Famous quotes containing the words ancient, greek, grammar, tables, contracted and/or verbs:
“All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and ... you dont win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.”
—Anita Brookner (b. 1938)
“Whats the Latin name for parsley?
Whats the Greek name for Swines Snout?”
—Robert Browning (18121889)
“All the facts of nature are nouns of the intellect, and make the grammar of the eternal language. Every word has a double, treble or centuple use and meaning.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“The evening falters. Couples in their coats
Are leaving gaps already, and the rest
Move tables closer.”
—Philip Larkin (19221986)
“[If a woman athlete who had contracted the AIDS virus admitted that she] had been with one hundred or two hundred men, theyd call her a slut, and the corporations would drop her like a lead balloon.”
—Martina Navratilova (b. 1956)
“He crafted his writing and loved listening to those tiny explosions when the active brutality of verbs in revolution raced into sweet established nouns to send marching across the page a newly commissioned army of words-on-maneuvers, all decorated in loops, frets, and arrowlike flourishes.”
—Alexander Theroux (b. 1940)