"Pedantry is the dotage of knowledge."

--

Source : 'Anatomy of Bibliomania' (1930) vol. 1, p. 150

Holbrook Jackson

#Scholarship Quotes #Pedantry Quotes

“Because of its independence of surface limitations and its superior speed the airplane is the offensive weapon par excellence.”

Source : General Giulio Douhet (2014). “Command Of The Air”, p.32, Pickle Partners Publishing
“LazyTown is about balance. I'm not there yet.”
“Symbol and metaphor are as much a part of the architectural vocabulary as stone and steel.”
“America has become numb to violence because it just drowns in it, day in and day out.”
“You have to be a speedy reader because thereâ€™s so so much to read.”
“Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a stir-fry sizzle, the small talk of clinking measuring spoons, the yeasty scent of rising dough, the painting of flavors onto a pizza before it slides into the oven.”
“The fans were phenomenal. It sounded like Sox Nation out there.”
“Generally my typical books have lots of twists and turns a big surprise ending and then usually another surprise at the end and ideally, as in Garden of Beasts, we get to the very end and we find at the last few pages that there's yet another surprise.”

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