Aarania Quotes & Sayings

If dolphins tasted good," he said, "we wouldn't even know about their language. — Lorrie Moore

Wouldn't it be nice if we lived in a world where no one thought being gay was even something to ride someone about? — Bill Konigsberg

We know that it is the search that gives meaning to any find and that one often has to travel a long way in order to arrive at what is near. — Jose Saramago

I spent 20 years doing research on regular and irregular verbs, not because I'm an obsessive language lover but because it seemed to me that they tapped into a fundamental distinction in language processing, indeed in cognitive processing, between memory lookup and rule-driven computation. — Steven Pinker

I suspect the fault ... is in me: that I hate any job on earth, as a job and a hindrance and a semi-suicide. — James Agee

No one has failed who keeps trying and keeps praying. — Jeffrey R. Holland

God who doesn't know what is going to happen to him with language. And with names. In short, God doesn't yet know what he really wants: this is the finitude of a God who doesn't know what he wants with respect to the animal, that is to say, with respect to the life of the living as such, a God who sees something coming without seeing it coming, a God who will say "I am that I am" without knowing what he is going to see when a poet enters the scene to give his name to living things. This powerful yet deprived "in order to see" that is God's, the first stroke of time, before time, God's exposure to surprise, to the event of what is going to occur between man and animal, this time before time has always made me dizzy. — David Wills

Sometimes you have to go above the law. — Fawn Hall

I absolutely don't have $20 billion. But I'd love to, right? — Jack Ma

I Sing what was lost and dread what was won,
I walk in a battle fought over again — W.B.Yeats