"Similarly, although we use prepositional phrases when we write, we apparently don't write more effectively when we can label our language in these ways."

-- Lucy Calkins

#Education Quotes #Writing Quotes #Labels Quotes

“What is now in the past was once in the future”

Source : Ramachandra Guha (2011). “India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy”, p.6, Pan Macmillan
“Maybe being oneself is always an acquired taste.”
“Like everyone I slipped into adulthood like a delinquent through the back door.”

Source : Charles Finch (2014). “The Last Enchantments”, p.36, Macmillan
“They (fashion editors) have always been our secret weapon.”
“I always knew Gordon Lightfoot was a really great songwriter, but his stuff even sounds better and better all the time. It's just so really good to me. It's just like that's what should be in a dictionary, you know, next to a really good contempory folk song, is a Gordon Lightfoot song.”
“Some day there will have to be some new rules established about name-calling. I don't mean the routine cursing that goes on between husband and wife, but the naming of defenseless, unsuspecting babies.”
“The only companies that innovate are those who believe that innovation is vital for their future.”
“The most important thing for me was to never, ever, ever deny it. But I didn't really have the courage to talk about it. I was thinking, The people who need to know I'm gay know.”

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