#alphabet

I often fantasize about torturing some of the lazier letters of the alphabet, like C, U, and E, because together they only manage to accomplish as much as the solitary letter Q. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#fantasy #funny #humor #language #letters

Out of the simple consonants of the alphabet and our eleven vowels and diphthongs all possible syllables of a certain sort were constructed, a vowel sound being placed between two consonants. ↗

— Hermann Ebbinghaus

#being #between #certain #consonants #constructed

Why shouldn't we give our teachers a license to obtain software, all software, any software, for nothing? Does anyone demand a licensing fee, each time a child is taught the alphabet? ↗

— William Gibson

#any #anyone #child #demand #does

I've always thought of the T-shirt as the Alpha and Omega of the fashion alphabet. ↗

— Giorgio Armani

#alphabet #always #fashion #i #t-shirt

I like Fisher Price music, nursery rhymes, and the alphabet song. ↗

— Tre Cool

#fisher #i #like #music #nursery

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

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

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

Should I have taken him by the hand and led him over to the Zappa? No. I won't spoon-feed the customers. If you don't know your alphabet, you have no business leaving your house, let alone shopping for premium music. ↗

— Yvonne Prinz

#common-sense #music #princess #vinyl #business