Animacy Quotes

#1. Some languages, for example, have a gender distinction that is based only on "animacy," the distinction between animate beings (people and animals of both sexes) and inanimate things.

Guy Deutscher

#2. Our whole past experience is continually in our consciousness, though most of it sunk to a great depth of dimness. I think of consciousness as a bottomless lake, whose waters seem transparent, yet into which we can clearly see but a little way.

Charles Sanders Peirce

#3. Yet with these April sunsets, that somehow recall
My buried life, and Paris in the spring,
I feel immeasurably at peace, and find the world
To be wonderful and youthful afterall

T. S. Eliot

#4. Daddies always listen to their little girls.

Dorothea Benton Frank

#5. Neither an assembly line nor a stock market nor an oil well did it, simply what came from one small skull and that one right hand.

Ilka Chase

#6. One goes wherever one is still admitted. Someone told me that I might be able to get a visa for Haiti or San Domingo here.

Stefan Zweig

#7. Life is like a tree and its root is consciousness. Therefore, once we tend the root, the tree as a whole will be healthy.

Deepak Chopra

#8. So great is the economy of Nature, that most flowers which are fertilized by crepuscular or nocturnal insects emit their odor chiefly or exculsively in the evening.

Charles Darwin

#9. We're too busy being special.

Scott Westerfeld

#10. I'm trying to keep the face of my opponent more or less not damaged but eventually to execute the plan and knock him out.

Wladimir Klitschko

#11. How did they even fit you inside a jail cell with a head that big?" "Same way I got inside you. Lots of lube, baby.

Cassia Leo

#12. We are not doomed to an ultimate conflict with no hope of resolution. The message of the Scripture is one of victory - full, final and ultimate victory. It is not our doom that is certain, but Satan's. His head has been crushed by the heel of Christ, who is the Alpha and Omega.

R.C. Sproul

#13. Never trust a German to get a sauce right. Their solution to everything is just add more butter.

Kate Quinn

#14. If you're successful in what you do over a period of time, you'll start approaching records, but that's not what you're playing for. You're playing to challenge and be challenged.

Lou Brock

#15. If I was to go to sleep before midnight, I would feel weird about myself, like I wasted a day. My most productive hours are between midnight and five.

J. Cole

#16. Marriage is a civil contract; people marry to better their worldly condition and improve appearances; it is an affair of house and furniture, of liveries, servants, equipage, and so forth. The

Charles Dickens