Trask Quotes

#1. I recall that, the first time I met a Geordie speaker, it was some days before I could understand a single word he was saying.

Larry Trask

#2. I don't worry about being a woman alone out there. My advice to people is to smile a lot, talk to strangers, accept all invitations and eat everything you're offered.

Rita Gelman

#3. Mr. Trask, do you think the thoughts of people suddenly become important at a given age? Do you have sharper feelings or clearer thoughts now than when you were ten? Do you see as well, hear as well, taste as vitally?

John Steinbeck

#4. It is our response to our circumstances rather than the degree of difficulty that determines whether or not we are discontent

Jerry Bridges

#5. Acting doesn't exist in a vacuum. You need the director to have a set of eyes.

Miles Teller

#6. Trying to make her angry is like trying to find a corner on a bowling ball.

Craig McLay

#7. I wonder if he had a Cathy and who see was.

John Steinbeck

#8. The good qualities in our soul are most successfully and forcefully awakened by the power of art. Just as science is the intellect of the world, art is its soul.

Maxim Gorky

#9. In 1970, Danvers town historian Richard B. Trask asked the property owners, Alfred and Edie Anne Hutchinson, for permission to do an archaeological dig there.

Rosemary Ellen Guiley

#10. You dropped this," he said, totally poker-faced.

Rick Riordan

#11. Each of us, right here, right now - we are the resistance.

Jaye L. Knight

#12. The likelihood is that any English-speaking skier has more words for different types of snow than any inhabitant of Alaska or Greenland.

Larry Trask

#13. Shame, it comes in every size, touches many lives, knocks on many doors.

Neil Diamond

#14. Souls, Ms. Ellis, are for people who blame devils for their illness and praise angels for the cure. I do neither.

Thomas Trask

#15. Everything has a way of coming full circle. It takes patience and perseverance to see a dream through ... to close that circle. Because some dreams, like some circles, can be much bigger than others.

Karen Dale Trask

#16. Mrs. Trask turned to him. When Mr. Pendergast asks for something, we do not say no.

Douglas Preston

#17. In the beginning, it said, we did not understand the extent of it. I

Carrie Ryan

#18. I wonder if he had a Cathy and who she was.

John Steinbeck

#19. They live forever. But many of them are even more lonely and miserable than we are. Why do you think they bother with us? We teach them life's value.

N.K. Jemisin

#20. You're handsome and you have a nice accent, and a chest that would make a nun perspire.

Katie MacAlister

#21. Adam fluttered like a bewildered bee confused by too many flowers.

John Steinbeck

#22. It is indeed possible to change your view of the universe from indifferent to friendly. I have helped thousands of persons make this transition in my workshops.

Srikumar Rao

#23. Resistance is its own reward.

Haunani-Kay Trask

#24. By remaining exactly the same today as you were yesterday, you are guaranteeing that tomorrow will be no better than today.

Daniel Lapin

#25. You mean, the people are armed?" Prince Bentrik was incredulous.

"Great Satan, aren't yours?" Prince Trask was equally surprised. "Then your democracy's a farce, and the people are only free on sufferance. If their ballots aren't secured by arms, they're worthless.

H. Beam Piper

#26. The grammar of a language is simply the way it combines smaller elements (such as words) into larger elements (such as sentences).

Larry Trask

#27. I wanted something very dense, something that would sustain long and more pieces of wood that would be soft, sweet, for more of a mellow sound.

Les Paul

#28. Sex is a matter of biology, while gender is a matter of grammar, and there is no earthly reason why sex should be involved in gender distinctions.

R.L. Trask