The Alphabet Quotes
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The Alphabet Quotes & Sayings
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Had I a thousand daughters, by Heaven! I'd as soon have them taught the black art as their alphabet!
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Blessings be the inventor of the alphabet, pen and printing press! Life would be to me in all events
a terrible thing without books. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Findability precedes usability. In the alphabet and on the Web. You can't use what you can't find.
— Peter Morville
All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.
— George Eliot
I haven't seen someone so overmatched since Mike Tyson tried to recite the alphabet.
— Dennis Miller
Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.
— George William Curtis
The two best predictors of early reading success are alphabet recognition and phonemic awareness.
— Marilyn Jager Adams
Would it insult you if I used your alphabet? I don't think I could start from scratch.
— Clay Griffith
The alphabet was an invention below stairs.
— David Sacks
I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.
— Ludwig Van Beethoven
Of all the achievements of the human mind, the birth of the alphabet is the most momentous.
— Frederic Goudy
Because we were a poor area, the school had a small budget and was unable to teach the second half of the alphabet.
— George Carlin
Numerical logistic is that which employs numbers; symbolic logistic that which uses symbols, as, say, the letters of the alphabet.
— Francois Viete
By phonemic trans-formation into visual terms, the alphabet became a universal, abstract, static container of meaningless sounds
— Marshall McLuhan
If I had to watch the rest of the Jesse Walker strip tease, I would moan the alphabet.
— Nicole Williams
She said she was working for the ABC news, it was as much of the alphabet as she knew how to use.
— Elvis Costello
Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
A well-constructed lie is assembled largely from the alphabet blocks of fact, which will as easily make a pyramid as a platform.
— Lionel Shriver
Willmott has very tersely said that embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children.
— Horace Mann
I wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?
— Jerry Seinfeld
The easiest and full of fun way to teach your children alphabet!!. Introducing "The Grocery Cart Spree Writing ABCs" story book by Doris Hankamer.
— Doris Birdwell Hankamer
Covetousness is both the beginning and the end of the devil's alphabet - the first vice in corrupt nature that moves, and the last which dies.
— Michel De Montaigne
Each man deciphers from the ancient alphabets of nature only those secrets that his own deeps possess the power to endow with meaning.
— Loren Eiseley
The difference between lonely and lovely is only of one single alphabet. That single alphabet is called Friends.
— Sarvesh Jain
I'm an amazing cook. And I'm a gentleman but can belch the entire alphabet. Classy.
— Jussie Smollett
I consider writing as a fine art. We kill it by imposing the alphabet on little children and making it the beginning of learning.
— Mahatma Gandhi
We carry in our incarnate being the alphabet & the grammar of life, but this does not presuppose an achieved meaning either in us or in it.
— Maurice Merleau Ponty
P.S. - This is what part of the alphabet would look like if Q and R were eliminated.
— Mitch Hedberg
Writers spend three years rearranging 26 letters of the alphabet. It's enough to make you lose your mind day by day.
— Richard Price
The alphabet was one thing when applied to clay or stone, and quite another when set down on light papyrus.
— Marshall McLuhan
The alphabet was invented in Iraq, so it's a cool place.
— Baron Vaughn
All I want is that Americans still be able to read the alphabet in a hundred years. I am not very ambitious.
— Gore Vidal
I knew the alphabet. Maybe I could be a writer.
— Hubert Selby Jr.
As you are aware, E is the most common letter in the English alphabet,
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Why is the alphabet in that order? Is it because of that song?
— Steven Wright
I often think flowers are the angels' alphabet whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious and beautiful lessons for us to feel and learn.
— Louisa May Alcott
Writers are alphabet artists. The blank page becomes their canvas as they paint pictures with words.
— Barbara Case Speers
Reading is perception as translation. The inert signs of an alphabet become living meanings in the mind.
— Siri Hustvedt
First the FSB agent, and now the FBI. It was becoming a real alphabet soup of international espionage.
— Kenneth Eade
Does G get angry because it follows F in the alphabet? Does page 68 in a book start a revolution because it follows 67?
— Haruki Murakami
I was taught the alphabet by my aunts before I was four years old, and I was reading the Bible in class and beginning geography when I was six.
— Simon Newcomb
Having reached the halfway mark in the alphabet, my prime focus is on writing each new book as well as I can.
— Sue Grafton
You can't imagine what the Russian alphabet looks like. It's no wonder people are illiterate.
— Jonas Jonasson
Lick the alphabet. It makes you appear creative, it's an easy diagram to remember, it's like aaaaa ... beeeee ... ceeee.
— Sam Kinison
Somebody said once or wrote, once: 'We're all of us children in a vast kindergarten trying to spell God's name with the wrong alphabet blocks!
— Tennessee Williams
Huddled around the fire of the alphabet...
— Carole Maso
The King's 28 letters have been described by scholars as the world's best alphabet and the most scientific system of writing.
— Jared Diamond
Flowers are the alphabet of angels, whereby they write on the hills and fields mysterious truths.
— Benjamin Franklin
Once I unlocked the mystery of the alphabet that led to words, a multitude of words connecting me to the world, there was no stopping me.
— Gloria Naylor
I didn't learn the alphabet until I was 11.
— Roger Moore
He couldn't finish the name. The final letter swelled in his throat, to the size of the whole alphabet.
— Charles Dickens
The great question of philosophy remains: If life is meaningless, what can be done about alphabet soup?
— Woody Allen
In all the twelve years I was at school no one ever succeeded in making me write a Latin verse or learn any Greek except the alphabet.
— Winston Churchill
The trees are God's great alphabet: With them
He writes in shining green
Across the world
His thoughts serene. — Leonora Speyer
I like talking to myself and making patterns out of the letters of the alphabet on blank surfaces.
— Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor
B is for boat, pushing off into the dark. C is the way that we find and we look. D is for diamonds, the bait on the hook.
— Neil Gaiman
The most enviable genius in literary history is the guy who invented alphabet soup: nobody knows who he is.
— Philip Roth
They have a quick verbal exchange but only get to cover the alphabet from A to F, outdoing each other with the most choice of words.
— Melina Marchetta
I found out I'd been signing my name wrong. You know, like with the alphabet they teach you in preschool. But I think I've got it right now.
— Vanessa Marano
Ah ... ' Park said, pained. 'What?' 'Those are alphabetized.' 'It's okay. I know the alphabet.' 'Right.' He looked embarrassed. 'Sorry.
— Rainbow Rowell
New friends may be poems but old friends are alphabets. Don't forget the alphabets because you will need them to read the poems.
— William Shakespeare
