Rosetta Stone Quotes

• I could teach you how to speak my language, Rosetta Stone.

  Drake

  Humble, Stones, Language

  Song: Over, Album: Thank Me Later, 2010

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• Another hundred years may pass before we understand the true significance of Apollo. Lunar exploration was not the equivalent of an American pyramid, some idle monument to technology, but more of a Rosetta stone, a key to unlocking dreams as yet undreamed.

  Gene Cernan

  Dream, Technology, Keys

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• For many, the icon of the British Museum is the Rosetta Stone, that administrative by-product of the Greek imperial adventure in Africa.

  Neil MacGregor

  Adventure, Museums, Icons

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• Mr. Avery said it was written on the Rosetta Stone that when children disobeyed their parents, smoked cigarettes and made war on each other, the seasons would change: Jem and I were burdened with the guilt of contributing to the aberrations of nature, thereby causing unhappiness to our neighbors and discomfort to ourselves.

  Harper Lee

  Children, War, Parent

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• I suppose some people find their voice later than others, but it's interesting to look back at really early work to see that there's some kernel or a Rosetta Stone, in a way.

  Joe Bradley

  Voice, People, Interesting

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• He's this amazing ambassador for all superheroes. What we've made as a film not only examines that but is also an amazing adventure story. It's been an honor to work on. As a comic book fan, Superman is like the Rosetta Stone of all superheroes.

  Zack Snyder

  Book, Adventure, Superhero

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• The current business model for language education is the student pays — in particular, the student pays Rosetta Stone $500. The problem with this business model is that 95 percent of the world’s population doesn’t have $500.

  Luis von Ahn

  Pay, Population, World

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• I'm learning Spanish - I got Rosetta Stone for Christmas.

  Karlie Kloss

  Christmas, Stones

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• I finish so many books it's amazing. I'm also doing Rosetta Stone, learning some French.

  Kellan Lutz

  Book, Stones

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• The Rosetta Stone of Christian social thought is the Trinity.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Christian, Stones, Social

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• I would go to newsstands and buy paperbacks they were selling for tourists, usually bestsellers and mass market paperbacks. In the beginning, it was like going to the Rosetta Stone--I didn?t understand anything, I'd get a headache--but I began to figure it out, and I'd read a lot of Stephen King paperbacks. I've always said he was my English professor.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Kings, Tourists, Stones

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• When, and how, and at what stage of our development did spirituality and our strange notions of religion arise? the need for worship which is nothing more than our frightened refuge into propitiation of a Creator we do not understand? A detective story, the supreme Who-done-it, written in indecipherable hieroglyphics, no Rosetta stone supplied by the consummate Mystifier to tease us poor fumbling unravellers of his plot.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Women, Religion, Plot

  Victoria Sackville-West, Vita Sackville-West (1985). “No Signposts in the Sea”, Penguin Group USA

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