Top 100 Quotes About Alphabet
#1. Omens are a language, it's the alphabet we develop to speak to the world's soul, or the universe's, or God's, whatever name you want to give it. Like an alphabet, it is individual, you only learn it by making mistakes, and that keeps you from globalizing the spiritual quest.
Paulo Coelho
#2. The trees are God's great alphabet:
With them
He writes in shining green
Across the world
His thoughts serene.
Leonora Speyer
#3. Verily, the index finger that testifies to the oneness of Allah Azzawajal in prayer, utterly rejects to write even an alphabet, endorsing the rule of the tyrant
Sayyid Qutb
#4. Why, if there is alphabet soup, do we not have punctuation cereal?
Mary Norris
#5. So really there's almost no point in planning anything out at all, because life is so infinitely complex that you can almost never just take a straight road from A to B without going via the whole rest of the alphabet first, and all because a butterfly happened to flap its wings in Thailand
Andrew Blackman
#6. Ah ... ' Park said, pained. 'What?' 'Those are alphabetized.' 'It's okay. I know the alphabet.' 'Right.' He looked embarrassed. 'Sorry.
Rainbow Rowell
#7. Having reached the halfway mark in the alphabet, my prime focus is on writing each new book as well as I can.
Sue Grafton
#8. The Most Used Alphabet A Dose Not Appear in Spelling of 1 to 999,It Appears 1st Time in 1000 & Continues Forever.
Avishek Mondal
#9. They felt, in fact, tremendously bucked-up, which was how Lady Ramkin would almost certainly have put it and which was definitely several letters of the alphabet away from how they normally felt.
Terry Pratchett
#10. She said she was working for the ABC news, it was as much of the alphabet as she knew how to use.
Elvis Costello
#11. Madeline displayed the bright sadder-but-wiser outlook of an alert first grader who'd discovered the alphabet in a school where Ecclesiastes is the primer - life is futility, a deeply terrible experience, but the really serious thing is reading.
Philip Roth
#12. The gitano is the most distinguished, profound and aristocratic element in my country, the one that most represents its Way of being and best preserves the fire, the blood and the alphabet of Andalusian and universal truth ...
Federico Garcia Lorca
#13. Findability precedes usability. In the alphabet and on the Web. You can't use what you can't find.
Peter Morville
#14. I truly believe the book of philosophy to be that which stands perpetually open before our eyes, though since it is written in characters different from those of our alphabet it cannot be read by everyone.
Galileo Galilei
#15. Procrastination is the longest word in the language, but there's only one letter between its ends when they occupy their proper places in the alphabet.
George Horace Lorimer
#16. To tell you the truth, I'm shocked, as I travel across this country, at how little people know or don't want to know about HIV/AIDS. There are a lot of people who don't know that HIV is one thing and AIDS is another. Those people just think it's one big old alphabet of a disease.
Sheryl Lee Ralph
#17. One day is enough to master reading in Korean. Hangeul is a very scientific and convenient alphabet system for communication.
J.M.G. Le Clezio
#18. Numerical logistic is that which employs numbers; symbolic logistic that which uses symbols, as, say, the letters of the alphabet.
Francois Viete
#19. Reading is perception as translation. The inert signs of an alphabet become living meanings in the mind.
Siri Hustvedt
#20. If plan A fails, we still have the rest of the alphabet
Loesje
#21. Each of us has his own alphabet with which to create poetry.
Irving Stone
#22. For designers, the rigidity of an alphabet presents a never-ending artistic challenge: How do you do something new and still preserve the letters' essential forms?
Virginia Postrel
#23. I cannot find it in me to fear a man who took ten years a learning of his alphabet.
Elizabeth I
#24. It's gonna be a lot of zeroes in that contract. You gonna think it's alphabet soup or something, all those zeroes in there.
Deion Sanders
#25. Pain? I know pain at the molecular level... It pulls at my atoms... Sings to me in an alphabet of fear... I am the boiling man... come to break the bones of your sins, meat puppet...
James O'Barr
#26. My mother, before she became my mother, was followed by the man with whom she would make love, who would cover her with his name, who would annihilate her with his alphabet.
Elena Ferrante
#27. Of all the achievements of the human mind, the birth of the alphabet is the most momentous.
Frederic Goudy
#28. I like all things grammatical, and I had already written several books about parts of speech, and even the alphabet, so everything that makes up a sentence and even a word was covered except for punctuation.
Brian P. Cleary
#29. Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
Michel De Montaigne
#30. A cathedral without windows, a face without eyes, a field without flowers, an alphabet without vowels, a continent without rivers, a night without stars, and a sky without a sun - these would not be so sad as a ... soul without Christ.
Tad R. Callister
#31. The problem with State of the Union speeches is that they are, by their nature and design, alphabet soup. It's hard to know what a president really cares about when they run down a laundry list and check every issue box under the sun for fear they will offend some constituency if they don't.
Mark McKinnon
#32. Character starts with the alphabet. Letters: words: sentences Character is a function of language - a collection of errors and deviations that resonate with certain behaviors. As with every other element in fiction, it is a record of a writer's decisions.
