Quotes About Irregular Verbs

#1. I spent 20 years doing research on regular and irregular verbs, not because I'm an obsessive language lover but because it seemed to me that they tapped into a fundamental distinction in language processing, indeed in cognitive processing, between memory lookup and rule-driven computation.

Steven Pinker

#2. He was just alive," [Gansey] said helplessly. "He just taught us four irregular verbs last week. And you killed him.

Maggie Stiefvater

#3. Human relations are like the irregular verbs in a number of languages where nearly all verbs are irregular.

Soren Kierkegaard

#4. You wouldn't believe the kind of hate mail I get about my work on irregular verbs.

Steven Pinker

#5. There are bills to be paid, machines to keep in repair,
Irregular verbs to learn, the Time Being to redeem
From insignificance.

W. H. Auden

#6. The top 10 verbs in the English language are all irregular, even though irregular verbs make up only 3 per cent of the language.

Erez Lieberman Aiden

#7. There's nothing quite like a Scotch education. One is left with an irreparable debt. My head is full of irregular verbs still.

Ivor Cutler

#8. English loves to stay out all night dancing with other languages, all decked out in sparkling prepositions and irregular verbs. It is unruly and will not obey - just when you think you have it in hand, it lets down its hair along with a hundred nonsensical exceptions.

Catherynne M Valente

#9. If he was trying German irregular verbs on the poor beast," said Clovis, "he deserved all he got.

Saki

#10. To reform society, and with it humanity, there is only one mean; to transform the mentality of men, to direct them ("les orienter", Fr.) in a new spirit.

African Spir

#11. There are two basic groups of German verbs ... strong and weak. Weak verbs are regular verbs that follow typical rules. Strong verbs are irregular. They don't follow patterns. You deal with strong verbs on your own terms ... Like people, ... The strong ones stand out. The weak ones are the same.

Jill Alexander Essbaum

#12. If oil exploration can threaten a place as beautiful and meaningful as Virunga, where next?

Anna Friel

#13. I do have aspirations when it comes to directing, I suppose, but in a sort of a vague way. It would probably come about if I found a project that I really felt passionate about.

Guy Pearce

#14. Office of itself does much to equalize politicians. It by no means brings all characters to a level; but it does bring high characters down and low characters up towards a common standard.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#15. Not every burden is burden!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#16. Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them.

George Bernard Shaw

#17. Did you ever consider that LSD was really one of the most dangerous drugs ever manufactured because the people who took it turned into yuppies?

Frank Zappa

#18. We've gone overboard on every Queen album. But that's Queen.

Freddie Mercury

#19. The notion of directing a film is the invention of critics - the whole eloquence of cinema is achieved in the editing room.

Orson Welles

#20. Take care, my worthy host," said Albert, "better is a sure enemy to well.

Alexandre Dumas