Vasques De Carvalho Quotes & Sayings

Order is important. In language classes, you'll typically learn words in thematic order because it's a comfortable way to organize classes ("Today, we're going to learn about animals!") and it's a comfortable way to learn ("Today, I learned about animals!"). But there's an unintended consequence of doing this: you get your words mixed up. I learned all of my French numbers and colors at the same time, and I still have problems remembering whether sept is six or seven, or whether jaune is yellow or green. This is borne out by the research: when you learn a bunch of similar words at once, you'll have a harder time remembering which one is which. — Gabriel Wyner

Status, as in any traditional, class-conscious society, declines more slowly than wealth. — Mohsin Hamid

When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father's estate — Chinua Achebe

While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I'm no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women. — Stephen Hawking

Most of the people that I went to school with - I went to secondary school - we were educated to go and work in the line at Ford's, and if we were lucky, technical skilled labor. I sort of rejected that, and thought I wanted to do something else. — Billy Bragg

Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile. — Christy Mathewson

My music lives because of real players. — Abel Korzeniowski

Playing the game means treating your dogs like gentlemen, and your gentlemen like dogs. — Ted Tally

For the professors in the academy, for the humanities generally, misery is more amenable to analysis: happiness is a harder nut to crack. — Ian McEwan

I have fun every day. The game is supposed to be fun. — Manny Ramirez

Cedric Price said: "Technology is the answer. But what is the question? — Dan Hill

In this land of great opportunity and few roads (in most regions the Alaskan Highway is the only real road), the immense distances can only be reasonably handled by air, in fact, half of all the private aircraft in the world are registered in Alaska. Near any urban center, such as they were, I couldn't look up into the sky without seeing at least one fixed wing clawing itself into the sky. — George Meegan

You can't picture NOTHING, because as soon as you do, it's SOMETHING. — Cynthia C. DeFelice