Dash Quotes

• Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.

  

  Sophocles
  • Know
  • Opinion
  • Dash

• A dash derives from "to dash," to shatter, strike violently, to throw suddenly or violently, hence to throw carelessly in or on, hence to write carelessly or suddenly, to add or insert suddenly or carelessly to or in the page. "To dash" comes from Middle English daschen, itself probably from Scandinavian-compare Danish daske, to beat, to strike. Ultimately the word is-rather obviously-echoic.

  

  Eric Partridge
  • Strike
  • Violently
  • Dash

• A shadow is hard to seize by the throat and dash to the ground.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Shadow
  • Ground
  • Dash

• I'm a cook, and I'm like, "a dash of this, a pinch of that." I cook with a lot of passion and instinct. So that's the hardest thing - to put an actual recipe together.

  

  Eva Longoria
  • Passion
  • Cook
  • Recipe