There is really only one way to learn good writing: good reading and extensive writing and revising.

Thousands of miles from Georgia, beginning that night in England, my dad became a foreign-language speaker to me – and I was utterly charmed by it. I found the foreigner in myself.

Arguments about language are usually arguments about politics, disguised and channeled through one of our most distinctive markers of identity.

Yesterday's abomination is today's rule.

If you look at the historical record, you will find that language has always been in decline. Which means, really, and it never has.

Too many people are too angry about language too much of the time. This time could be better spent listening, learning, and enjoying the vast variety of human language around them.

I'd start to explain with the outward sheepish and inner pride of the nerd.

His captivating speech came not from his grammar or vocabulary but from the joy he took in wielding them well.

A clever person solves a problem

There is no cure for narrowness of mind.

The great dream merchant Disney was a success because make-believe was what everyone seemed to need in a spiritually empty land.

We have a president[Barack Obama] who doesn't have a clue. I would say he's incompetent, but I don't want to do that because that's not nice.

The Power which creates and sustains everything is now creating everything necessary to my happiness.

A poore beauty finds more lovers then husbands.

All real democracy is an attempt like that of a jolly hostess to bring the shy people out.

The teacher loses the position of external boss or dictator but takes on that of leader of group activities

Is my name dorothy? No Then why do u think munchkins could help me?

We come from a generation that wanted to make electronic music accepted, at a time [when] it was not.