
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/5834782.Louis_Tomlinson
A collection of quotes on the topic of alphabet, letter, use, word.
https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/5834782.Louis_Tomlinson
“I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.”
"A meeting of minds", The Guardian, 18 November 2005. http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2005/nov/18/classicalmusicandopera.thomasstearnseliot
Attributed
Actual source: A letter to The Economist (16 January 1971), written by one M.J. Shields (or M.J. Yilz, by the end of the letter). The letter is quoted in full in one of Willard Espy's Words at Play books. This was a modified version of a piece "Meihem in ce Klasrum", published in the September 1946 issue of Astounding Science Fiction magazine. http://www.spellingsociety.org/journals/j31/satires.php
Misattributed
Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1 (2010), p. 121
Ante-Nicene Christian library: v. 3 p. 5
Address to the Greeks
Florian Cajori in: A History of Mathematical Notations http://books.google.co.in/books?id=_byqAAAAQBAJ&pg=PT961&dq=Notations&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Wz65U5WYDIKulAW1qIGYDA&ved=0CBwQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Notation&f=false, Courier Dover Publications, 26 September 2013, p. 47.
Source: Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
“Why is the alphabet in that order? Is it because of that song?”
Source: The Maleficent Seven: From the World of Skulduggery Pleasant
“Each of us has his own alphabet with which to create poetry.”
World of Colm Tóibín, writer http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/authorinterviews/9108553/World-of-Colm-Toibin-writer.html, The Daily Telegraph (27 February 2012)
“You silly old fool, you don't even know the alphabet of your own silly old business.”
Reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 86. The quotation has been attributed to many others, such as Lord Chief Justice Campbell, Lord Chesterfield, Sir William Harcourt, Lord Pembroke, Lord Westbury, and to an anonymous judge, and said to have been spoken in court to Garter King at Arms, Rouge Dragon Pursuivant, or some other high-ranking herald, who had confused a "bend" with a "bar" or had demanded fees to which he was not entitled. George Bernard Shaw quotes it in Pygmalion (1912) in the form, "The silly people dont [sic] know their own silly business."
Maule cannot be the original source of the quotation, as it is quoted nearly twenty years before his birth in Charles Jenner's The Placid Man: Or, The Memoirs of Sir Charles Beville (1770): "Sir Harry Clayton ... was perhaps far better qualified to have written a Peerage of England than Garter King at Arms, or Rouge Dragon, or any of those parti-coloured officers of the court of honor, who, as a great man complained on a late solemnity, are but too often so silly as not to know their own silly business." "Old Lord Pembroke" (Henry Herbert, 9th Earl of Pembroke) is said by Horace Walpole (in a letter of May 28, 1774 to the Rev. William Cole) to have directed the quip, "Thou silly fellow! Thou dost not know thy own silly business," at John Anstis, Garter King at Arms (though in his 1833 edition of Walpole's letters to Sir Horace Mann, George Agar-Ellis, 1st Baron Dover, attributes the saying to Lord Chesterfield in a footnote, in the form "You foolish man, you do not understand your own foolish business"). Edmund Burke also quotes it ("'Silly man, that dost not know thy own silly trade!' was once well said: but the trade here is not silly.") in a "Speech in the Impeachment of Warren Hastings, Esq." on May 7, 1789 (when Maule was just over a year old). Chesterfield or Pembroke fit best in point of time.
Attributed
Source: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 66
Getting it right (Singing) http://www.thehindu.com/features/metroplus/queen-of-the-charts/article390455.ece
1920s
Source: the article 'i ein Manifest' (or 'i-manifest'), Kurt Schwitters, in Merz 2. 1923; as quoted in Kurt Schwitters Merzbau: The Cathedral of Erotic Misery, by Elizabeth Burns Gamard, Princeton Architectural Press, New York, 2000, p. 116
Mitch All Together (2003)
Source: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 61
The Need for an Alphabetically Arranged General Usage Dictionary of Mandarin Chinese (February 1986).
p, 125
Dr. Wallis's Account of some Passages of his own Life (1696)
Attributed
Source: Adventures In Consciousness: An Introduction to Aspect Psychology (1975), p. 100
ca. 1921
Quote from 'Chagall in the Yiddish Theater', Avram Kampf, as quoted in Marc Chagall - the Russian years 1906 – 1922, editor Christoph Vitali, exhibition catalogue, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, 1991, p. 94
1920's
Voltaire (1916)
In the introduction, (written in 1951) of his not published book: "Line Form and Color"; as quoted in "Ellsworth Kelly, a Retrospective", ed. Diane Waldman, Guggenheim museum, New York 1997, p. 22
1950 - 1968
Source: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 21
The Need for an Alphabetically Arranged General Usage Dictionary of Mandarin Chinese (February 1986).
