Articulatory Quotes & Sayings

I had professional stunt racers teaching me how to drive. — Devon Aoki

If I break my ankle right now, this Olympics wasn't meant to be. — Ryan Lochte

A man can hardly be said to have made a fortune if he does not know how to enjoy it. — Luc De Clapiers

Churchill was an articulatory genius."

~R. Alan Woods [2013] — R. Alan Woods

Wells is teaching us to think. Burroughs and his lesser imitators are teaching us not to think. Of course, Burroughs is teaching us to wonder. The sense of wonder is in essence a religious state, blanketing out criticism. Wells was always a critic, even in his most wondrous and romantic tales.

And there, I believe, the two poles of modern fantasy stand defined. At one pole wait Wells and his honorable predecessors such as Swift; at the other, Burroughs and the commercial producers, such as Otis Adelbart Kline, and the weirdies, and horror merchants such as H.P. Lovecraft, and so all the way past Tolkien to today's non-stop fantasy worlders. Mary Shelley stands somewhere at the equator of this metaphor. — Brian W. Aldiss

I fear that there is something more serious than accident here, Mr. Brently, said the captain. — Edgar Rice Burroughs

Choosing your flirtations consciously shows emotional maturity. — Amy Leigh Mercree

The sea is intriguing and exciting. It always reinforces in me a sense of belonging. The waves bring with them a strange kind of peace and calm. The sea has been a silent spectator to many major incidents in my life. The many outings with friends and family; the long walks on the shore with dad, my hero and philosopher; the moments spent with my love, the memories are endless. — Jagdish Joghee

No man is an island, entire of itself. — John Donne

I present classics in an unfamiliar way or unfamiliar ingredients and preparations in a classical way. — Wylie Dufresne

Love is when I am concerned with your relationship with your own life, rather than with your relationship to mine ... there must be a commitment to each other's well-being. Most people who say they have a commitment don't; they have an attachment. Commitment means, "I am going to stick with you and support your experience of well-being." Attachment means, "I am stuck without you." — Stewart Emery

Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens. — Norton Juster

From a strictly articulatory point of view there is no succession of sounds. — Roman Jakobson

Rather an end in horror, than horror without end. He could not condemn principles he might need to invoke and apply later. The wolf cannot help having been created by God as he is, but we shoot him all the same if we have to. The great player in diplomacy, as in chess, asks the question,Does this improve me?, not look at the possible fringe benefits If you can't have what you like, you must like what you have. — A.J.P. Taylor