Quotes About Orthography

#1. The point is not to let the orthography distract the reader from the meaning.

Mary Norris

#2. ORTHOGRAPHY, n. The science of spelling by the eye instead of the ear.

Ambrose Bierce

#3. The story of English spelling is the story of thousands of people - some well-known, most totally unknown - who left a permanent linguistic fingerprint on our orthography.

David Crystal

#4. English orthography satisfies all the requirements of the canons of reputability under the law of conspicuous waste. It is archaic, cumbrous, and ineffective; its acquisition consumes much time and effort; failure to acquire it is easy of detection.

Thorstein Veblen

#5. Grammar, which is the art of using words properly, comprises four parts: Orthography, Etymology, Syntax, and Prosody.

Samuel Johnson

#6. AGHAST (AGHA'ST) adj.[either the participle of agaze,(see AGAZE) and then to be written agazed, or agast,or from a and gast, a ghost, which the present orthography favours; perhaps they were originally different words.]Struck with horrour, as

Samuel Johnson

#7. In this chthonian world the only thing of importance is orthography and punctuation. It doesn't matter what the nature of the calamity is, only whether it is spelled right.

Henry Miller

#8. It comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don't get on the wrong track or try to do too much.

Steve Jobs

#9. the Japanese ministry of Education acted with inappropriate haste and unforgivable cavalierness, implementing drastic change before anyone realized what was happening. . . . In English it would be almost ad bad as enforcing a new spelling of philosophy as filosofee.

Minae Mizumura

#10. Presently the small of coffee began to fill the room. This was morning's hallowed moment. In such a fragrance the perversity of the world is forgotten, and the soul is inspired with faith in the future ...

Halldor Laxness

#11. It was 1953, and I was still at school. I'd borrowed a silent French film from the library for my 9.5mm projector. It was by Jean Epstein, and it was awful. So I rang the library and asked if they had anything else. They said they had 'Napoleon Bonaparte and the French Revolution.'

Kevin Brownlow

#12. There's a strand of the data viz world that argues that everything could be a bar chart. That's possibly true but also possibly a world without joy.

Amanda Cox

#13. It was a long, hard, tough day. We managed to just sneak through, it was an unbelievable Test match.

Ricky Ponting

#14. One of the most prevalent and undermentioned genres of music is what is known as noise. You can find it all over the world happening in basements, small venues and even some festivals. Often blown off or belittled by critics, the form for the most part goes unheard and unnoticed.

Henry Rollins

#15. Mindfulness isn't inherently Eastern, just as electricity isn't inherently Western. Mindfulness is a quality of presence that's innate in all human beings.

Shamash Alidina

#16. Live My Life provides a much needed shot of timely, thought-provoking, musically forward, irreverence to the status quo,

Nomi Prins

#17. In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act.

Don DeLillo

#18. Don't worry, pray!

Lailah Gifty Akita

#19. I know you're hurting, Taylor, but grief is clouding your judgement and you need to stay focused. If you attack her now, you won't win. You know she has the advantage, Taylor. I've taught you this. Please, we just need to get out of here.

Embee

#20. he merged his group with the small Imperial Fascist League to form the Union, which changed its name in 1936 to the British Union of Fascists and National Socialists. When the war began, its leaders were arrested and locked away.

Joshua Muravchik

#21. I like home. It's warm and there are books.

Ilona Andrews