quotes about Alphabet
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I like all things grammatical, and I had already written several books about parts of speech, and even the alphabet, so everything that makes up a sentence and even a word was covered except for punctuation.
-- Brian P. Cleary -
Huddled around the fire of the alphabet...
-- Carole MasoSource : Carole Maso (1997). “Aureole: An Erotic Sequence”, Ecco Press
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You gotta learn the alphabet, backwards and forwards. And then the choice is yours, 'cause last I looked, the Bible is written in the same words, the exact same alphabet, as my favorite pornography. Choice is yours.
-- David Lee Roth -
I haven't seen someone so overmatched since Mike Tyson tried to recite the alphabet.
-- Dennis Miller -
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Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical.
-- Edgard VareseSource : Edgard Varèse lecture, edited by Chou Wen-Chung, published in: "391", Nr. 5. Translated by Louise Varèse; Quoted in: "Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music: A Continuing Symposium" (1996), June 17, 1917.
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Je ne peux plus continuer de rapper.. J'ai assassiné l'alphabet !
-- Eminem -
All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.
-- George Eliot -
Procrastination is the longest word in the language, but there's only one letter between its ends when they occupy their proper places in the alphabet.
-- George Horace LorimerSource : George Horace Lorimer (2016). “Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son”, p.22, Lulu.com
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I've always thought of the T-shirt as the Alpha and Omega of the fashion alphabet, ... The White T.
-- Giorgio Armani -
Once I unlocked the mystery of the alphabet that led to words, a multitude of words connecting me to the world, there was no stopping me.
-- Gloria Naylor -
Writing with a simplified alphabet checked the power of custom of an oral tradition but implied a decline in the power of expression and the creation of grooves which determined the channels of thought of readers and later writers.
-- Harold InnisSource : Harold Innis (1999). “The Bias of Communication”, p.50, University of Toronto Press
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Willmott has very tersely said that embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children.
-- Horace Mann -
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I knew the alphabet. Maybe I could be a writer.
-- Hubert Selby, Jr. -
Art Education is as important for a realist artist as an Alphabet is to learn a language.
-- Igor Babailov -
Each of us has his own alphabet with which to create poetry.
-- Irving Stone -
According to all the experts, it's time for me to talk about what I'm going through... I can't. I'd need a new alphabet, one made of falling, of tectonic plates shifting, of the deep devouring dark.
-- Jandy Nelson -
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It was the sheer force of the letters themselves which brought forth the meaning, since the only link between the Sephirot of non-verbal Wisdom and verbal Intelligence was through the letters of the alphabet.
-- Johanna Drucker -
I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.
-- Ludwig van Beethoven -
The Chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chessboard, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem
-- Marcel Duchamp -
The two best predictors of early reading success are alphabet recognition and phonemic awareness.
-- Marilyn Jager Adams -
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Why, if there is alphabet soup, do we not have punctuation cereal?
-- Mary NorrisSource : Mary Norris (2015). “Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen”, p.81, W. W. Norton & Company
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Watch your life as if it were a film. Absorb everything. What you see, hear, and feel will stamp every alphabet of your work.
-- Nikky Finney -
I had no more alphabet than the journeying of the swallows, the pure and tiny water of the small, fiery bird that dances rising from the pollen.
-- Pablo Neruda -
Findability precedes usability. In the alphabet and on the Web. You can’t use what you can’t find.
-- Peter Morville -
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Ah...' Park said, pained. 'What?' 'Those are alphabetized.' 'It's okay. I know the alphabet.' 'Right.' He looked embarrassed. 'Sorry.
-- Rainbow Rowell -
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.
-- Stan Getz -
I like Fisher Price music, nursery rhymes, and the alphabet song.
-- Tre Cool -
I found out I'd been signing my name wrong. You know, like with the alphabet they teach you in preschool. But I think I've got it right now.
-- Vanessa Marano -
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Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet.
-- Victor Hugo -
The illiterate of the future will not be the man who cannot read the alphabet, but the one who cannot take a photograph.
-- Walter Benjamin -
The alphabet was invented in Iraq, so it's a cool place.
-- Baron VaughnSource : "Baron Vaughn on getting stabbed and becoming Tom Servo". Interview with Marah Eakin, tv.avclub.com. February 19, 2016.
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A day will come when man will discover an alphabet in the eyes of the chalcedonies, in the marking of the moth, and will learn in astonishment that every spotted snail has always been a poem.
-- Alejo Carpentier -
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I can clap really fast. I can beatbox. I can type the alphabet in under 2 seconds. That's probably the one I'm most proud of.
-- Asa ButterfieldSource : Source: www.justjared.com
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The very greatest is the alphabet, for in it lies the deepest wisdom; yet only he can fathom it, who truly knows how to put it together.
-- Emanuel Geibel