"The English language is rather like a monster accordion, stretchable at the whim of the editor, compressible ad lib."

-- Robert Burchfield

#Communication Quotes #Editors Quotes #Monsters Quotes

“Right now, every American is affected by high energy prices. Working families, small businesses and consumers across the country are feeling the pinch with no end in sight.”
“My mom was a ventriloquist and she always was throwing her voice. For ten years I thought the dog was telling me to kill my father.”
“It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena...”

Source : Address at the Sorbonne, Paris, 23 Apr. 1910. Richard M. Nixon quoted this passage in his address to the nation announcing his decision to resign the presidency, 8 Aug. 1974. See Theodore Roosevelt 1; Theodore Roosevelt 2; Theodore Roosevelt 5
“The Greeks used to use the same stories, the same mythology, time after time, different authors. There was no premium placed upon an original story, and indeed, Shakespeare likewise. A lot of people wrote plays about great kings. They didn't expect a brand-new story. It was what that new author made of the old story. It is probably the same now. We disguise it by inventing what seem to be new stories, but they're basically the same story anyway.”
“I and me are always too deeply in conversation.”
“Love is just a feeling of togetherness and openness in your heart....”
“Our presuppositions shape our perspective, our perspective shapes our priorities, and our priorities shape our practice.”
“You have to be stronger than your fears if you want to get anything done in this life.”

Source : Daoud Hari (2008). “The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur”, p.11, Random House

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