Minces Words Quotes

#1. A good storyteller minces words to entertain or inspire the audience. The politicians and religious leaders do much the same, but for a different purpose - to turn otherwise normal people to nutcases.

Vinko Vrbanic

#2. The idea is to write so that people hear it, and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart." ~Maya Angelou

C.S. Lakin

#3. The most effective reading teachers are teachers who read. According to Morrison, Jacobs, and Swinyard (1999), "Perhaps the most influential teacher behavior to influence students' literacy development is personal reading, both in and out of school" (p. 81).

Donalyn Miller

#4. It is hard to throw off long-established love:
hard, but this you must managed somehow

J.K. Rowling

#5. I can't imagine why a media company views a law preventing the commission of hate speech as a restriction on media freedom, but it is probably similar to how some religious folk view hate speech as being essential to religious freedom.

Christina Engela

#6. The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we may discern some glimpse of truth by long poring on it.

George Berkeley

#7. Self-hatred is sometimes appropriate.

Mason Cooley

#8. CreativeMornings came out of a personal rule of mine that if I keep complaining about something, I need to change it or move on.

Anonymous

#9. Thoale alone knows why suicides are so fond of jumping off cliffs and bridges; they wouldn't if they knew what that trip's like.

Peter F. Hamilton