#ram

I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he's made of sugar. ↗

— George Saunders

#character #drama #feel #foster #half

You don't want to be that parent - the one who dresses his kid in a cloth sack when all the other kids are in Armani cloth sacks - especially in a time like ours, when materialism is not only rampant and ascendant but is fast becoming the only game in town. ↗

— George Saunders

#ascendant #becoming #cloth #dresses #especially

The first of these phases is that of grammar, invented by the Greeks and carried on unchanged by the French. It never had any philosophical view of a language as such. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

#carried #first #french #grammar #greeks

In general, the philological movement opened up countless sources relevant to linguistic issues, treating them in quite a different spirit from traditional grammar; for instance, the study of inscriptions and their language. But not yet in the spirit of linguistics. ↗

— Ferdinand de Saussure

#different #general #grammar #inscriptions #instance

Be able to correctly pronounce the words you would like to speak and have excellent spoken grammar. ↗

— Marilyn vos Savant

#correctly #excellent #grammar #like #pronounce

In real life, events seem much less dramatic. ↗

— Jessica Savitch

#events #less #life #much #real

Through educational programming, Jewish American History Month will help raise the awareness of a people, their history and contributions. It will help combat anti-Semitism, a phenomenon that is on the rise and that unfortunately still exists in our Nation. ↗

— Jan Schakowsky

#american history #anti-semitism #awareness #combat #contributions

What Clinton severed with his welfare reform was the obligation of the federal government to step in when the states failed and to monitor these programs. ↗

— Robert Scheer

#failed #federal #federal government #government #his

I played comedies and dramas. ↗

— William Shatner

#dramas #i #played

Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days. ↗

— Wally Schirra

#apollo #breaking #days #during #keep