Jeany Sparks Quotes

#1. The truth of the matter is that about 99 percent of teaching is making the students feel interestedin the material. Then the other 1 percent has to do with your methods. And that's not just true of languages. It's true of every subject.

Noam Chomsky

#2. Thank you, I thought fervently. Thank you, Slavic forebears, ye heavily into consonants. Ye fans of high-scoring Scrabble tiles. Ye who boldly dropped z's where no z's had been dropped before. I appreciate it.

Kate Hattemer

#3. In 1736, Bakhchisaray had been burned to the ground by the Russians, and when Catherine II's army completed the conquest of the peninsula in 1783, the last khan, Sahin Giray, took refuge in Turkey, where he was eventually executed.

Tim Cope

#4. Percy Bysshe (the only poet named for the sound of a match hitting water),

Bill Bryson

#5. I would then go on to say that Homer, as we now know, was working in what they call an oral tradition.

Robert Fitzgerald

#6. In the long run, the greatest weapon of mass destruction is stupidity.

Thomas Sowell