"Language is the primary way we communicate with each other, and we have really strong feelings about what words mean, and about good language and bad. Those things are really based on sort of an agglutination of half-remembered rules from high school or college, and our own personal views on language and the things we grew up saying, the things we grew up being told not to say."

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Source : Source: www.macleans.ca

Kory Stamper

#Strong Quotes #School Quotes #Mean Quotes

“In 1911 the little town of Nakhla in Egypt was the scene of one of the most remarkable events in historym when a chunk of rock fell from the sky and killed a dog. This is the only known canine fatality caused by a cosmic object. Improbably though this encounter was already, its truly extraordinary nature was revealed only decades later when scientists found that the culprit was not a common-or-garden meteorite, but a piece of the planet Mars.”
“Describing Starry Night: Firmament and planets both disappeared, but the mighty breath which gives life to all things and in which all is bound up remained.”
“I feel strongly about showing up and being prepared and not taking the opportunity for granted and being conscientious about my fellow co-workers.”
“My safety and my family's safety are not guaranteed even now.”
“I've never wanted to look like models on the cover of magazines. I represent the majority of women and I'm very proud of that.”

Source : "Adele's Health Crisis and Comeback". People Magazine Interview, people.com. February 8, 2012.
“Markets are imperfect. So you do need regulation, knowing that the regulators are also human.”
“Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement . . . says heaven and earth in one word . . . speaks of himself and his predicament as though for the first time.”

Source : Time, New York, April 3, 1950.
“..The past is only an unreliable memory held in the present. The future is only a projection of our present conceptions. The present itself vanishes as soon as we try to grasp it. So why bother with attempting to establish an illusion of solid ground?..”

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