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Tieng Anh Vui
"So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause."
Friday, May 10, 2013
Umberto Eco
"The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else."
Sir Julian Huxley
"Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat."
Thursday, May 9, 2013
George Carlin
"Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?"
Alfred Hitchcock
"In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man."
Wednesday, May 8, 2013
Bob Edwards
"When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile."
James Branch Cabell
"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true."
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Logan Pearsall Smith
"The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists in the circulation of their blood."
Monday, May 6, 2013
Quotes about English
"English is the result of Norman men-at-arms attempting to pick up Saxon barmaids and is no more legitimate than any of the other results." H. Beam Piper
"English has a grammar of great simplicity and flexibility." The Story of English
"Fussing about split infinitives is one of the more tiresome pastimes invented by nineteenth century grammarians." Barbara Strang in Modern English Structure
"The English-speaking world may be divided into (1) those who neither know nor care what a split infinitive is; (2) those who do not know, but care very much; (3) those who know and condemn; (4) those who know and approve; and (5) those who know and distinguish...." Fowler's Modern English Usage
"[Someone who uses a multiple negative] spreads as it were a thin layer of negative colouring over the whole sentence instead of confining it to a single place." Otto Jespersen
"The name is misleading, for the preposition to no more belongs to the infinitive as a necessary part of it, than the definite article belongs to the substantive, and no one would think of calling the good man a split substantive." Otto Jespersen, (referring to split infinitives, in Essentials of English Grammar)
"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary." James D. Nicoll
"This is the sort of English up with which I will not put." Winston Churchill
"English has a grammar of great simplicity and flexibility." The Story of English
"Fussing about split infinitives is one of the more tiresome pastimes invented by nineteenth century grammarians." Barbara Strang in Modern English Structure
"The English-speaking world may be divided into (1) those who neither know nor care what a split infinitive is; (2) those who do not know, but care very much; (3) those who know and condemn; (4) those who know and approve; and (5) those who know and distinguish...." Fowler's Modern English Usage
"[Someone who uses a multiple negative] spreads as it were a thin layer of negative colouring over the whole sentence instead of confining it to a single place." Otto Jespersen
"The name is misleading, for the preposition to no more belongs to the infinitive as a necessary part of it, than the definite article belongs to the substantive, and no one would think of calling the good man a split substantive." Otto Jespersen, (referring to split infinitives, in Essentials of English Grammar)
"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary." James D. Nicoll
"This is the sort of English up with which I will not put." Winston Churchill
TEWS: To cook the books: 6 May 13
Neil is cooking an unusual meal in the BBC Learning English kitchen. Would you like to eat a book?
Listen : http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/worldservice/tae/tae_20130506-1200a.mp3
Nikola Tesla
"Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality."
Sunday, May 5, 2013
Jeph Jacques
"That's what college is for - getting as many bad decisions as possible out of the way before you're forced into the real world. I keep a checklist of 'em on the wall in my room."
Robert Jackson
"The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish."
Edward Young
"Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, /And think they grow immortal as they quote."
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