Quotes of: Latin-women Keyword

He did look like an Italian of the worse type, though Vic didn't think he was, and it was an insult to the Italian race to assume that he was. He resembled no particular race, only an amalgamation of the worst elements of various Latin peoples. He lo...

Deep Water

If Jupiter was in the ascendant when you were born, you are of a jovial disposition; and if you're not jovial but miserable and saturnine that's a disaster, because a disaster is a dis-astro, or misplaced planet. Disaster is Latin for ill-starred. Th...

The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language

One day the English language is going to perish. The easy spokenness of it will perish and go black and crumbly — maybe — and it will become a language like Latin that learned people learn. And scholars will write studies of and and and and and ,...

The Anthologist

Writers in what we now call the Middle English period (late twelfth century to 1485) did not necessarily always write in English. The language was in a state of flux: attempts were made to assert the French language, to keep down the local language, ...

The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and Ireland

Christian monks and nuns were, in effect, the guardians of culture, as they were virtually the only people who could read and write before the fourteenth century. It is interesting therefore that most of the native English culture they preserved is n...

The Routledge History of Literature in English: Britain and Ireland

The city defeated him. It refused to be bent into shape; it stayed a willful, sprawling, sinful place. It even told him as much. When he walked through the gutted wreck of old Saint Paul's, he tripped and fell over a piece of rubble -- a tombstone. W...

The Somnambulist

Mr. Fox: [Mr. Fox, Ash, Kris, and Kylie are on a motorcycle, and Mr. Fox refers to a quadruped wolf at the edge of a snowy forest] I don't think he speaks English or Latin. Mr. Fox: [loudly, to the wolf] Pensez-vous que l'hiver sera rude? Mr. Fox: [a...

Fantastic Mr. Fox

Free will is the cutting edge of Creation, don’t you see? The word spontaneity derives from the Latin sponte, meaning ‘of one’s free will.’ Spontaneity is the impulse, the purest expression of freedom, and the impulse wants to do whatever it ...

Tony Vigorito

Interestingly, the word 'person' did not originally refer to the individual in the way we tend to use it today. Instead, 'person' came, via french, from the Latin word 'persona', which referred to the mask worn by tan actor to protray a particular ch...

Love

Boys play with death as though it were a game, cutting their teeth on daggers.

The Gate to Women's Country

Basically, all women are nurturers and healers, and all men are mental patients to varying degrees.

The General's Daughter

What editors are obliged to appear to say that want from women is actually what their want from women.

The Beauty Myth

A majority of women's magazines feature women who do amazing things, but then the article focuses on how she ruined it with her shoes.

Caitlin Moran

It's a very difficult thing for people to accept, seeing women act out anger on the screen. We're more accustomed to seeing men expressing rage and women crying.

Rebecca De Mornay

The musician has the most brothers, and the dancer the most sisters.

HerStory: Fiction Honoring Women's History Month

Men wouldn't lie that much to the women in their life, if the women don’t ask so many questions.

Rainbow - the shades of love

If women are expected to do the same work as men, we must teach them the same things.

The Republic

Most young women do not welcome promiscuous advances. (Either that, or my luck's terrible.)

Memoirs Of A Mangy Lover

Women are the cradles of life. What sort of man tries to break a cradle (Marc)

A Man Of Means

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Nucleus - Power Women: Lead from the Core

The strongest drug for a human being is another human being!

Nucleus - Power Women: Lead from the Core