"I’m wearing out this new Coal Men record. I think it’s masterful start-to-finish. Dave Coleman is one of Americana music’s great songwriters, and I hope this record gets the attention it deserves."

-- Todd Snider

#Men Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Attention Quotes

“I believe that any form of writing exercise is good for you. I also believe that any form of tuition which helps develop your awareness of the different properties, styles, and effects of writing is good for you. It helps you become a better reader, more sensitive to nuance, and a better writer, more sensitive to audience. Texting language is no different from other innovative forms of written expression that have emerged in the past. It is a type of language whose communicative strengths and weaknesses need to be appreciated.”

Source : David Crystal (2009). “List of cartoons ;The Hype About Texting ;How Weird is Texting? ;What is Distinctive About it? ;Why do They do it? ;Who Texts? ;What do They Text About? ;How do Other Languages do it? ;Why all the Fuss? ;Glossary ;Appendix ;Index”, p.158, Oxford University Press
“Used to move so much, every time the chickens saw the team put in the wagon, they'd lie down on their backs and hold their legs up to be tied!”
“There is no dealing with great sorrow as if it were under the control of our wills. It is a terrible phenomenon, whose laws we must study, and to whose conditions we must submit, if we would mitigate it.”

Source : Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1865). “Uncle Silas: A Tale of Bartram-Haugh”, p.166
“Creativity is to think more efficiently.”
“Whoever's job it was to keep the room clean was clearly not an overachiever.”

Source : Steve Hamilton (2007). “Winter of the Wolf Moon: An Alex McKnight Mystery”, p.177, Macmillan
“And, despite the care which she took to look behind her at every moment, she failed to see a shadow which followed her like her own shadow, which stopped when she stopped, which started again when she did and which made no more noise than a well-conducted shadow should.”
“The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.”
“You have to be tough and stick it out, or you wind up being nothing.”

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