Alphabet Quotes

• 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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• Human society, the world, and the whole of mankind is to be found in the alphabet.

  Victor Hugo

  World, Language, Found

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• That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.

  Jonathan Swift

  Philosophy, Believe, Fall

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• If plan A doesn't work, the alphabet has 25 more letters - 204 if you're in Japan.

  Claire Cook

  Determination, Japan, Letters

  Claire Cook (2015). “Seven Year Switch”, p.222, Marshbury Beach Books

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• Of all the achievements of the human mind, the birth of the alphabet is the most momentous.

  Frederic Goudy

  Achievement, Design, Mind

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• New friends may be poems but old friends are alphabets. Don't forget the alphabets because you will need them to read the poems.

  Unknown

  Old Friends, Needs, May

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• The very greatest is the alphabet, for in it lies the deepest wisdom; yet only he can fathom it, who truly knows how to put it together.

  Emanuel Geibel

  Lying, Together, Fathom

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• Each of us has his own alphabet with which to create poetry.

  Irving Stone

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• There is another alphabet
  Whispering from every leaf,
  Singing from every river,
  Shimmering from every sky.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Sky, Rivers, Singing

  "Forgotten Home". Poem by Dejan Stojanovic,

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• I'm intrigued that the same letters from the alphabet are used in the word silent and in the word listen. Perhaps it's evidence that the most important part of listening involves remaining silent.

  Robert Herjavec

  Listening, Important, Letters

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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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• My alphabet starts with this letter called yuzz. It s the letter I use to spell yuzz a ma tuzz. You ll be sort of surprised what there is to be found once you go beyond Z and start poking around

  Dr. Seuss

  Ignorance, Carpe Diem, Use

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• 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

  Stopping, World, Mystery

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• Vowels are the most illuminated letters in the alphabet. Vowels are the colors and souls of poetry and speech. (1976 Penthouse interview)

  Patti Smith

  Color, Soul, Vowels

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• I knew the alphabet. Maybe I could be a writer.

  Hubert Selby, Jr.

  Hubert Selby Jr. (2017). “The Demon”, p.5, Penguin UK

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• Why is the alphabet in that order? Is it because of that song?

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Song, Humor

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• The alphabet was a great invention, which enabled men to store and to learn with little effort what others had learned the hard way-that is, to learn from books rather than from direct, possibly painful, contact with the real world.

  B. F. Skinner

  Real, Book, Men

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• Huddled around the fire of the alphabet.

  Carole Maso

  Fire

  Carole Maso (1997). “Aureole: An Erotic Sequence”, Ecco Press

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• P.S. - This is what part of the alphabet would look like if Q and R were eliminated.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Looks, Ifs

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• Art Education is as important for a realist artist as an Alphabet is to learn a language.

  Igor Babailov

  Art, Important, Language

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• Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Character, Looks, May

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• Truth lies in a small compass! The Aristotelians say, all truth is contained in Aristotle, in one place or another. Galileo makes Simplicius say so, but shows the absurdity of that speech by answering all truth is contained in a lesser compass, namely, in the alphabet.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Truth, Lying, Speech

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• I've always thought of the T-shirt as the Alpha and Omega of the fashion alphabet, ... The White T.

  Giorgio Armani

  Fashion, White, T Shirt

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

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• 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

  Book, Doe, Pages

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Kafka On The Shore”, p.190, Random House

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• After sex, after coffee, after everything there is to be said --
  The hovering and beautiful alphabet as we form our first words after making love.
  And somehow I'm still alive.

  Carole Maso

  Beautiful, Sex, Coffee

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