Noy Holland
#33. I never know the heron as it flies at first. What is the slow, wide-winged figure in the sky? Then I see it, like a word in a foreign language, like seeing one's own name written in a strange alphabet and recognizing it, I say it: the heron.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#34. Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.
George William Curtis
#35. I am, myself, a very poor visualizer and find that I can seldom call to mind even a single letter of the alphabet in purely retinal terms. I must trace the letter by running my mental eye over its contour in order that the image of it shall leave any distinctness at all.
William James
#36. I often think flowers are the angels' alphabet whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious and beautiful lessons for us to feel and learn.
Louisa May Alcott
#37. The Chess pieces are the block alphabet which shapes thoughts; and these thoughts, although making a visual design on the chessboard, express their beauty abstractly, like a poem
Marcel Duchamp
#38. The atoms may be compared to the letters of the alphabet, which can be put together into innumerable ways to form words. So the atoms are combined in equal variety to form what are called molecules.
William Henry Bragg
#39. Poetry is a type-font design for an alphabet of fun, hate, love, death.
Carl Sandburg
#40. Architecture is the alphabet of giants; it is the largest set of symbols ever made to meet the eyes of men. A tower stands up like a sort of simplified stature, of much more than heroic size.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#41. My favorite alphabet is 'R'. It has got: Revenge, Racism, Reincarnation, Renaissance, Revival and Resurgence.
Bhavik Sarkhedi
#42. Reality is symbolic. We build it using only the 26 symbols of the alphabet alongside images that speak to us on a linguistic level built from the 26 symbols of the alphabet.
Dean Cavanagh
#43. In all the twelve years I was at school no one ever succeeded in making me write a Latin verse or learn any Greek except the alphabet.
Winston Churchill
#44. The alphabet is male and female. If you will know the correct order of letters, you make a world, you make creation. This is why they will hide the order. If you will know the combinations, you make all life and death.
Don DeLillo
#45. That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.
Jonathan Swift
#46. I told her I'd made a huge mistake and that sparkles was definitely a letter. The kindergarten teacher was like, please don't ever talk about the alphabet again.
Audrey Bell
#48. The alphabet was one thing when applied to clay or stone, and quite another when set down on light papyrus.
Marshall McLuhan
#50. The great question of philosophy remains: If life is meaningless, what can be done about alphabet soup?
Woody Allen
#51. Flowers are the alphabet of angels, whereby they write on the hills and fields mysterious truths.
Benjamin Franklin
#52. I have an impulse to write all over the orange walls- I need an alphabet of endings ripped out of books, of hands pulled off of clocks, of cold stones, of shoes filled with nothing but wind.
Jandy Nelson
#53. DNA is the quintessential information molecule, the most advanced message processor at the cellular level - an alphabet and a code, 6 billion bits to form a human being.
James Gleick
#54. I'm an amazing cook. And I'm a gentleman but can belch the entire alphabet. Classy.
Jussie Smollett
#55. If I had to watch the rest of the Jesse Walker strip tease, I would moan the alphabet.
Nicole Williams
#56. I've always thought of the T-shirt as the Alpha and Omega of the fashion alphabet.
Giorgio Armani
#57. ... [T]he letters of the alphabet (two Cs, a large D; the combination of Y, S, and L) belong on an ophthalmologist's chart. For the Parisienne, luxury should never be spelled out.
Anne Berest
#59. I know. I admit that. You're working with NSC now. And the FBI." "So?" "So how would you like to be part of a joint effort with NIC?" "I already have enough alphabet letters, thanks." "You
David Baldacci
#60. Should I have taken him by the hand and led him over to the Zappa? No. I won't spoon-feed the customers. If you don't know your alphabet, you have no business leaving your house, let alone shopping for premium music.
Yvonne Prinz
#61. I grew up in the East Village, in Alphabet City, when it was a very dangerous neighborhood. To survive there, I had to learn to be a little bit invisible.
Josh Pais
#62. All that paddling around in the alphabet soup of one's childhood, scooping up letters, hoping to arrange them into enlightening sentences that would explain why things had turned out the way they had. It evoked a certain mutiny in me.
Sue Monk Kidd
#63. Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet.
Victor Hugo
#64. Life is alphabet soup, Elizabeth. Eat that soup." ***
Penny Reid
#65. It was the sheer force of the letters themselves which brought forth the meaning, since the only link between the Sephirot of non-verbal Wisdom and verbal Intelligence was through the letters of the alphabet.
Johanna Drucker
#66. The English alphabet is pure insanity ... , It can hardly spell any word in the language with any degree of certainty.
Mark Twain
#67. All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.
George Eliot
#68. Marissa keeps herself entertained by rating the guys that cruise by. She has her own rating scale: each guy is assigned a letter of the alphabet. But it isn't A to Z order - Marissa must have like a touch of autism or something, because she has this theory that some letters are sexier than others.
Elana K. Arnold
#69. But for the first time, I don't feel like the English language has developed enough letters in the alphabet to adequately express the words I want to say to you.
