"The Da Vinci Code may well be the only novel ever written that begins with the word 'renowned'... I think what enabled the first word to tip me off that I was about to spend a number of hours in the company of one of the worst prose stylists in the history of literature was this. Putting curriculum vitae details into complex modifiers on proper names or definite descriptions is what you do in journalistic stories about deaths; you just don't do it in describing an event in a narrative... Why did I keep reading? Because London Heathrow is a long way from San Francisco International."

-- Geoffrey K. Pullum

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“We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives.”
“We must win the common people in every corner. This will be obtained chiefly by means of the schools, and by open, hearty behavior, show, condescension, popularity, and toleration of their prejudices, which we shall at leisure root out and dispel.”
“There is a “yoga body” aesthetic, which is long and sinewy. I am curvy. I get praised on a regular basis, with people telling me, “Wow, you're so brave,” simply for showing my curvy body. Being brave is going to war; being curvy is not brave. We need to be careful with how we use our words.”

Source : "Kathryn Budig on Self-Discovery". Yoga Journal Interview, www.yogajournal.com. September 8, 2014.
“We are facing a generation of young singers who are much more diminutive in their approach to singing.”
“If you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?”

Source : Brian W. Kernighan, P. J. Plauger (1978). “The Elements of Programming Style”, Computing McGraw-Hill
“First and foremost, you've got to make yourself happy. Essentially being who you are is the most important thing. When you're after truth, happiness always comes.”

Source : "Nadia G. Dishes On Her Hunger for Life". Interview with Dustin Fitzharris, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 17, 2012.
“From now on you must strive to cut out unnecessary movement. Waste in movement is wrong and will get you killed.”
“People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being. Storytelling is a form of history, of immortality too. It goes from one generation to another. -Studs Terkel”

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