Noah Webster Quotes

Language is the expression of ideas, and if the people of one country cannot preserve an identity of ideas they cannot retain an identity of language.

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• From the night, his solitude, the poet finds day and starts a diary that is lethal to the inert. The dark landscape yields a dialogue.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Night
  • Day
  • Dark

• When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • People
  • Hope
  • Freedom

• I went from 118 pounds to 135 pounds in a few months. But, I still didn't know anything about food.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Know
  • Food
  • Few

• There's a lot of projection that if you're in service then you shouldn't look good. I'm no different from anybody else. I like clothes, I like shoes, I like to go have nice dinners, I like to dance. Just because I've dedicated myself to serving women, why do you think I need to sacrifice myself?

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Good
  • Different
  • Women

• I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Just
  • Union
  • Square

• People try to change too much at once and it becomes overwhelming, and they end up falling off the program. So gradually changing bad habits makes much more of a difference than trying to change them all at once.

  

  Ian K. Smith
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• Writers are so important.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Important
  • Writers

• Any director, if you really ask them, will tell you that the toughest thing to do is like a dinner table or a dialogue scene, because you need to keep that electricity maintained throughout the course of the film.

  

  Gary Ross
  • Dinner
  • Electricity
  • Table

• I love punching the ceiling with my fists when I'm lost or I can't find a parking space.

  

  Laura Kightlinger
  • Lost
  • Space
  • Find

• I found L.A. much less responsive to the name Juilliard than New York was. In New York, that name actually means something. People will look up from their desks when you walk in. In L.A. it's, 'Oh yeah, that's a music school. What do you play?'

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• If most women are looking for security, I think men look for adventure.

  

  Vincent Cassel
  • Men
  • Women
  • Adventure

• Sadly, black people disassociate ourselves from the things which make us who we are, identifying them as lesser, or inferior. It's a form of self hate. So, with reckless abandon, we strive to be like the majority.

  

  Nate Parker
  • People
  • Black
  • Hate

• For many families, gift-giving is a major source of stress - the relentless commercialism, the whining demands, the financial pressure.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Giving
  • Financial
  • Stress

• Dartmouth is such a special college with its rich history, dedicated student body, and, as I've been learning more recently, colorful customs.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • History
  • College
  • Learning

• The government that's strong enough to give you what you want by taking it from someone else is strong enough to take everything you have and give it to someone else.

  

  Harry Browne
  • Strong

• I love the music from Nat King Cole, BB King, Albert King... When I think of it, I wouldn't mind being renamed Angus King.

  

  Angus Young
  • Music
  • Mind
  • King

• Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Women
  • Marriage
  • Sex

• Ninety percent of them artists in general are forgotten ten minutes after they’re dead.

  

  Edward Hopper

• Don't be confused that my interest in religion, faith, and spirituality is driven by any sense of faith or spirituality of my own.

  

  Peter Jennings
  • Faith
  • Confused

• I was still in school at the time and Cab was very popular and everybody was doing Cab Calloway so I did.

  

  Billy Eckstine
  • Time
  • School
  • Popular

• I grew up poor. I never had any money. I was a hobo, you know, ride the freights.

  

  Art Linkletter
  • Up
  • Money

• In 'The Bourne Identity,' I wanted to give the audience the feeling of being in the car with Jason Bourne, not just watching him drive but be in the car with him, and 'The Wall' is the continuation of that immersive filmmaking style. Where you're trapped behind the wall with Aaron Taylor-Johnson - for better or worse, you're trapped there with him.

  

  Doug Liman
  • Feeling
  • Style
  • Car

• The president [Barack Obama] understands that the country's very concerned about [terrorism] issue. And I think what you're going to hear from him is a discussion about what government's doing to ensure all of our highest priority, the protection of the American people.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Country

• Language is the expression of ideas, and if the people of one country cannot preserve an identity of ideas they cannot retain an identity of language.

  

  Noah Webster
  • Country
  • Language
  • Identity