List of Languages By Writing System

Famous quotes containing the words list of, list, languages, writing and/or system:

    “Thirty—the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.”
    —F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)

    “All is possible,
    Who so list believe;
    Trust therefore first, and after preve,
    As men wed ladies by license and leave,
    All is possible.”
    —Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?–1542)

    “The less sophisticated of my forbears avoided foreigners at all costs, for the very good reason that, in their circles, speaking in tongues was commonly a prelude to snake handling. The more tolerant among us regarded foreign languages as a kind of speech impediment that could be overcome by willpower.”
    —Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941)

    “In writing songs I’ve learned as much from Cézanne as I have from Woody Guthrie.”
    —Bob Dylan [Robert Allen Zimmerman] (b. 1941)

    “Books are for the most part willfully and hastily written, as parts of a system to supply a want real or imagined.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)