33 Alphabet Quotes for You to Enjoy

May God forgive me, but the letters of the alphabet frighten me terribly. They are sly, shameless demons - and dangerous! You open the inkwell, release them; they run off - and how will you ever get control of them again! Nikos Kazantzakis

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Alphabet would be a holding company to house its wackier or noncore efforts - like its Verily life sciences, Waymo self-driving cars, and Loon Internet balloon projects - while Google's advertising-oriented business would stand apart and continue to drive the company's finances. Adam Lashinsky

Life Business Car Internet Drive Google Holding Projects Finances Would Would-Be Like Alphabet House Sciences Verily Balloon Continue Efforts While Apart Stand Company

Amazon has suffered quarters-long profit droughts. Alphabet has given its investors agita over profligate spending on non-core products. Microsoft's growth - if not its profit engine - stalled for years, causing its stock to idle, too. Adam Lashinsky

Profit Too Spending Given Investors Droughts Over Alphabet Idle Causing Years Amazon Stock Microsoft Engine Products Suffered Growth

My parents homeschooled my sister and me for many years. Why? Because the local school insisted that I, being three, should go to preschool, and my sister, being five, should go to kindergarten. The problem? You learn your alphabet in preschool, and I was already reading chapter books. Adora Svitak

Me You Chapter Problem School Three Parents Reading Sister Local Books Local School Kindergarten Insisted Alphabet Learn Because Go Years Five Being Should Your Many Why Preschool

I made three or four different fonts during 'Short Term 12' -' it was how I'd calm my mind between scenes. I have graph paper and gel pens, and I would do the alphabet: just do 'a' over and over again until I got it perfect and then go to 'b' and then 'c'. Brie Larson

Mind Made Three Calm Paper Would Pens Gel Scenes Perfect Between Over Term Until Alphabet Got How Go Short Just Different Short-Term Again Then Graph Four

I've had every chemo in the alphabet, most of them more than once. Some of them that aren't even in the alphabet, they're just numbers - clinical trials. But I bet if you added all those up, it would have to be like 60- or 70-something. I've had 23 bone marrow aspirations. Having one isn't fun and I've had 23. So that's been tough. Craig Sager

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I came up at a time in the late '60s, early '70s where music was without boundaries. You'd go into a music store, and the music was in alphabetical order. I hadn't heard of that word 'genre.' Dianne Reeves

Music Time You Word Late Boundaries Alphabet Genre Without Came Go Heard Up Where Order Store Early

After the turmoil of the Second World War, my family ended up in Russian-occupied East Germany. When I attended fourth grade, I had to learn Russian as my first foreign language in school. I found this quite difficult because of the Cyrillic alphabet, but as time went on, I seemed to do all right. Dieter F. Uchtdorf

War Time Family World School Language First Difficult East Russian Seemed Had Attended Alphabet Learn Because Foreign Foreign Language Up Germany Grade Ended Quite After Turmoil Found Right Second Fourth World War Second World War

Eventually I found it had been working all along-but didn't show anything on screen until it had the first full page of text. I inserted 30 new lines, and suddenly my toy said 'hEllO woRlD'. An hour later I understood alphabet shifting rather better! Graham Nelson

World Better First Shifting On-Screen Later Inserted Rather Had New Hour Toy Until Alphabet Said Understood Been Lines Text Screen Anything Working Page Full Hello Show Suddenly Found Eventually

The letter K was the first one in the alphabet which had not, with more or less justification, been used to designate other vitamins, and it also happened to be the first letter in the word 'koagulation' according to the Scandinavian and German spelling. Henrik Dam

Word First Other Spelling Scandinavian Vitamins Be The First More More Or Less Had Alphabet Also First One Been According German Happened Which Justification Used Less Letter Designate

No matter how thoroughly a person may have learned the Greek alphabet, he will never be in a condition to repeat it backwards without further training. Hermann Ebbinghaus

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A 'philosophical dictionary' is not a dictionary of philosophy that you use to look up obscure thinkers or recondite terms. It is a collection of brief and pithy essays on diverse topics, informed by one vision, and usually arranged in alphabetical order. Ian Hacking

Alphabetical order had to be invented to help people organize the first dictionaries. On the other hand, we may have reached a point where alphabetical order has gone obsolete. Wikipedia is ostensibly in alphabetical order, but, when you think about it, it's not in any order at all. You use a search engine to get into it. James Gleick

You People First Gone Think Other Wikipedia About Invented Point Had Obsolete Reached Alphabet Hand Dictionaries Get Any May Where Order Use Engine Organize Help Help People Search Search Engine

'Alphabet' by the late Danish poet Inger Christensen. It's a book-length abecedarian poem. It's an activist text but also a portal to wonder. Jenny Zhang

Poet Late Danish Poem Alphabet Also Text Wonder Activist

In Degas's compositions with several dancers, their steps, postures and gestures often resemble the almost geometric, formal letters of an alphabet, whereas their bodies and heads are recalcitrant, sinuous and individual. John Berger

Dancers Several Individual Almost Steps Heads Alphabet Geometric Gestures Often Whereas Formal Bodies Resemble Letters

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

Over the last few millennia we've invented a series of technologies - from the alphabet to the scroll to the codex, the printing press, photography, the computer, the smartphone - that have made it progressively easier and easier for us to externalize our memories, for us to essentially outsource this fundamental human capacity. Joshua Foer

Memories Photography Made Few Our Press Easier Invented Computer Outsource Over Alphabet Printing Printing Press Human Essentially Human Capacity Scroll Capacity Us Series Fundamental Millennia Technologies Last

I'm an amazing cook. And I'm a gentleman but can belch the entire alphabet. Classy. Jussie Smollett

Amazing Gentleman Entire Classy Alphabet Cook

In Bulgaria, they use the Cyrillic alphabet, which is completely different from ours. You can't sound the words out, so you can't read street signs or packages in the grocery store! You have to rely on pictures and guesses. Katherine McNamara

The children of politicians learn the allure and tricks of politics along with their alphabet. They inherit a network of useful contacts, and - if they're lucky - a name that confers instant voter recognition. Linda Colley

Politics Politicians Recognition Tricks Network Instant Allure Contacts Name Voter Along Alphabet Learn Children Useful Inherit Lucky

The problem with State of the Union speeches is that they are, by their nature and design, alphabet soup. It's hard to know what a president really cares about when they run down a laundry list and check every issue box under the sun for fear they will offend some constituency if they don't. Mark McKinnon

Nature Problem Fear Will Down Design Every Cares President State Sun Run Laundry Some About Check Know Alphabet Box Issue Soup Offend List The Problem With Really Hard Union Speeches

I used to have a little saying I used when people said, 'What are your priorities?' I'd give them a bit of government alphabet soup. I'd say 'CTCPROW: Counterterrorism, counterproliferation, rest of the world.' Michael Hayden

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