Quotes About Affixes

#1. Some affixes are wildly promiscuous.

Donna Jo Napoli

#2. A word, after all, is a kind of magic. It locks the substance of a thing in sound or symbol, and affixes it to the ear, or paper, or stone. Words call the world into being. That's power indeed.

Kelly Barnhill

#3. Anglo-Saxon tends not to lend itself to long and elaborate words that have strung together three or four affixes to create a rhetorical term for a very obscure thing. While

Ammon Shea

#4. The smoke from the fire passes through the building and the soot affixes itself to the walls. The smoke passes through the air and keeps going - liberation.

Frederick Lenz

#5. There's an excellent movie we have on TCM called 'It Happened on Fifth Avenue,' which was originally going to be directed by Frank Capra ... but just before he was going to start working on it, he came across this story called 'The Greatest Gift.' And that turned into 'It's a Wonderful Life.'

Robert Osborne

#6. We are no more content to plod along the beaten paths - and so marriage must go the way of God.

Amy Levy

#7. He could not forget the touch of her arms around his neck, impatiently felt as it had been at the time; but now the recollection of her clinging defence of him, seemed to thrill him through and through, - to melt away every resolution, all power of self-control, as if it were wax before a fire.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#8. Every education system on Earth has the same hierarchy of subjects: at the top are mathematics and languages, then the humanities, and the bottom are the arts.

Ken Robinson

#9. The Egyptians had the locusts and in the Middle Ages there was the Black Death with the rats, but tourists are the plague of our century and we'll not survive this one.

Richard Conniff

#10. Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.

Mortimer Adler

#11. Those who look for the beauties in the extraordinary things will miss the beauties in the ordinary things!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#12. If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction.

William Shakespeare

#13. Writing for young readers is almost like dipping into a fountain of youth; for hours a day, I am a child again.

Iain Lawrence

#14. What species is he?" "British

Kirsten Beyer

#15. I think, for me, the goal was never really for my EPs to go mainstream. I think the intention of them was to create a little bit of buzz and to show my musicality because I wrote and produced the EPs myself. The goal was to experiment, with no rules.

Tori Kelly

#16. The only certainty is uncertainty, except your own death, that's damn certain.

Rick Yancey

#17. I want to create a little chaos and make people's heads turn.

Scott Caan

#18. To exist as an individual means not simply to be numerically distinct from other things but to be a self-pole in a dynamic relationship with alterity, with what is other, with the world.

Evan Thompson