David Crystal Quotes

Texting has added a new dimension to language use, but its long-term impact is negligible. It is not a disaster.

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• I am who I am. I have a low voice, and I look like somebody's dad or boss or a police chief, and those roles come my way.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Dad
  • Police
  • Roles

• Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • God
  • Knowledge
  • Alone

• When you were a kid, a day was a long time and a year was a long time.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Time
  • Long
  • Day

• One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Doing
  • Direction
  • Group

• Back in 1999 and 2000, a few of us... a very few of us... Douglas Clegg, Seth Godin and I... offered free electronic copies of our books in an effort to reach an audience we otherwise wouldn't have reached and to test out a new marketing concept for books. Despite the industry screaming we were crazy, it worked.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Free
  • Crazy
  • Effort

• Look at Microsoft, Google, and Facebook. They have all entered many sectors, and actually, in many of those sectors, they weren't as early as Tencent.

  

  Ma Huateng
  • Look
  • Early
  • Google

• Now all my teachers are dead except silence.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Silence
  • Now
  • Teachers

• If a company knows it may have to pay a large amount of money if it poses an unreasonable threat to others, it will have a strong incentive to act better.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Money
  • May
  • Strong

• I'm one of those crazy people, if I'm watching the trailer for a movie and I'm really excited by it, I'll turn it off because I don't want to know anything. I want to be surprised because I love that more than knowing anything.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
  • Love
  • Know

• Have I been wiretapped? Yes. But who they said wiretapped me was incorrect.

  

  Farrah Fawcett
  • Me
  • Said
  • Yes

• When I saw the first I couldn't believe I was in another great movie that would be made into a trilogy. This movie is quite visible and I think it will stand the test of time. I think kids and parents will love this movie for a long time.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Parents

• His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.

  

  Mae West
  • Mother
  • Should
  • Him

• First appearance deceives many.

  

  Ovid
  • Wisdom
  • First
  • Appearance

• I was born in that family. So I don't know the difference between born as an actor's son and not being an actor's son. I never knew whether it was good or bad.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Good
  • Family
  • Bad

• When you put your characters in a dire situation, they often do things that surprise even you, so you have to go back and revise your original conception of who they are.

  

  Hallie Ephron
  • You
  • Situation
  • Surprise

• The price of empire is America's soul, and that price is too high.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • America
  • High
  • Soul

• I try not to punish the audience by making them listen to too much acoustic guitar.

  

  Kaki King
  • Guitar
  • Listen
  • Too Much

• Thomas Tuchel is a coach who can work in the long-term.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Work
  • Long
  • Coach

• When you go to vacuum in the airlock and you take the hose off the front of your space suit, there's a little bit of water in there, and you can see that sublimate and ice crystals form and fly away. My thought at that moment was, 'Oh, we are not kidding at vacuum here; we are really in space.'

  

  Kathleen Rubins
  • Space
  • Water
  • Fly

• Homo liber de nulla re minus, quam de morte cogitat, et ejus sapientia non mortis, sed vitae meditatio est.

  

  Baruch Spinoza

• For centuries, economic thinkers, from Adam Smith to John Maynard Keynes, have tried to identify the elusive formula that makes some countries more prosperous and successful than others. My curiosity about this topic spurred me, as a young professor of economics in the late 1970s, to research new ways of measuring national competitiveness.

  

  Klaus Schwab
  • Curiosity

• The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs. - Jeanne

  

  Madame Roland
  • Men
  • Dog
  • Canine

• Texting has added a new dimension to language use, but its long-term impact is negligible. It is not a disaster.

  

  David Crystal
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