Verbal Roots Beginning

Famous quotes containing the words verbal, roots and/or beginning:

“A verbal contract isn’t worth the paper it is written on.”
—Samuel Goldwyn (1882–1974)

“Einstein is not ... merely an artist in his moments of leisure and play, as a great statesman may play golf or a great soldier grow orchids. He retains the same attitude in the whole of his work. He traces science to its roots in emotion, which is exactly where art is also rooted.”
—Havelock Ellis (1859–1939)

“You know that the beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time at which the character is being framed.”
—Plato (5th century B.C.)