Prescriptivist Linguists Quotes

#1. What songwriting does better than almost anything is empathy - it's incredibly empathetic. The reason people sat around in bars when they were bummed out and listened to country songs is because it made them feel better in the long run.

Steve Earle

#2. Restaurant industry sales in 2011 are estimated to have reached a record high of $604 billion, up 3.6 percent from 2010. Restaurant employment grew 1.9 percent in 2011, with some 230,000 jobs added, the strongest gain in five years.

David Sax

#3. Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.

Wole Soyinka

#4. If we're weird onstage, I don't know what you'd call the Tubes.

Freddie Mercury

#5. I absolutely loved my time at 'Brothers & Sisters,' what I learned and everything that went with it. It was an incredibly formative time for me.

Matthew Rhys

#6. You must believe in God, in spite of what the clergy say.

Benjamin Jowett

#7. I'd love to be in the Hall of Fame one day and win Super Bowl rings, or even one ... and stay healthy.

Eric Dickerson

#8. It felt smooth coming off my hands. I felt the laces around the ball. It was just all good.

Chris Copeland

#9. She was probably the best-looking almost-criminal in the history of girls who were about to go to prison.

Sara Shepard