Glottal Quotes

#1. His English was exceptional. There was a glottal sound in his voice, but it was not harsh. I'd often asked him to help me with my sparse Arabic, trying to get my pronunciation of this or that word right. "Shukran." "Afwan." "Qumbula." Thank you. You're welcome. Bomb.

Kevin Powers

#2. All sense, all judgement, overthrown by a h-dropping, glottal-stopping glitter pirate, and I didn't have to care.

Alexis Hall

#3. His jabber had a glottal, chanted quality, seemingly designed to guide you past the territory where you might wish to tell him to shut up already or even to strike him, into a realm of baffled wonderment as you considered the white noise of a nerd's id in full song.

Jonathan Lethem

#4. We live through our hardships not to achieve our dreams but to gift our dreams to ourself.

Harshada Pathare

#5. I had a terrible time hiring rich people. It sounds funny, but the problem is when things go wrong they can ask, 'Why am I doing this?' You don't ever want anybody asking that question. You want them to say, 'I know why I'm doing it, I need the money, let's go' or whatever it is that draws them.

Ben Horowitz

#6. He who has it in his power to commit sin, is less inclined to do so. The very idea of being able, weakens the desire.

Ovid

#7. I find that through all my work, I really get to see and feel energy, health and vitality between people and their surroundings and how they interact with each other.

Alexandra Stoddard

#8. People are generally irrational, unreasonable and selfish. They deserve to be loved, anyway.

Mother Teresa

#9. Republics have a longer life and enjoy better fortune than principalities, because they can profit by their greater internal diversity. They are the better able to meet emergencies.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#10. I don't know how music works, I'm just glad that it does.

Lou Brutus

#11. Fundamental discoveries can and should be made in industry or academies, but to carry that knowledge forward and to develop a new drug to the market has to depend on the resources of industry.

John Vane

#12. It was almost a relief, no longer having to be extraordinary. To give up on existential questioning and simply abide.

Robin Wasserman

#13. The Framework Agreement is one of the best things the [Clinton] Administration has done because it stopped a nuclear weapons program in North Korea.

Madeleine Albright

#14. Typographical laziness was slowly destroying our culture, according to Lexa and her pals. Inexactitude was death.

Scott Westerfeld

#15. We are creating and encouraging a culture of distraction where we are increasingly disconnected from the people and events around us, and increasingly unable to engage in long-form thinking. People now feel anxious when their brains are unstimulated.

Joe Kraus