tongue ought to be trimmed down and repaired. If it is to remain as it is, it ought to be gently and reverently set aside among the dead languages, for only the dead have time to learn it.
german-language giving awful
Never knew before what eternity was made for. It is to give some of us a chance to learn German.
german-language language speak
The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being. Martin Heidegger
german-language years awful
A gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years.
german-language language charmed
How charmed I am when I overhear a German word which I understand!
german-language littles today
Heinrich Heine so loosened the corsets of the German language that today every little salesman can fondle her breasts. Karl Kraus
german-language bumblebees literature
I taught principally German language and literature at Eton. But any master with private pupils must be prepared to teach anything they ask for. That can be as diverse as the early paintings of Salvador Dali or how bumblebees manage to fly. John le Carre
german-language language organs
The German language is the organ among the languages. Jean Paul
bumblebees nicknames matter
Did I mention I've finally decided on a nickname for you?" "I didn't know you were looking." Well, I've given the matter some serious thought." "And what have you come up with?" "Cookie," I anounced proudly. Xavier scrunched up his face. "No way." "You don't like it? What about Bumblebee?" "Worse." "Snookie-Wookie?" "Do you have any cyanide?" "Well, some of us are just a bit hard to please. Alexandra Adornetto
literature protest
All literature is protest. Richard Wright
literature trios novelists
Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century. Russell Baker
literature trials obscenity
What good is an obscenity trial except to popularize literature? Rex Stout
literature reader
Your reader is at least as bright as you are William Maxwell
literature horror should
I'm not so sure that horror should be dismissed as something less than literature. Whitley Strieber
literature way fiction
Calling one thing 'literature' and another 'fiction' is a way to create status where there is none. Tucker Max
literature analysis instinct
A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature. Trevor Nunn
literature common
The richest author that ever grazed the common of literature. Samuel Johnson
literature inappropriate source
Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility. Wallace Stevens