"Nobody knows everything-one of the pleasures of language is that there is always something new to learn-and everybody makes mistakes."

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Source : Mary Norris (2015). “Between You & Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen”, p.15, W. W. Norton & Company

Mary Norris

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“I am Saâ€™kagÃ© a lord of shadows. I claim the shadows that the Shadow may not. I am the strong arm of deliverance. I am Shadowstrider. I am the Scales of Justice. I am He-Who-Guards-Unseen. I am Shadowslayer. I am Nameless. The coranti shall not go unpunished. My way is hard but I serve unbroken. In ignobility nobility. In shame honor. In darkness light. I will do justice and love mercy. Until the king returns I shall not lay my burden down.â€ --(Durzo Blint to Jorses Alkestes, quoted to Skylar at the edge of Ezra's Forest.)”
“About the time you think you are getting to know the moves in this game, someone comes along and does everything but undress you on the basketball floor. Standing there under the basket with your hands cupped - and finding that you dont have the ball in them - is a great little old leveler.”
“There are things about some professional athletes that I cannot stand-the pretense, the egos, the pomposity, the greed.”
“We have to start calling sexual harassment out because only then can we start to make progress on it.”

Source : Source: www.cosmopolitan.com
“September fattens on vines. Roses flake from the wall. The smoke of harmless fires drifts to my eyes. This is plenty. This is more than enough.”

Source : Geoffrey Hill (2013). “Broken Hierarchies: Poems 1952-2012”, p.44, Oxford University Press
“God didn't give me the ability to play the piano, or paint a picture or have compassion. But... he did give me the ability to crack a walnut with my hoo-ha.”
“To lose something in the will of God is to find something better.”
“I had made a vow to never stay in my home state to play, I wanted to go as far East Coast as possible, more or less to get away from my family life. I ended up staying in my home state and fell in love with it. I ended up having a beautiful relationship with my family over time and it was the best decision I've ever made.”

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