Quotes of: Irregularity Keyword

Night is irregular. What is not done in the daytime becomes possible at night: murder and sex and thought. Simple men are driven to early beds by tomorrow's daytime demands and by fear of the dark, and never dream of the irregular world outside. And ...

The Thurb Revolution

The top 10 verbs in the English language are all irregular, even though irregular verbs make up only 3 per cent of the language.

Erez Lieberman Aiden

He had been thinking of how landscape moulds a language. It was impossible to imagine these hills giving forth anything but the soft syllables of Irish, just as only certain forms of German could be spoken on the high crags of Europe; or Dutch in the...

Portuguese Irregular Verbs

Perfect is boring: Beauty is irregular.

Gloria Steinem

Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dust-cloud of exceptional observations, of occurrences minute and irregular and seldom met with, which it always proves more easy to ignore than to attend to......

William James

It is now clear that major irregularities did not occur.

Baron Hill

But since the middle of the century in particular, the music has become very irregular in rhythm.

Karlheinz Stockhausen

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never certain.

Thomas Otway

The irregular and intimate quality of things made entirely by the human hand.

Willa Cather

My father was slower, but he was severer than my mother, who was quick but light and irregular in discipline.

Lincoln Steffens

Through my music teaching and my not absolutely irregular attendance at church, I became acquainted with the best class of colored people in Jacksonville.

James Weldon Johnson

You wouldn't believe the kind of hate mail I get about my work on irregular verbs.

Steven Pinker

The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.

The Conduct of Life: A Philosophical Reading

—Por supuesto que sí, preciosa. —Su tono era irregular, pero sincero—. Lo eres todo para mí. Te quiero. Te quiero mucho.

Forever with You

They are trying to make me into a fixed star. I am an irregular planet.

Martin Luther

She stops, pauses, turns to the left to glance at some possible threat or irregularity, and then continues to the north. This motion, so intensely human, transcends time.

Mary Leakey

We were all of us alone, kept wrapped up tight by our sins.

Irregular Verbs and Other Stories

Be very careful what you try with that.  I’m not as strong as I should be.” His breath was ragged, and irregular.  “And you are stronger than you know.

Tempus

I am convinced that we as a body must conduct a formal and legitimate debate about election irregularities.

Stephanie Tubbs Jones

I don't think I'm easy to talk about. I've got a very irregular head. And I'm not anything that you think I am anyway.

Syd Barrett

The course of the flight up and down was exceedingly erratic, partly due to the irregularity of the air, and partly to lack of experience in handling this machine. The control of the front rudder was difficult on account of its being balanced too nea...

Orville Wright