#am

Some minds, at some point, discover that they can not make sense of their own predications without attention to grammar, although they do not ordinarily think of what they are doing as an exercise in grammar. ↗

— Richard Mitchell

#thinking #grammar

We learned the seven traditional ways to make words unclear." "Seven? That many? Which was the most effective?" "Poor grammar skills. ↗

— Lita Burke

#fantasy #humor #magic #quest #steampunk

...punctuation marks are the traffic signals of language: they tell us to slow down, notice this, take a detour, and stop. ↗

— Lynne Truss

#punctuation #grammar

You're barely older than me.' 'Than I,' he corrected me with a little smile. ↗

— H.P. Mallory

#grammar-fail #grammar

Never give up, Never surrender!!!!! If you think you can't, then you must, if you must, then you can..Tony Robbins ↗

— Paula V. Hardin

#books #dark #gothic #reading #romance

I’ve long believed that for an award to gain prestige, all it takes is having one famous person win it—even if that one person doesn’t know about the award or the fact that they’ve won it. That’s why last year’s “Albatross Harbor’s Man of the Year Award” went to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. And from all the votes this year (one), it looks like the winner will be me. I’ve already begun writing my acceptance speech. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#funny #man-of-the-year #prestige #sir-arthur-conan-doyle #funny

Wait, Richard Cheney, as in Dick Cheney? You're a vampire named Dick Cheney? Somehow, that makes you seem more evil. ↗

— Molly Harper

#humor #politcal-humor #vampires #funny

That's us," I said smiling brightly. "The Udells." That seemed to wake Roger up a little, and he blinked at me, surprised. "Finally," the clerk muttered. "All right. Names?" he asked, fingers posed over his keyboard. "Oh," I said, "Well. That's... Edmund. And I'm Hillary." Roger glanced over at me, a little more sharply, and I tried to shrug as subtly as possible. ↗

— Morgan Matson

#funny #roger #funny

A politician is a politician whether he's wearing a suit or a funny hat. ↗

— Reza Aslan

#hamid-karzai #politicians #politics #funny

Just at present you only see the tree by the light of the lamp. I wonder when you would ever see the lamp by the light of the tree. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#gabriel-syme #lamp #order #tree #funny