“My object to venture the suggestion that an important application of phonetics to metrical problems lies in the study of phonetic word-structure.”

Where be bonds to bind the free? All the world was made for me!

Great lands stretching endlessly…

Sun and wind and beat of sea

Listen … With faint dry sound, Like steps of passing ghosts

These be Three silent things: The Falling snow. . . the hour Before the dawn. . . the mouth of one Just dead.

The leaves, frost-crisp’d, break free from the trees And fall.

Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.

There are very few things impossible in themselves; and we do not want means to conquer difficulties so much as application and resolution in the use of means.

Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

The Self has turned out to mean so many things, to mean them so ambiguously, and to be so wavering in its application, that we do not feel encouraged.

The use of a growing array of derivatives and the related application of more-sophisticated approaches to measuring and managing risk are key factors underpinning the greater resilience of our largest financial institutions…

Hitler had a plausible case to argue when he claimed that the Anschluss was only the application of the Wilsonian principle of self-determination.

I dunno when I started writing really. I was, like, filling out applications and stuff real early. Last name first, first name last, sex. ‘occasionally’ , stuff like that. Then I was writing letters, filling out forms, writing on bathroom walls.

Just look at the statistics: Each university has tens of thousands of applications for students who want to be in art school, but they can only accept a few hundred.