Top 17 Etymologist Quotes
#1. For, though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained currency, because for the moment it symbolized the world to the first speaker and to the hearer. The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#2. As Emerson observes, "The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry."4
Gene Edward Veith Jr.
#3. The etymologist finds the deadest words to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#4. In my experience with print journalists, the distinction between remarks being uttered on- or off-the-record is held sacrosanct, but the distinction between truth and falsity sometimes isn't.
Sam Harris
#5. The day a woman can walk freely on the roads at night, that day we can say that India has achieved independence
Mahatma Gandhi
#6. Too many among us are afraid to be ourselves. So we give up our dreams to follow the crowd.
Robin Sharma
#7. Time is really for those who really need it. I mean, I deal with it. A lot of people are slaves to the second, minute hand. I can't do that!
Ben Harper
#8. I wouldn't mind doing my own film on the big screen. That'd be cool.
Kodi Smit-McPhee
#9. So you're telling me that normal babies never sleep and always cry?
Leah Remini
#10. I thought you were dead," she went on. "I saw you fall down, and - I thought you were dead.
Cassandra Clare
#11. Are you just a car salesman or are you a poet too?" "I've never been accused of poetry before.
Robert Charles Wilson
#12. I think fame itself is not a rewarding thing. The most you can say is that it gets you a seat in restaurants.
David Bowie
#13. You're supposed to, I think. Just like you were supposed to come to Cairnholm." "I don't believe in stuff like that. Fate. The stars. Destiny." "I didn't say destiny." "Supposed to is the same thing," I said. "Destiny is for people in books about magical swords. It's a lot of crap.
Ransom Riggs
#14. 315. - What commonly hinders us from showing the recesses of our heart to our friends, is not the distrust we have of them, but that we have of ourselves.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#17. If any player has a bad game it's there in the back of your mind in the next game. There's always a hangover. It is like a wounded animal in a way, as you want to get out there as quick as possible and rectify it.
Rio Ferdinand
