"Several of us linguists at that time would record our own kids, just to get some data. There was some literature on it then, but no day-by-day, blow-by-blow examples. I recorded all my children over the years in some shape or form. It's what linguists do. You don't talk to a linguist without having what you say taken down and used in evidence against you at some point in time."

-- David Crystal

#Children Quotes #Taken Quotes #Kids Quotes

“The woman from the depths of her rags, a waif, a martyr â€” smiled. She must have a divine heart to be so tired and yet smile.”

Source : Henri Barbusse (2005). “The Inferno”, p.152, 1st World Publishing
“To the Chasmites, truth is determined by how well it fits their expectations, and doesn't that sound familiar? ... They have consistently refused to have a god contest, and I fear they will have to encounter the godlet rather forcibly before they believe there is anything there at all.”

Source : "The Visitor". Book by Sheri S. Tepper, 2002.
“You learn more about a person from the people around that person than you do from the person themselves. We all have our own ideas of who we are that may or may not be justified, and you can really find out a heck of a lot more accurately from the people around an individual.”

Source : Interview with TashaR, www.avclub.com. September 30, 2008.
“It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.”
“Wearing nothing but sweats and a sheer coat of lip gloss, she wiggle through her frosted window and jumped six feet to freedom, feeling more charged than a Visa card at Christmas time.”
“I started as a news photographer at the University Of Texas' Daily Texan.”
“When it's football season, I'm all football.”
“I've done all kinds of martial arts. I have my blackbelt in Shorei Ru. I'm doing Wu Shu. I do all kinds of different martial arts.”

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