"Chinese Characters and the Greek Alphabet" in Sino-Platonic Papers, 5 (December 1987)
Source: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 51
Minerva's Owl p. 11.
The Bias of Communication (1951)
Source: 1960s, Understanding Media (1964), p. 23
Alphabet St.
Song lyrics, Lovesexy (1988)
" Programming http://naggum.no/erik/programming.html", cited in the preface of Physically Based Rendering (2004) by Matt Pharr and Greg Humphreys.
"Finnegans Wake", in James, Seamas & Jacques: Unpublished Writings (London: Macmillan, 1964) p. 161.
Forgotten Home http://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poem/21398/Forgotten_Home
From the poems written in English
Edward Johnston (1960).
"Chinese Characters and the Greek Alphabet" in Sino-Platonic Papers, 5 (December 1987)
Kathasarita Sagara in: "History of Indian Literature".
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/7cncd10.txt (1849), Sunday
Lecture VI: Formation of Opinions
A Course of Popular Lectures (1829)
"Chinese Characters and the Greek Alphabet" in Sino-Platonic Papers, 5 (December 1987)
Source: 1990s and beyond, The Book of Probes : Marshall McLuhan (2011), p. 70
It's In the Wind (1977) "Ceremonies In A Polar Garden"
1970s
Source: 1980s, Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988), p. 81
"Chinese Characters and the Greek Alphabet" in Sino-Platonic Papers, 5 (December 1987) http://sino-platonic.org/complete/spp005_chinese_greek.html
Source: What the Bones Tell Us (1997), Ch. 2
Source: 1980s, Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988), p. 17
as quoted in Letters of the great artists – from Ghiberti to Gainsborough, Richard Friedenthal, Thames and Hudson, London, 1963, p. 233
De Chirico's statement on Metaphysical aesthetic in painting motifs like houses, architecture, railway stations
1908 - 1920, On Mystery and Creation, Paris 1913
Source: 1980s, Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988), p. 15
Source: 1980s, Laws of Media: The New Science (with Eric McLuhan) (1988), p. 74
"8th Foundational Falsehood of Creationism" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU-7d06HJSs, Youtube (March 22, 2008)
Youtube, Foundational Falsehoods of Creationism
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 167.
Source: 1960s, The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962), p. 56
Objection to Latinization
Interview on Helenism .net (September 2011)
"Farewell Ataturk" http://nypost.com/2013/06/27/farewell-ataturk/, New York Post (June 27, 2013).
New York Post
Frank Dobbin, Claudia Bird Schoonhoven (eds) Stanford's Organization Theory Renaissance, 1970-2000, 2010. p. xvii
Source: Memory: A contribution to experimental psychology, 1885, p. 113
Undated
India's Rebirth
The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody (1950), Part II: Ancient Greeks and Worse, Hannibal
quote from Marcel Duchamp, by Kynaston McShine, 1989; as quoted on Wikipedia: Marcel Duchamp
posthumous
Edgard Varèse lecture, edited by Chou Wen-Chung, published in: 391, Nr. 5. June 17, 1917. Translated by Louise Varèse; Quoted in: Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music: A Continuing Symposium (1996), .
Context: Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical. Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor.
Why, Italian Futurists, have you slavishly reproduced only what is commonplace and boring in the bustle of our daily lives.
I dream of instruments obedient to my thought and which with their contribution of a whole new world of unsuspected sounds, will lend themselves to the exigencies of my inner rhythm.
“I'm telling you this 'cause you're one of my friends.
My alphabet starts where your alphabet ends!”
On Beyond Zebra! (1955)
Context: In the places I go there are things that I see
That I never could spell if I stopped with the Z.
I'm telling you this 'cause you're one of my friends.
My alphabet starts where your alphabet ends!
"The Larger College".
In Classic Shades, and Other Poems (1890)
Context: p>Man's books are but man's alphabet,
Beyond and on his lessons lie — The lessons of the violet,
The large gold letters of the sky; The love of beauty, blossomed soil, The large content, the tranquil toil:The toil that nature ever taught,
The patient toil, the constant stir,
The toil of seas where shores are wrought,
The toil of Christ, the carpenter;
The toil of God incessantly
By palm-set land or frozen sea.</p
“Actions, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell characters.”
No. 637
Aphorisms on Man (1788)
Bernard Lewis, "The Question of Orientalism", The New York Review of Books, 24 June 1982