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Quotedb: The Quotations Database

language

620

"Why is the alphabet in that order? Is it because of that song?"

357

"It is a secret in the Oxford sense: you may tell it to only one person at a time."

philosopher and administrator

361

"To a New Yorker, all Californians are blond, even the blacks. There are, in fact, whole neighborhoods that are zoned only for blond people. The only way to tell the difference between California and Sweden is that the Swedes speak better English."

728

"Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way."

215

"Know what I hate most? Rhetorical questions"

257

"Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images."

781

"Mr. Spock succumbs to a powerful mating urge and nearly kills Captain Kirk."

describing the Star Trek episode "Amok Time"

769

"There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot successfully be put into equations, because it is nonsense."

150

"It gets late early out there."

476

"Armenians and Azerbaijanis in Stepanakert, capital of the Nagorno-Karabakh autonomous region, rioted over much needed spelling reform in the Soviet Union."

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