John W. Dawson Quotes

Now multitudes of root words are identical in the American languages over vast areas some of them with precisely the same senses, and others with various shades of analogical meaning.

John W. Dawson

• American
• Words

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Export anything to a friendly country except American management.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Country
  • American
  • Management

• The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • American
  • Freedom
  • Giving

• The most important thing Paris gave me was a perspective on Latin America. It taught me the differences between Latin America and Europe and among the Latin American countries themselves through the Latins I met there.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Important
  • American
  • America

• Much of the conventional wisdom associated with Vietnam was highly inaccurate. Far from an inevitable result of the imperative to contain communism, the war was only made possible through lies and deceptions aimed at the American public, Congress, and members of Lyndon Johnson's own administration.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • American
  • War
  • Wisdom

• I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • American
  • Attention
  • Star

• The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

  

  Florence Scovel Shinn
  • Life
  • Game
  • Words

• I love the script and I just thought it was a great role. Like I say, it's like this - the script is like this sad, funny, desperate love song to the lost American man.

  

  Oliver Platt
  • Man
  • Funny
  • Like

• The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • People
  • May
  • American

• I mean, we sit around and we go, you know, 'Torture doesn't work.' Well, it's been around for 5,000 years. Most stuff that doesn't work goes the way of the dodo pretty quick, like waterbeds and 8-tracks and things like that.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Work
  • Pretty
  • Know

• If I'm with a man, is that going to prevent me from achieving my goal? What sacrifices will I have to make in terms of being myself, if I'm with a man? Something that young women find out really quickly is that when you start dating, all of a sudden you're supposed to have a role. You're not allowed to just be yourself.

  

  Candace Bushnell
  • Women
  • Man
  • Myself

• There's no good guys and bad guys.

  

  Hal Holbrook
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Good Guys

• It is expected that a children's story will raise a difficulty and then resolve it: increasingly, this resolution is so prompt and so resounding that one forgets what exactly the difficulty was.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Children
  • Story
  • Resolution

• By the time we've made it, we've had it.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Time
  • Made
  • By The Time

• I like getting 'Times' articles online. But the actual paper just has too many words.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Words
  • Like
  • Paper

• I made this Swedish movie called 'Snabba Cash,' or 'Easy Money,' and it was shown at the Berlin Film Festival. A lot of American studios, agents, and people like that saw it there and liked it.

  

  Daniel Espinosa
  • People
  • Money
  • American

• The words 'Space Age' have a quaint, nostalgic tone - sitting on midcentury modern furniture watching 'The Jetsons.'

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Age
  • Words
  • Space

• I like my subjects to be American, and not too dead, so I can interview people who knew them.

  

  A. Scott Berg
  • People
  • American
  • I Can

• My children speak very good Chinese, and they translate for our American friends.

  

  Wendi Deng Murdoch
  • Good
  • Children
  • Friends

• When I had my first child, I didn't write for a year, and I felt when I tried to start again I might actually not be able to do it anymore. I really could not do it well, and I felt out of sorts with it.

  

  Jennifer Egan

• The average American worker has fifty interruptions a day, of which seventy percent have nothing to do with work.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Work
  • American
  • Day

• Waste not the remnant of thy life in those imaginations touching other folk, whereby thou contributest not to the common weal.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Life

• There are so many people, deaf or otherwise abled, who are so talented but overlooked or not given a chance to even get their foot in the door.

  

  Marlee Matlin
  • People
  • Door

• I love it when real science finds a home in a fictional setting, where you take some real core idea of science and weave it through a fictional narrative in order to bring it to life, the way stories can. That's my favorite thing.

  

  Brian Greene
  • Life
  • Real
  • Home

• Now multitudes of root words are identical in the American languages over vast areas some of them with precisely the same senses, and others with various shades of analogical meaning.

  

  John W. Dawson
  • American
  • Words