Famous Quotes & Sayings

Daphne Gottlieb

I think that I have less conviction than ever that poetry matters - that poetry changes or saves anything or anyone. But, in fact, that's tremendously freeing. If it doesn't matter much, the stakes are lower and you can't really fail. It's insurrection. It's a tiny alphabet revolution. A secret. A psalm.

Marshall McLuhan

By phonemic trans-formation into visual terms, the alphabet became a universal, abstract, static container of meaningless sounds

It will go to the Swahili alphabet or something else,

Mitch Hedberg

...and then at the end of the letter I like to write P.S. - this is what part of the alphabet would look like if Q and R were eliminated.

Paul Williams

The Russians and the Chinese will use their veto to make sure that there is an alphabet soup of organizations running Kosovo.

Michael Hayden

I used to have a little saying I used when people said, 'What are your priorities?' I'd give them a bit of government alphabet soup. I'd say 'CTCPROW: Counterterrorism, counterproliferation, rest of the world.'

Roy H. Williams

Each letter of the alphabet represents a phoneme, a tiny sound that joins with other tiny sounds to make the more complex sounds we call words.

Adora Svitak

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 my sister, being five, should go to kindergarten. The problem? You learn your alphabet in preschool, and I was already reading chapter books.

Stan Getz

It’s like a language. You learn the alphabet, which are the scales. You learn sentences, which are the chords. And then you talk extemporaneously with the horn. It’s a wonderful thing to speak extemporaneously, which is something I’ve never gotten the hang of. But musically I love to talk just off the top of my head. And that’s what jazz music is all about.

Dr. Seuss

My alphabet starts with this letter called yuzz. It's the letter I use to spell yuzz-a-ma-tuzz. You'll be sort of surprised what there is to be found once you go beyond 'Z' and start poking around!

John Williams

I don't think we're going to get into the Greek alphabet this year. The good news is it's still 56 days before it starts.

Josh Pais

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 be a little bit invisible.

Hubert Selby, Jr.

I knew the alphabet. Maybe I could be a writer.

Mark McKinnon

The problem with State of the Union speeches is that they are, by their nature and design, alphabet soup. It's hard to know what a president really cares about when they run down a laundry list and check every issue box under the sun for fear they will offend some constituency if they don't.

We don't know. It will go to the Swahili alphabet or something else,

Hermann Ebbinghaus

Out of the simple consonants of the alphabet and our eleven vowels and diphthongs all possible syllables of a certain sort were constructed, a vowel sound being placed between two consonants.

Virginia Postrel

For designers, the rigidity of an alphabet presents a never-ending artistic challenge: How do you do something new and still preserve the letters' essential forms?

Possibly the strangest book ever made, the 'Codex Seraphinianus' is an encyclopedia of an imaginary world, with illegible calligraphy - it is written in an alphabet no one can understand - and surreal drawings of odd beasts and machines.

Roz Chast

I sometimes suffer from insomnia. And when I can't fall asleep, I play what I call the alphabet game.

Why is the alphabet in that order? Is it because of that song? The guy who wrote that song wrote everything.