#alpha

All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other. ↗

— George Eliot

#alphabet #birch #bit #end #father

At a certain point, even if the one alpha male is dominant, at a certain point there's a younger lion that is stronger, and everyone knows it. ↗

— Josh Lucas

#certain #certain point #dominant #even #everyone

I didn't learn the alphabet until I was 11. ↗

— Roger Moore

#i #learn #until

Eventually I found it had been working all along-but didn't show anything on screen until it had the first full page of text. I inserted 30 new lines, and suddenly my toy said 'hEllO woRlD'. An hour later I understood alphabet shifting rather better! ↗

— Graham Nelson

#anything #been #better #eventually #first

Writers spend three years rearranging 26 letters of the alphabet. It's enough to make you lose your mind day by day. ↗

— Richard Price

#day #enough #letters #lose #make

When I was having that alphabet soup, I never thought that it would pay off. ↗

— Vanna White

#having #i #never #off #pay

I think we in the Alpha Band, which was a strange group anyway, weren't dealing with any of these issues. They sneaked up on us and took us over, before we know what was going on. ↗

— T-Bone Burnett

#any #anyway #band #before #dealing

When I think of the library of Alexandria and of the fact that, although it burnt down, people continue to sort the letters of the alphabet according to that tradition, then that makes certain expressions of modernity, even of interventions on the textual level, possible. ↗

— Alexander Kluge

#alexandria #alphabet #although #burnt #certain

What that book does for me is give me the tools in the same way that I had the tools when I learned the regular scales or the alphabet. If you give me the tools, the syntax, and the grammar, it still doesn't tell me how to write Ulysses. ↗

— David Baker

#book #does #give #give me #grammar

A dangerous flicker of energy passes between us, and I see his pupils dilate as arousal floods his body. His mouth finds me aggressively, and his lips close around mine, pushing his tongue inside my mouth; claiming me. I melt into the kiss, aware that his hungry cock will soon be mirroring the actions of his hot tongue, but this time in my tight arsehole. ↗

— Felicity Brandon

#anal-sex #bdsm #bdsm