Khayrallah Center Quotes & Sayings

You and I aren't remembered for what we acquire but for what we contribute. — Mark Victor Hansen

The early dictionaries in English were frequently created by a single author, but they were small works, and not what we think of today as dictionaries. Robert Cawdrey's A Table Alphabeticall, published in 1604, is generally regarded as the first English dictionary. It was an impressive feat in many respects, but it contained fewer than 2,500 entries, the defining of which would not be a lifetime's work. This and the other dictionaries of the seventeenth century were mostly attempts to catalog and define "difficult words"; little or no attention was given to the nuts and bolts of the language or to such concerns as etymology and pronunciation. For — Ammon Shea

I'm a science nerd! Not a cheerleader.
- Claire Danvers — Rachel Caine

You aren't allowed to ask at auditions, legally, a person's race. — David Henry Hwang

It is remarkable ... what a change of temper a fixed income will bring about. — Virginia Woolf

If bearing a reputation as a weirdo is all it takes to be a genius, I'm a shoo-in. Come to think of it, half the people I know are geniuses - the other half, peculiarly enough, idiots. — Todd Rundgren

You have to relax, write what you write. It sounds easy but it's really, really hard. One of the things it took me longest to learn was to trust the writing process. — Diane Setterfield

Culture is one of the two or three most complicated words in the English language. — Raymond Williams