Derivations Quotes

#1. English is an outrageous tangle of those derivations and other multifarious linguistic influences, from Yiddish to Shoshone, which has grown up around a gnarly core of chewy, clangorous yawps derived from ancestors who painted themselves blue to frighten their enemies.

Roy Blount Jr.

#2. It would be most wholesome if for at least twenty years art historians were forbidden to refer to any derivations. If they were not allowed to account for a work of art mainly by tracing where it comes from, they would have to deal with it in and by itself
which is what they are most needed for.

Rudolf Arnheim

#3. It's Smith, actually.' Dr Smith smiled, bowing. 'I've remembered that my name is Smith. Almost definitely. Good old English name. Hopefully means 'noble valiant warriot' and not 'he who hits kittens with a hammer.' You'd be surprised the derivations of common surnames in the English countryside ...

James Goss

#4. The productions of the mind and hand seem very numerous in books and manufactures. But all this variety lies in an exquisite subtlety and derivations from a few things already known, not in the number of axioms. VIII

Francis Bacon

#5. I am very driven. I do believe in what I call "the G factor." I must be spirit led.

Mo Abudu

#6. I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.

Mary Shelley

#7. People who have memorized your songs-how can you not love them?

Todd Rundgren

#8. If your right hand was lame, wouldn't your left miss its mate? You might get along without it, but you'd always be aware that something was missing. That's natural, not weak.

Elizabeth Hunter

#9. Father I cannot tell a lie. I did it with my little hatchet.

George Washington

#10. The Giver laughed, then Jonah, too, chuckled reluctantly.

Lois Lowry

#11. They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they never kept but one; they promised to take our land, and they took it.

Dee Brown

#12. Such an arrangement would provide Taiwan and China with a forum for dialogue whereby they may forge closer ties based on mutual understanding and respect, leading to permanent peace in the Taiwan Strait.

Nick Lampson

#13. I never really felt like my age stopped people from wanting to work with me. I was speaking at conferences and lecturing at universities at 18, and I think that was mainly because web developing and management was a really young industry.

Matt Mickiewicz

#14. The Negro was freed and turned loose as a penniless, landless, naked, ignorant laborer. Ninety-nine per cent were field hands and servants of the lowest class.

W.E.B. Du Bois

#15. I've always had a tendency to be much more optimistic about people than I should be. I'd like to be a little shrewder.

Evan Williams