Quotes About Glossaries

#1. The first dictionaries were glossaries of Homeric words, intended to help Romans read the Iliad and Odyssey as well as other Greek literature employing the 'archaic' Homeric vocabulary.

Mortimer J. Adler

#2. This is what you learned in college," the narrator tells you early on. "A man desires the satisfaction of his desire; a woman desires the condition of desiring.

Pam Munoz Ryan

#3. One who practices the yoga of love is like child. When the child has a problem, it cries. When it cries, someone comes and helps the child.

Frederick Lenz

#4. Rushing off to the Ministry the night that he had died. Harry clung to this notion, because it

J.K. Rowling

#5. We've never done it that way before" is often cited as the seven last words of a dying church.

Sam Rainer

#6. When you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Charles Caleb Colton

#7. Joy comes to us in moments - ordinary moments. We risk missing out on joy when we get too busy chasing down the extraordinary. Scarcity culture may keep us afraid of living small, ordinary lives, but when you talk to people who have survived great losses, it is clear that joy is not a constant.

Brene Brown

#8. My genius from a boy
Has fluttered like a bird within my heart;
But could not thus confined her power employ,
Impatient to depart.

George Moses Horton

#9. Just remember, when you're with me you're not the strangest person in the room. Go ahead, get weird on me.

Calista Flockhart

#10. The only way to live is to risk being unhappy...and I'd rather be unhappy with the person I loved than as contented as a cat by the fire.

Harry Haskell

#11. Truman has become the patron saint of failed presidents because he left office with a 27 percent approval rating, and people were saying, 'To err is Truman,' yet look at what he did: the Marshall Plan, the creation of NATO, the Truman Doctrine.

Douglas Brinkley

#12. I'm still at the age where I'm constantly seeking approval of people I have respect for.

Eliot Paulina Sumner

#13. A well-bred carriage is difficult to imitate; for in strictness it is negative, and it implies a long-continued previous training.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#14. The longing for order is at the same time a longing for death, because life is an incessant disruption of order.

Milan Kundera