Alphabets English Quotes & Sayings

She imagined the trade in meanings as a kind of game, in which tokens shaped like mahjong tiles were exchanged and switched. Signs moved from one world to another, clacked together, made new sequences. A man in Bolshevik Russia became virtually Chinese; a world unfolded from a paper envelope. This game existed in the borderless continent of her father's head. She could see how he concentrated: 'cher' in Russian, 'neve' in Italian, 'snow' in English, until he arrived at the sound 'xue', and then the character: the radical symbol for rain, the strokes for frozen, the little block of marks that revealed the transition from alphabets to ideograms. — Gail Jones

There is nothing I love more than my role as a mom. — Jennifer Hudson

Part of her wanted to comfort him, to tell him everything was going to be okay. But the rest of her just wanted to throw him to the ground and rip those jeans off him. Funny how she could be so jealous of a pair of pants. They covered the sinfully male body she longed to explore. — Rosalie Lario

Any kind of history you read is basically the winning side telling you the others were bad. — John Lydon

You don't go into battle because you're sure of victory. You go into battle because it's the right thing to do. — C.J. Redwine

Novelist-Citizen of Two Countries Interpreter of his Generation on both Sides of the Sea. — Henry James