English Orthography Quotes

#1. English orthography satisfies all the requirements of the canons of reputability under the law of conspicuous waste. It is archaic, cumbrous, and ineffective; its acquisition consumes much time and effort; failure to acquire it is easy of detection.

Thorstein Veblen

#2. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss.

Nora Ephron

#3. There's a time to talk and a time for silence.

Jeffrey Eugenides

#4. The story of English spelling is the story of thousands of people - some well-known, most totally unknown - who left a permanent linguistic fingerprint on our orthography.

David Crystal

#5. The person who distrusts himself has no touchstone for reality - for this touchstone can be only oneself.

James Baldwin

#6. Life is an inside-out game. The truth is that all our situations and circumstances have their beginnings in our minds. Our idea of who we are creates who we become - the great news is you can change your self-impressions and change your life.

Mark Victor Hansen

#7. the Japanese ministry of Education acted with inappropriate haste and unforgivable cavalierness, implementing drastic change before anyone realized what was happening. . . . In English it would be almost ad bad as enforcing a new spelling of philosophy as filosofee.

Minae Mizumura

#8. The web's strength lies precisely in its unique position as the world's first universal platform.

Jeffrey Zeldman