E. D. Hirsch, Jr. Quotes

“If plain run is good enough for I, you, we, they, why isn't it good enough for he, she, it? Because we have no choice in the matter. The decision was made by those who fixed our grammar at a certain stage of its evolution, and their decision will probably stand forever.”

E. D. Hirsch, Jr.

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• The Romantics were whipping boys of the New Criticism, but they appealed to me anyway. I was recalcitrant. It was clear to me that they had thought innovatively.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • Thought
  • Criticism
  • Romantics

• The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Dream
  • Society
  • First

• The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Power
  • Spring
  • Year

• They say TV has a tendency to diminish actors, and I think that's probably true in the long run - it wears on 'em like bad dental work - but Cheech doesn't show any of the signs of being damaged that way. And as a man, he's fantastic.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Work
  • Long
  • Bad

• Undeniably, I'm a country singer; I'm a country songwriter. But I feel like I make country music for people who like country music and for people who don't.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • People
  • Music
  • Country

• I'm thrilled to be joining Gap Inc., a company that understands the importance of integrating technology and retail in ways that improve the lives of its customers.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Technology
  • Company
  • Retail

• Working with Tyler Perry has been a wonderful experience. Everything he touches turns to gold, it seems like.

  

  Lance Gross
  • Experience
  • Gold
  • Working

• It takes people a while to trust you.

  

  Karl Malone
  • People
  • You
  • Trust

• Our country is in deep trouble. To talk and re-litigate in 1998, or even what Mitt Romney said or didn't say in 1994 or 2002, I don't think most people really care.

  

  Laura Ingraham
  • People
  • Country
  • Care

• Right now the focus is the album that is released and then the tour coming up. After the tour they will let us know about the options and offers that came in for us.

  

  LaToya London
  • Up
  • Know
  • Focus

• Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Writing
  • Reading
  • Line

• I was a bar-back, which is the person who cleans the bathrooms at the end of the night in the bar, and a cook. I had kind of given up. I was into backing other people up. Music was something I just did on the side and I don't think I had the energy to pimp myself out, like call people up and ask them to book me to play.

  

  Feist
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• When I see the Ten Most Wanted Lists... I always have this thought: If we'd made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn't be wanted now.

  

  Eddie Cantor
  • Thought
  • See
  • Now

• Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.

  

  Harriet Martineau
  • May
  • Help
  • Creative

• The success of 'Scrubs' allowed me to pursue anything I felt passionately about without having to worry about money. It allowed me to spend my summer work shopping my show at a nonprofit theater.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Work
  • Money
  • Success

• Something I like to do a lot is just sit by water when there's a current and just stare into the water. I don't fish, I don't hunt, I don't scuba, I don't spear, don't boat, don't play basketball or football - I excel at staring into space. I'm really good at that.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Good
  • Space
  • Water

• Kids and adults are treated differently on sets. Being a kid, you can get away with anything, and it looks cute. But as an adult, it's a whole new journey.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Kids
  • Journey
  • Kid

• A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Deep
  • Results
  • Insecurity

• Find the good. Seek the Unity. Ignore the divisions among us.

  

  Aristotle
  • Good
  • Find
  • Ignore

• I thought as a kid, "Maybe I don't want to start a punk band necessarily. I just want to learn to be a great songwriter," and got really into trying to figure out how that could be possible.

  

  Ezra Furman
  • Band
  • Learn
  • Kid

• SETI is probably the most important quest of our time, and it amazes me that governments and corporations are not supporting it sufficiently.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Time
  • Important

• It is such a complex matter we live within, it is impossible to track logic and decision making really, so therefore each choice can actually only be seen as coincidence.

  

  Alva Noto
  • Live
  • Decision
  • Logic

• The world is not going into concentric blocs of power. It is actually going into a diffusion of power with more centres of decision-making than ever in human civilisation. That requires you to place yourself in far more hubs of power than ever before.

  

  William Hague
  • World
  • Decision
  • Centre

• “If plain run is good enough for I, you, we, they, why isn't it good enough for he, she, it? Because we have no choice in the matter. The decision was made by those who fixed our grammar at a certain stage of its evolution, and their decision will probably stand forever.”

  

  E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
  • Decision
  • Grammar
  • Fixed