Quotes of Index - somelinesforyou

“ A man's behavior is the index of the man, and his discourse is the index of his understanding. ”

- Ali ibn Abi Talib

“ The mind's cross-indexing puts the best librarian to shame. ”

- Sharon Begley

“ If you don't find it in the index, look very carefully through the entire catalogue. ”

- Sears Roebuck and Co.

“ The pitcher has a blister on the index hand of his pitching finger. ”

- Jerry Coleman

“ Any inaccuracies in this index may be explained by the fact that it has been sorted with the help of a computer. ”

- Donald Knuth

“ If you have any doubts that we live in a society controlled by men, try reading down the index of contributors to a volume of quotations, looking for women's names. ”

- Elaine Gill

“ Whenever I am sent a new book on the lively arts, the first thing I do is look for myself in the index. ”

- Julie Burchill

“ You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine. ”

- Tertullian

“ Yet what are all such gaieties to me whose thoughts are full of indices and surds? ”

- Lewis Carroll

“ There is no index so sure as the voice. ”

- Unknown

“ There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ The face is the index of the mind. ”

- Unknown

“ The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't fight back. ”

- Abigail Van Buren

“ Thanksgiving is a sure index of spiritual health. ”

- Maurice Dametz

“ Man's dreams are an index to his greatness. ”

- Zadok Rabinowitz

“ Exile as a mode of genius no longer exists; in place of Joyce we have the fragments of work appearing in Index on Censorship. ”

- Nadine Gordimer

“ Beauty is the index of a larger fact than wisdom. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

“ All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes. ”

- Cicero

“ The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife. ”

- Cyril Connolly

“ Our memories are card indexes consulted, and then put back in disorder by authorities whom we do not control. ”

- Cyril Connolly

“ The only index by which to judge a government or a way of life is by the quality of the people it acts upon. No matter how noble the objectives of a government, if it blurs decency and kindness, cheapens human life, and breeds ill will and suspicion- it is an evil government. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ I was so lucky. I was very broke and I was taking classes at Lee Strasberg's Institute and I saw a 3 X 5 index card on the bulletin board advertising for college-aged girls for a film. That was Animal House. ”

- Karen Allen

“ If we can dispel the delusion that learning about computers should be an activity of fiddling with array indexes and worrying whether X is an integer or a real number, we can begin to focus on programming as a source of ideas. ”

- Harold Hal Abelson

“ Perhaps nothing is so depressing an index of the inhumanity of the male-supremacist mentality as the fact that the more genial human traits are assigned to the underclass: affection, response to sympathy, kindness, cheerfulness. ”

- Kate Millet

“ And for the citation of so many authors, 'tis the easiest thing in nature. Find out one of these books with an alphabetical index, and without any farther ceremony, remove it verbatim into your own… there are fools enough to be thus drawn into an opinion of the work; at least, such a flourishing train of attendants will give your book a fashionable air, and recommend it for sale. ”

- Miguel de Cervantes
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