Circumflex Quotes

#1. If you want to say that a word has a circumflex on its penultimate syllable, without saying flat out that it has a circumflex there, there is a word for it: properispomenon.

Bill Bryson

#2. I love gothic monsters, but I like to root them more firmly in the traditional folklore from which they sprang. Or at least, I like to evoke the feeling of those folk stories.

Ted Naifeh

#3. Joshua made the sun stand still in the sky, but I can't keep these thoughts of You from passing by.

Rich Mullins

#4. I'm much softer than people think. I don't present to the world an emotional face. I'm pretty good at self-control, but I am easily moved.

Christopher Lee

#5. I'm the leader of the pack, which makes me such a lucky Jack, for openers, here's a pair of cuties, here's my darling dealing beauties.

Bruce Forsyth

#6. I'll be pool-side, if you're look'n for me.

Webb Wilder

#7. We enjoy sailing small boats, two of which I have designed and built myself.

Martin Ryle

#8. The tongues of men are not much leashed by concerns for accuracy or truth.

Richard K. Morgan

#9. What the book does as a technology is shield us from distraction.

Nicholas G. Carr

#10. To stop thought, you have to go above it. We are collecting energy. When it is freed, it is like a flood and the water will rise and we are in altered states of attention.

Frederick Lenz

#11. It is bad for a young man to sin; but it is worse for an old man to sin.

Abu Bakr

#12. Is winning the Open worth a million pounds? Well, it's worthwhile winning it - I would recommend it to anybody!

Sandy Lyle

#13. When I look for my existence I do not look for it in myself.

Antonio Porchia

#14. Those who play with fire should expect to be consumed by it.

Katie MacAlister

#15. My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my father telling me fairy tales that he had made up shaped me profoundly, too.

Kate DiCamillo