#quaint

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #quaint




I am said to be difficult of acquaintance, unwilling to meet any one half way, and showing a social manner which is easy, not diffident, but formal and unresponsive, tending constantly to hold people off.


Albert J. Nock


#am #any #constantly #difficult #easy

Today, with a recording, he can hear the thing enough times until he really gets acquainted with the language, and then he can begin to make an estimate of the intrinsic, aesthetic value of that piece of music.


Leo Ornstein


#aesthetic #begin #enough #estimate #gets

Harmony is an obscure and difficult musical science, but most difficult to those who are not acquainted with the Greek language; because it is necessary to use many Greek words to which there are none corresponding in Latin.


Marcus V. Pollio


#because #corresponding #difficult #greek #harmony

Medieval justice was a quaint thing.


Frederick Pollock


#medieval #quaint #thing

When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.


Jackson Pollock


#acquainted #after #aware #been #changes

Looking through the list of earlier Nobel laureates, I note a large number with whom I became acquainted and with whom I interacted during those years as they passed through Cambridge.


John Pople


#became #cambridge #during #earlier #i

Before I got through high school I had attended 22 different schools. In the time before I was well acquainted with the latest school, I would amuse myself by drawing and found that I was pretty good at it.


Marc Davis


#amuse #attended #before #different #different schools

You are undoubtedly acquainted with my Reputation, and as for my Penmanship it must speak for itself; this is to desire your Approbation to keep a public school.


Eli Whitney


#approbation #desire #itself #keep #must

I see the friends I made over the years who have become family today, people I became acquainted with who have achieved so much in their lives. They taught me something with each meeting.


Akshay Kumar


#acquainted #became #become #each #family

With the growing reliance on social media, we no longer search for news, or the products and services we wish to buy. Instead they are being pushed to us by friends, acquaintances and business colleagues.


Erik Qualman


#being #business #buy #colleagues #friends