Alphabetical Order Quotes

• I was terrible at straight items. When I wrote obituaries, my mother said the only thing I ever got them to do was die in alphabetical order.

  Erma Bombeck

  Mother, Order, Literature

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• Hungry Joe collected lists of fatal diseases and arranged them in alphabetical order so that he could put his finger without delay on any one he wanted to worry about.

  Joseph Heller

  Order, Worry, Delay

  1961 Catch-22, ch.17.

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• Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.

  Anatole France

  Order, Dictionary, Universe

  Anatole France (1924). “The Works of Anatole France”

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• She said she thought it [ letter "C"] meant alphabetical order. But nobody bothered to ask did she ever see an "A," a "B," a "D," or an "E." If I were cross-examining her I darn well would have asked her that question.

  Rudy Giuliani

  Order, Letters, Said

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I hadn't thought about the balance in mood. You see that we did it in alphabetical order, so if there's any kind of shape, or any kind of flow, it's random. Gender...we didn't think much about it. It was sort of interesting to see that women often were choosing women and men often were choosing men. And sometimes they wouldn't and that was fun. I didn't know that I would be excited by that, until I saw it happen.

  Lorin Stein

  Fun, Men, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• By the grace of AEC, BNL, God, Green and Hayworth (alphabetical order), we should see neutrinos.

  Leon M. Lederman

  Order, Grace, Green

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• I start at the beginning, mentally screaming every obscenity I can in alphabetical order. Then I start setting them to the tune of "Row, Row, Row Your Boat

  Kiersten White

  Order, Tunes, Boat

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• I also wanted remembering the past relevant to the present. Some people wanted me to put the names in alphabetical order. I wanted them in chronological order so that a veteran could find his time within the panel. It's like a thread of life.

  Maya Lin

  Past, Order, Names

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• The other day, I noticed I'd arranged my spices in alphabetical order when I was on the phone, without even realizing, and when I was a kid I was constantly cleaning and organizing things - my toys, my sister's cosmetics.

  Jayma Mays

  Kids, Phones, Order

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I love arranging my music, not in alphabetical order but by mood, creating playlists for when I have energy and want to work out or go-out party mixes and music to chill out to.

  Natasha Bedingfield

  Party, Creating, Order

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• Mrs Weaver nosed among the books, too dim-witted to grasp that they were in alphabetical order.

  George Orwell

  Book, Order, Weavers

  George Orwell (1956). “The Orwell Reader: Fiction, Essays, and Reportage”, New York : Harcourt, Brace

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• Dictionary: Opinion presented as truth in alphabetical order.

  John Ralston Saul

  Teacher, Teaching, Order

  John Ralston Saul (2012). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• Someone with an obsession for arranging things in alphabetical order was an abcedist, whereas someone with an obsession for arranging them in reverse alphabetical order was a zyxedist.

  Walter Moers

  Order, Obsession, Reverse

  Walter Moers (2008). “The City of Dreaming Books”, p.358, The Overlook Press

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• One time, Niall sat on the floor for hours trying to find a way of putting his M&M's in alphabetical order.

  Louis Tomlinson

  Order, Trying, Way

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• Okay everybody, line up in alphabetical order according to your height.

  Casey Stengel

  Humorous, Order, Profound

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• A dictionary is merely the universe arranged in alphabetical order.

  Anatole France

  Order, Dictionary, Universe

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• I didn't know the draft was in alphabetical order.

  Henrik Zetterberg

  Order, Knows

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• I plan to rearrange the alphabetical order because i think it has a very big error on the parts of the sequence of some letters. For example, I have just discovered that U and I should be together.

  Patricia Barry

  Cheesy Love, Thinking, Errors

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