Letters Of The Alphabet Quotes

• When I think of the library of Alexandria and of the fact that, although it burnt down, people continue to sort the letters of the alphabet according to that tradition, then that makes certain expressions of modernity, even of interventions on the textual level, possible.

  Alexander Kluge

  Thinking, Expression, People

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• Educational television should be absolutely forbidden. It can only lead to unreasonable disappointment when your child discovers that the letters of the alphabet do not leap up out of books and dance around with royal-blue chickens.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Education, Children, Disappointment

  Fran Lebowitz (2003). “Metropolitan Life ; Social Studies: Social studies”

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• I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Writing, Letters, Alphabet

  Ludwig Van Beethoven, John Trie (2017). “Ludwig Van Beethoven for Classical Guitar - Tablature: Arranged for Guitar by John Trie”, p.31, BoD - Books on Demand

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• There was an author who titled his books by days of the weeks and another one that used colors. Then there was Edward Gorey who wrote the book The Gashlycrumb Tinies, about the untimely death of 26 Victorian children, each representing a letter of the alphabet. I thought what a great way to link the titles.

  Sue Grafton

  Children, Book, Color

  Interview with Elise Cooper, crimespreemag.com. August 21, 2015.

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• Each letter of the alphabet is a steadfast loyal soldier in a great army of words, sentences, paragraphs, and stories. One letter falls, and the entire language falters.

  Vera Nazarian

  Fall, Army, Soldier

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• You've read some of the poems in this new unpublished book [Walker's Alphabet], e.g., the poem "C." I have a number of poems whose titles are letters of the alphabet: A, B, C, D, E, F.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Book, Numbers, Titles

  Source: www.oxfordjournals.org

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• There are only so many letters in the alphabet. When I talk to young musicians or authors and they ask for advice, I say, You gotta learn all the letters of your own personal alphabet. With music, you need to know all the different kinds of music and everything in and around your given instrument.

  David Lee Roth

  Advice, Musician, Different

  "David Lee Roth vents about Van Halen's future". Interview with Steve Baltin, www.usatoday.com. February 13, 2013.

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• A is for Alibi, my first book, was published in 1982. As it happened the next couple of books took place in June and August of that year. Without meaning to I painted myself into a corner. The other issue was the aging process. I did not want my main character to age one year for every book so I slowed the whole process down. This way I could get through all 26 letters of the alphabet without making her 109 years old in 2015. I might end the series in either 1990 or on New Years Eve 1989.

  Sue Grafton

  New Year, Couple, Book

  Interview with Elise Cooper, crimespreemag.com. August 21, 2015.

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• I like talking to myself and making patterns out of the letters of the alphabet on blank surfaces.

  Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

  Talking, Letters, Patterns

  Interview with Mildred Kiconco Barya, www.pambazuka.org. June 18, 2009.

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• I've come to realize that making it your life's work to be different than your parents is not only hard to do, it's a dumb idea. Not everything we found fault with was necessarily wrong; we were right, for example, to resent, as kids, being told when to go to bed. We'd be equally wrong, as parents, to let our kids stay up all night. To throw out all the tools of parenting just because our parents used them would be like making yourself speak English without using ten letters of the alphabet; it's hard to do.

  Paul Reiser

  Kids, Night, Speak English

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• I am, myself, a very poor visualizer and find that I can seldom call to mind even a single letter of the alphabet in purely retinal terms. I must trace the letter by running my mental eye over its contour in order that the image of it shall leave any distinctness at all.

  William James

  Running, Eye, Order

  William James (1950). “The Principles of Psychology”, p.61, Courier Corporation

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• Writers spend three years rearranging 26 letters of the alphabet. It's enough to make you lose your mind day by day

  Richard Price

  Years, Mind, Letters

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• There would be this algebraic equation with an equals sign in the middle, and all the components would have different letters of the alphabet. It would come out right with x+z^2+t/q=y+co, and the co would be clothes off!

  Tom Stoppard

  Science, Clothes, Different

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• It was the sheer force of the letters themselves which brought forth the meaning, since the only link between the Sephirot of non-verbal Wisdom and verbal Intelligence was through the letters of the alphabet.

  Johanna Drucker

  Links, Letters, Alphabet

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• Numerical logistic is that which employs numbers; symbolic logistic that which uses symbols, as, say, the letters of the alphabet.

  Francois Viete

  Numbers, Use, Letters

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• We have only to see a few letters of the alphabet spelling our name in the sand to recognize at once the work of an intelligent agent. How much more likely, then is the existence of an intelligent Creator behind human DNA, the colossal biological database that contains no fewer than 3.5 billion "letters the longest "word" yet discovered?"

  John Lennox

  God, Intelligent, Names

  John C. Lennox (2011). “God and Stephen Hawking: Whose Design is it Anyway?”, p.74, Lion Books

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• I’m a sucker for this stuff. The @ is called chiocciola (snail) in Italian! The & was once taught as a letter of the alphabet! The manicule has been with us for a millennium! Thank you, Keith Houston, for bringing these little mysteries out of the shadows of typographic history.

  Constance Hale

  Italian, Shadow, Houston

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• When a type design is good it is not because each individual letter of the alphabet is perfect in form, but because there is a feeling of harmony and unbroken rhythm that runs through the whole design, each letter kin to every other and to all.

  Frederic Goudy

  Running, Perfect, Design

  Frederic William Goudy (1940). “Typologia: Studies in Type Design & Type Making, with Comments on the Invention of Typography, the First Types, Legibility, and Fine Printing”, p.43, Univ of California Press

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• As the component parts of all new machines may be said to be old[,] it is a nice discriminating judgment, which discovers that a particular arrangement will produce a new and desired effect. ... Therefore, the mechanic should sit down among levers, screws, wedges, wheels, etc. like a poet among the letters of the alphabet, considering them as the exhibition of his thoughts; in which a new arrangement transmits a new idea to the world.

  Robert Fulton

  Nice, Science, Discovery

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• Why' is the only question that bothers people enough to have an entire letter of the alphabet named after it. The alphabet does not go 'A B C D What? When? How?' but it does go 'V W X Why? Z.

  Douglas Adams

  People, Doe, Letters

  Douglas Adams (2005). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.29, Del Rey

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• They felt, in fact, tremendously bucked-up, which was how Lady Ramkin would almost certainly have put it and which was definitely several letters of the alphabet away from how they normally felt.

  Terry Pratchett

  Letters, Alphabet, Facts

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Guards! Guards!: (Discworld Novel 8)”, p.84, Random House

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• Now when I had mastered the language of this water, and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great river as familiarly as I knew the letters of the alphabet, I had made a valuable acquisition. But I had lost something, too. I had lost something which could never be restored me while I lived. All the grace, the beauty, the poetry, had gone out of the majestic river!

  Mark Twain

  Rivers, Water, Grace

  Mark Twain, Milton Meltzer (2002). “Mark Twain Himself: A Pictorial Biography”, p.35, University of Missouri Press

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