Lat Euro Quotes & Sayings

Symmetry looks good to us; we want more of it. — Susan Messing

I sat parked for a while in the parent pickup lot, watching a bunch of little kids run relays up and down the field. To be nine years old. To have life simply about family and friends and who was mad at who and which games you wanted to play at recess, and getting gold stars on spelling tests, an feeling that first crush.
Laurel, you had everything back then, and you didn't even know it. — Jennifer Castle

Reaching the finish line, never walking, and enjoying the race. These three, in this order, are my goals. — Haruki Murakami

corrections." "Global corrections? — Iris Johansen

I didn't advocate invasion ... I wasn't asked. — Donald Rumsfeld

If someone sends you a love letter you've got to answer back. — Ray Bradbury

Will God or someone give me the power to breathe my sigh into my canvases, the sigh of prayer and sadness, the prayer of salvation, of rebirth? — Marc Chagall

People who call themselves supporters of Israel are actually supporters of its moral degeneration and ultimate destruction. — Noam Chomsky

I love that your house plans for you to get muddy. Like it's in the architecture. — Rainbow Rowell

Women systematically underestimate their own abilities. — Sheryl Sandberg

If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself. — Lord Chesterfield

It gets tiresome being spoken to as if you are a child, even if you happen to be one. — Patrick Rothfuss

Dolls fire our collective imagination, for better and - too often - for worse. From life-size dolls the same height as the little girls who carry them, to dolls whose long hair can 'grow' longer, to Barbie and her fashionable sisters, dolls do double duty as child's play and the focus of adult art and adult fear. — Ellen Datlow

Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be. — Jim Harrison

In a 1957 experiment that helped launch the modern study of language acquisition, the late Roger Brown showed that children know that if you say, "Can you see a sib?" you probably have in mind an action or a process. No other mammal seems to be equipped to use such clues for word learning.

Even more dramatically, no other species seems to be able to make much of word order. The difference between the sentence "Dog bites man" and the sentence "Man bites dog" is largely lost on our nonhuman cousins. There is a bit of evidence that Kanzi can pay attention to word order to some tiny extent, but certainly not in anything like as rich a fashion as a three-year-old human child. — Gary F. Marcus