Colleen Hoover
#70. After the turmoil of the Second World War, my family ended up in Russian-occupied East Germany. When I attended fourth grade, I had to learn Russian as my first foreign language in school. I found this quite difficult because of the Cyrillic alphabet, but as time went on, I seemed to do all right.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#71. Vowels are the most illuminated letters in the alphabet. Vowels are the colors and souls of poetry and speech. (1976 Penthouse interview)
Patti Smith
#72. As if this whole thing isn't confusing enough, election officials announced this week that the alphabet on the ballot will begin with the letter R, then W, then Q. You know, even Sesame Street is laughing at California now.
Jay Leno
#73. I didn't learn the alphabet until I was 11.
Roger Moore
#74. Willmott has very tersely said that embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children.
Horace Mann
#75. My books are often shelved around those of Chinua Achebe and Margaret Atwood, or Chimamanda Adichie and Monica Ali. All of this depends, of course, on the bookstore and how conversant the shelf stocker is with the alphabet.
Chris Abani
#76. Here is the alphabet of the pulsing apocalypse that is fatherhood, a book in love with what words, like parents, create: beauty, terror, awe.
Lucy Corin
#77. Art Education is as important for a realist artist as an Alphabet is to learn a language.
Igor Babailov
#78. Out of the simple consonants of the alphabet and our eleven vowels and diphthongs all possible syllables of a certain sort were constructed, a vowel sound being placed between two consonants.
Hermann Ebbinghaus
#79. Genes are biochemical recipes written in a four-letter alphabet called DNA.
Matt Ridley
#80. We are but beginners now in spiritual education; for although we have learned the first letters of the alphabet, we cannot read words yet, much less can we put sentences together; but as one says, "He that has been in heaven but five minutes, knows more than the general assembly of divines on earth.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#81. Blessings be the inventor of the alphabet, pen and printing press! Life would be
to me in all events
a terrible thing without books.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
#82. God who knows all things, I have no prayer book and I do not know any prayers by heart. But you know all the prayers. You are God. So this is what I am going to do. I am going to say the alphabet, and I will let you put the words together.
Neil Gaiman
#83. Many years afterwards, we attempt to solve puzzles that were not mysteries at the time and we try to decipher half-obliterated letters from a language that is too old and whose alphabet we don't even know.
Patrick Modiano
#84. In Degas's compositions with several dancers, their steps, postures and gestures often resemble the almost geometric, formal letters of an alphabet, whereas their bodies and heads are recalcitrant, sinuous and individual.
John Berger
#85. The alphabet will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls. They will trust the written characters and not remember themselves.
Socrates
#86. So labour at your Alphabet,
For by that learning shall you get
To lands where Fairies may be met.
Andrew Lang
#87. My alphabet starts with this letter called yuzz. It s the letter I use to spell yuzz a ma tuzz. You ll be sort of surprised what there is to be found once you go beyond Z and start poking around
Dr. Seuss
#88. Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
#89. Alphabet soup is my magic eight ball. Served hot or cold, words are delicious.
Amanda Mosher
#90. Abuse really is its own alphabet. Those who have not gone through it cannot understand it fully. The echos of violence hang in subconscious long after the threat is gone.
Michelle Franklin
#91. You are trying to take my mind off the coming announcement and I appreciate it, but all that alphabet soup stuff confuses me. You do realize that I am a very natural blonde, don't you?" "You don't get to play that blondie card with me, darlin'. I already know how smart you are.
Carolyn Brown
#92. The alphabet of ahimsa is best learnt in domestic school and I can say from experience that if we secure success there, we are sure to do so everywhere else.
Mahatma Gandhi
#93. I used to have a little saying I used when people said, 'What are your priorities?' I'd give them a bit of government alphabet soup. I'd say 'CTCPROW: Counterterrorism, counterproliferation, rest of the world.'
Michael Hayden
#94. Mr Vimes," said Mrs Winkings, "ve cannot help but notice that you still haf not employed any of our members in the Vatch ... "
Say 'Watch', why don't you? Vimes thought. I know you can. Let the twenty-third letter of the alphabet enter your life.
Terry Pratchett
#95. You gotta learn the alphabet, backwards and forwards. And then the choice is yours, 'cause last I looked, the Bible is written in the same words, the exact same alphabet, as my favorite pornography. Choice is yours.
David Lee Roth
#96. Jed Perl writes precisely and ecstatically. Antoine' s Alphabet is a history and a fairy tale, a work of criticism, and a work of art.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#97. Nature is hieroglyphic. Each prominent fact in it is like a type; its final use is to set up one letter of the infinite alphabet, and help us by its connections to read some statement or statute applicable to the conscious world.
Thomas Starr King
#98. The easiest and full of fun way to teach your children alphabet!!. Introducing "The Grocery Cart Spree Writing ABCs" story book by Doris Hankamer.
Doris Birdwell Hankamer
#99. Speech and prose are not the same thing. They have different wave-lengths, for speech moves at the speed of light, where prose moves at the speed of the alphabet, and must be consecutive and grammatical and word-perfect. Prose cannot gesticulate. Speech can sometimes do nothing more.
James Kenneth Stephen
#100. He couldn't finish the name. The final letter swelled in his throat, to the size of the whole alphabet.
Charles Dickens
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