"I have known writers who paid no damned attention whatever to the rules of grammar and rhetoric and somehow made the language behave for them."

-- Red Smith

#Attention Quotes #Language Quotes #Grammar Quotes

“The preacher's task is to declare what God has said, explain the meaning, and establish the implications so that no one will mistake its relevance.”
“The US is responsible for 25 percent of the world's greenhouse gas emissions. It should take responsibility for leading the way.”
“I am only fond of what comes from the heart.”

Source : Martha Washington's letter to Mercy Otis Warren, wife of James Warren, from New York, (December 26, 1789); published in "The life of Washington, in the Form of an Autobiography", Volume 2 (p. 181), 1840.
“It's black women as perpetual sidekick. We need to hear from more women's voices. And it would be nice to see some books geared toward us.”
“Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.”
“Angry people are not always wise.”
“What I do has to be a function of what I can do, not a function of what people ask me to do.”
“I got interested in the American culture war back in 2004, and it's one of the only growth stocks I've ever invested in.”

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