Mario Pei Quotes

#1. Science and technology contribute to the fast-expanding vocabularies of all living civilized tongues at a faster rate than all other fields of human endeavor put together.

Mario Pei

#2. If you will scoff at language study how, save in terms of language, will you scoff?

Mario Pei

#3. Some folks think that Christianity means a kind of insurance policy, and that it has little to do with this life, but that it is a very good thing when a man dies.

Henry Ward Beecher

#4. Well, I really don't like heights. I don't get on the top deck of a double-decker because that's a bit high for me. I always feel that I'm going to hurl myself off, so heights are a problem.

Jenny Eclair

#5. Should we stop celebrating the Columbus day - the day when the first illegal immigrants entered America?

Evgeni Kostitsyn

#6. Good architecture lets nature in.

Mario Pei

#7. What's Batman's superpower? He hasn't got one. He's just got a lot of gear. Cars and boomerangs and super-lightweight climbing equipment. Which he bought because he's rich. Batman's superpower is cash.

Frank Cottrell Boyce

#8. The soul of her youth clamored for its rights; for a share in the world's glory and exultation.

Kate Chopin