Etymologist Quotes & Sayings

The most important thing to realise is that everyone is capable of telling a story. It doesn't matter where we were born or how we grew up. — Maeve Binchy

When God brings a time of waiting, and appears to be unresponsive, don't fill it with busyness, just wait. — Oswald Chambers

Garrison wrote in his memo to Hoar. "There is no place in Mogadishu we cannot go and be successful in a fight. There are plenty of places we can go and be stupid. — Mark Bowden

There's a point I set for myself, and it's an arbitrary point, when I think no matter happens, I'm going to finish that book. And that's when I get to page 100. I have to see it out. — Joanna Scott

Life would never be easy for Winnie, but my job was to make her feel as safe as possible. Whether beating down a loud college idiot or keeping my mom states away, I'd do whatever necessary to protect what was mine. — Bijou Hunter

He was a humorous, good-natured man, maybe because he hoped for little and expected less and took his satisfactions where he found them. — Wendell Berry

... everyone needs a somewhere, a place he can go. There comes a time, you see, inevitably there comes a time you have to have a somewhere you can go! — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The etymologist finds the deadest words to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

As Emerson observes, "The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry."4 — Gene Edward Veith Jr.

For, though the origin of most of our words is forgotten, each word was at first a stroke of genius, and obtained currency, because for the moment it symbolized the world to the first speaker and to the hearer. The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I was one of those people who was always rather frightened of women politicians. — William Whitelaw, 1st Viscount Whitelaw

I love watching the superhero movies and I would love to make one. — Nicolas Winding Refn

We are condemned to live in the World as we fear it to be — A.N. Donaldson

I would be an utter fool to let my journey be defined by the denial of the journey. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

It's well known that the greatest defense against an intruder is the sound of a gun hammer being pulled back. — Vince Vaughn