Top 31 Burchfield Quotes
#1. At all periods of the [English] language it is difficult to assign a beginning date to most new words and meanings. They tend to slip into the language silently, and are placed in date order only when scholars subsequently get to work.
Robert Burchfield
#2. It seems at times I should be a composer of sounds, not only of rhythms and colors. Walking under the trees, I felt as if the color made sound.
Charles E. Burchfield
#3. Let's get deeper.
Let's go past the flesh.
It takes thought, to really get into this.
Shaune Bordere
#4. Before starting work go thru all the former material. Many things of vital importance have been lost sight of.
Charles E. Burchfield
#7. Get yourself to a vantage point of seclusion and view the world with your eyes alone. Think of the infinite spaces of the skies and the world beneath.
Charles E. Burchfield
#8. I've gotten my personal life all the way intact and made sure that it's straight. Without that, you have no foundation. Your building is going to crumble.
Dr. Dre
#9. In 1776, at the point of severance, except for an infusion of words from east coast Indian languages, the English language of North America was not in any radical way dissimilar from that of what the American settlers called the mother country.
Robert Burchfield
#10. Many people spend their whole lives somewhere they don't want to be out of fear that the alternative is worse.
Jo Nesbo
#11. Donald Trump says he's going to change the no-guns policy at his resorts. I can't wait to see that.
Kevin Drum
#12. Because this is what I believe - that second chances are stronger than secrets. You can let secrets go. But a second chance? You don't let that pass you by.
Daisy Whitney
#13. The language of Doctor Johnson and Mrs Hester Lynch Thrale, and that of their adult contemporaries, was the stately language of the time, polished, stylish, unordinary, even in the intimate pages of their diaries, and the regime of instruction was severe and practical.
Robert Burchfield
#14. The laboring man and the trade-unionist, if I understand him, asks only equality before the law. Class legislation and unequal privilege, though expressly in his favor, will in the end work no benefit to him or to society.
William Howard Taft
#15. Free trade will go a long way toward alleviating poverty in Central America. Yet trade alone is not enough.
Oscar Arias
#16. If you are an entrepreneur, you have to think outside of the box.
Wayne Rogers
#17. Vulgarity finds its antidote; old crudities become softened with time. Distinctions, both those that are useful and those that are burdensome, flourish and die, reflourish and die again.
Robert Burchfield
#18. I see possibilities in everything. For everything that's taken away, something of greater value has been given.
Michael J. Fox
#19. Computer users soon learn that the miraculous powers of personal computers are based on avoidance of error.
Robert Burchfield
#20. As an artist grows older, he has to fight disillusionment and learn to establish the same relation to nature as an adult, as he had when a child
Charles E. Burchfield
#21. I believe it is imperative to see modern English grammar as a rich and diverse linguistic system deposited on our [England's] shores 1,500 years ago, and left with us unweakened, though substantially changed by the social and political events of the intervening period.
Robert Burchfield
#22. A novel is a work of poetry. In order to write it, one must have tranquility of spirit and of impression.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
#23. The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib.
Robert Burchfield
#24. Lexicography is a chastening as well as an illuminating and fascinating art.
Robert Burchfield
#25. Charles Burchfield was exceptional. As such an accomplished artist, he had limited previous association with academia and teaching.
Paul Smith
#26. To finish is both a relief and a release from an extraordinarily pleasant prison.
Robert Burchfield
#27. Doodling serves as a means of keeping the hand or fingers limber, so that they are always ready for serious work.
Charles E. Burchfield
#28. American English is the greatest influence of English everywhere.
Robert Burchfield
#29. People ask me how can I be stylish, how can I be elegant and what can I wear? My only answer is study! You have to learn.
Miuccia Prada
#30. An artist finds his happiest combination in a play of complementary colors. They are direct contrasts yet do not jar; they awaken the beholder, but do not disturb him.
Charles E. Burchfield
#31. I have a little Nintendo DS, and I play these brain games that are supposed to stimulate your mind.
Lindsey Vonn
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