No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch of ten chapters. It has never been done. – Mark Twain
Man – a creature made at the end of the weeks work when God was tired. – Mark Twain
No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch of ten chapters. It has never been done. – Mark Twain
Man – a creature made at the end of the weeks work when God was tired. – Mark Twain
It’s spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you’ve got it, you want — oh, you don’t quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so! – Mark Twain
When you cannot get a compliment in any other way pay yourself one. – Mark Twain
Linguists are no different from any other people who spend more than nineteen hours a day pondering the complexities of grammar and its relationship to practically everything else in order to prove that language is so inordinately complicated that it is impossible in principle for people to talk. – Ronald W. Langacker (b.1942), Language and Its Structure, 1973
I grew up in a family that was multifaceted, sexually oriented, and pretty much open to everything. And because I was working, my friends were all adults. I had a tough time going to different schools because people knew me from films and I was the fat child who got beaten up every day. – Drew Barrymore