"All the words in the English language are divided into nine great classes. These classes are called the Parts of Speech. They are Article, Noun, Adjective, Pronoun, Verb, Adverb, Preposition, Conjunction and Interjection."

-- Joseph Devlin

#Class Quotes #Adjectives Quotes #Verbs Quotes

“The Ady Gil, a Sea Shepherd vessel, it's a fast patrol boat, was sitting still in the water when the Shonan Maru #2 came by, deliberately turned into it, rammed it, cut it in half, sunk it and destroyed it.”
“So many want to be lifted by song and dancing, and this morning it is easy to understand. I write in the sound of chirping birds hidden in the almond trees, the almonds still green and thriving in the foliage.”

Source : Linda Gregg (1991). “Sacraments of Desire”, Graywolf Press
“Once you get that two-way energy thing going, everyone benefits hugely.”
“My so-called failures have been some of my greatest learning tools. I just make sure to fail up.”
“Buddhism teaches that a craving for things outside ourselves causes an unhappy and pointless search for security. It teaches me to stop following every impulse and to learn restraint. Obviously, I lost track of what I was taught.”
“It's not the moutain we conquer but ourselves.”
“Long before the thousand millions are here, the mighty centrifugal tendency, inherent in this stock and strengthened in the United States, will assert itself.”

Source : Josiah Strong (1893). “The New Era: Or, The Coming Kingdom”
“A novel is not a summary of its plot but a collection of instances, of luminous specific details that take us in the direction of the unsaid and unseen.”

Source : Charles Baxter (2007). “The art of subtext: beyond plot”, Graywolf Pr

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