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german-language years awful
A gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years. Mark Twain
german-language language charmed
How charmed I am when I overhear a German word which I understand!
german-language awful toothache
In early times some sufferer had to sit up with a toothache, and he put in the time inventing the German language.
german-language years down-and
My philological studies have satisfied me that a gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years. It seems manifest, then, that the latter tongue ought to be trimmed down and repaired. If it is to remain as it is, it ought to be gently and reverently set aside among the dead languages, for only the dead have time to learn it.
german-language giving awful
Never knew before what eternity was made for. It is to give some of us a chance to learn German.
german-language language speak
The German language speaks Being, while all the others merely speak of Being. Martin Heidegger
german-language language organs
The German language is the organ among the languages. Jean Paul
german-language bumblebees literature
I taught principally German language and literature at Eton. But any master with private pupils must be prepared to teach anything they ask for. That can be as diverse as the early paintings of Salvador Dali or how bumblebees manage to fly. John le Carre
german-language littles today
Heinrich Heine so loosened the corsets of the German language that today every little salesman can fondle her breasts. Karl Kraus
giving missing way
There is a certain way of being human that is my way. I am called upon to live my life in this way, and not in imitation of anyone else's life. But this notion gives a new importance to being true to myself. If I am not, I miss the point of my life; I miss what being human is for me. Charles Taylor
giving important different
Our lives are stories, and the stories we have to give to each other are the most important. No one has a story too small and all are of equal stature. We each tell them in different ways, through different mediums—and if we care about each other, we'll take the time to listen. Charles de Lint
giving tea cups
My dear if you could give me a cup of tea to clear my muddle of a head I should better understand your affairs. Charles Dickens
giving joy cry
Give me a moment, because I like to cry for joy. It's so delicious, John dear, to cry for joy.
giving may novelty
Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve; we may give somewhat of novelty to that which was old, condensation to that which was diffuse, perspicuity to that which was obscure, and currency to that which was recondite. Charles Caleb Colton
giving enemy prudent
If you are under obligations to many, it is prudent to postpone the recompensing of one, until it be in your power to remunerate all; otherwise you will make more enemies by what you give, than by what you withhold.
giving credit world
Instead of exhibiting talent in the hope that the world would forgive their eccentricities, they have exhibited only their eccentricities, in the hope that the world would give them credit for talent.
giving opponents talent
He that gives a portion of his time and talent to the investigation of mathematical truth, will come to all other questions with a decided advantage over his opponents.
giving-up deep-water sea
Black are the brooding clouds and troubled the deep waters, when the Sea of Thought, first heaving from a calm, gives up its Dead
awful history water
We know an awful lot about the history of water on Mars, Bruce Jakosky
awful way showing-up
I would go to work on the show and I felt awful every day, that's not the way it was. ... I felt like some kind of prostitute or something. If I feel so bad, why keep on showing up to this place? I'm going to Africa. The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching. Dave Chappelle
awful god playing
We started playing on Marty's kid's stuff. God, it was an awful noise!
awful built era society workers
We're in a society where an awful lot of the institutions we have were built for a different era, an era where we had 16 workers for every retiree.
awful decide mansion money talking
We're talking about an awful lot of money here to get the mansion in shape. It is up to you to decide what you want to do.
awful love proper telling
I love having my cards read - if you go to a proper place, they wouldn't dream of telling you anything awful that is going to happen. Helen George
awful excuse bigs
It's just a big excuse to say awful things. Louis C. K.
awful cram stuff
We've got an awful lot of stuff to cram in. Jim Calhoun
awful next
We've got an awful lot going on next week.