1894 Word Quotes for You to Enjoy

Why need I volumes, if one word suffice? Ralph Waldo Emerson

Word One Word Volumes Why Suffice Need

I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word. A. E. Housman

Word Sense Every Asylum Find Cambridge

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep. A. P. Herbert

Together People Word Sheep Living Admired Spirit Cross Having Only Conception Without Years Lack Twenty-Five Two Two People

For a long time, I felt instinctively irritated - sometimes repelled - by scientific friends' automatic use of the word 'mechanism' for automatic bodily processes. A machine was man-made; it was not a sentient being; a man was not a machine. A. S. Byatt

Retiring is a strange word. I'm 27 years old. I've still got stuff to do. Aaron Peirsol

Strange Old Word Stuff Retiring Got Still Years

Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census,' and people fall asleep. Aaron Sorkin

You People Word Year Fall Statistic About Direct Said Versus Did Just Sampling Census Episode Asleep Certainly Last Last Year

I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I could not write another word, not even the next letter. I went to bed. Eight o'clock the next morning I was up writing again. Abraham Pais

Morning Writing Word Every Dissertation Spent Point Could Write Until Another Bed Came Up Eight Again Next Next Morning Even Letter Four Every Night Night

Modern society has evolved to the point where we counter the old-fashioned fatalism surrounding the word 'cancer' by embracing the idea of the Uber-mind - that our will possesses nearly supernatural powers. Abraham Verghese

I wish to add my mite towards expounding & interpreting the Almighty, & his laws & works, for the most effective use of mankind; and certainly, I should feel it no small glory if I were enabled to be one of his most noted prophets (using this word in my own peculiar sense) in this world. Ada Lovelace

World Word Wish Own Sense Add Laws My Own Small Prophets Almighty Feel Towards Most Glory Were His Effective Noted Mankind Should Use Certainly Using Works Interpreting Peculiar

I would like to think that I curse expertly - it's not something that I do without considering it. I never curse without intending to; it's not something I resort to because of inability to articulate or find the correct word. Adam Mansbach

Word Think Resort Considering Correct Would Find Something Never Like Because Without Articulate Intending Curse Inability

Word of mouth and the Internet are the only press we have left. Adam McKay

Word Internet Mouth Press Only Left Word-Of-Mouth

'Friends' started because Rachel left her husband at the altar. This likability factor is just so stupid to me. It's the same thing as 'wish-fulfillment,' which is a big word you hear in a lot of Hollywood rooms. It basically means that people want to see other people living a life they can't lead, and I don't buy that. I think that's not true. Adam Pally

Life Buy Me You People Word Husband Stupid Big Same Thing Living Think Other See Factor Lead True Altar Because Hear Lot Left Friends Same Just Want Which Hollywood Rooms Means Her Thing Started Basically