“Why is left field the spot where kooky ideas come from? Why not right or center? Well, no one is too sure.”— Victor Mather, nytimes.com
“The ancient Greek term mythos, which yields our English 'myth,' at its root means anything delivered by word of mouth and thus from the start was radically acoustic.”— Walter Ong, amazon.com
“The etymology of the word 'politics' is surprisingly accurate: poly meaning many, and tics meaning small bloodsucking parasites.”— cross_beaux, reddit.com
“Think of those flip books you played with as a kid; take a series of still pictures, shot or drawn in sequence, flip them quickly before your eyes and, voila! The illusion of motion. You have yourself a "motion picture," or a "moving picture." In other words, a moving-picturey. Better yet, a "movie.…”— Craig Benzine, youtube.com
“The word hierarchy comes from the Greek hieros, meaning ‘sacred,’ and arche, meaning ‘rule.”— Caroline Levine, amazon.com
“Failure is not final. It carries no judgment and yields no conclusions. The word comes from the Latin fallere, to deceive. Failure is deceit. It aims to defeat us. We must not be fooled. Failure is lesson, not loss; it is gain, not shame.”— Kevin Ashton, amazon.com
“The word wife comes from the Proto-Indo-European weip. Weip means to turn, twist, or wrap. In an alternative etymology, the word wife comes from Proto-etc., ghwibh. Ghwibh means pudenda. Or shame.”— Lauren Groff, amazon.com
“Reason comes from the Latin ratio, derived from the verb reor, ratus sum, which means to calculate and also ratiocinate.”— Hannah Arendt, amazon.com
“The term 'catholic' (katholikos, a Greek word adopted by the Latin Church) does not mean universal (that is, 'inclusive,' 'encompassing,' and hence by implication to some degree bounding) but rather, in its Greek etymology, kata + holos, through-the-whole, outgoing, expansive.”— Walter Ong, amazon.com