Texas Vocabulary Quotes

#1. Pullum has special vitriol for Elements of Style, which he calls "E. B. White's disgusting and hypocritical revision of William Strunk's little hodgepodge of bad grammar advice and stylistic banalities" or

Robert Lane Greene

#2. Damn it, Honor, what do I do with an Ancient mother-in-law who thinks I'm a bug?" One that had infested the life of Caliane's beloved son.

Nalini Singh

#3. Why, all the greatest magic comes down to blood," said Mak Genggang. "And who knows blood better than a woman?

Zen Cho

#4. I've thought it would be cool to have a baby young. You know, be my road dog - like my dogs, they travel the world - but there's always something you have to give up for success. Everything comes at a cost. Just what are you willing to pay for it?

Serena Williams

#5. From my point of view what I have to do now is appreciate and enjoy what football gave me, but now do something else with the same energy and enthusiasm I gave to football without expecting the same results.

Graeme Le Saux

#6. Malta is a sod of a place.

David Niven

#7. If you're mad at your kid, you can either raise him to be a nose tackle or send him out to play on the freeway. It's about the same.

Bob Golic

#8. Call me Sunshine, pussy spread like the rainbow.

Lil' Kim

#9. of the palace to inform me that Lady Margaret

Philippa Gregory

#10. Men are not naturally faithful creatures. They have an ego that is in constant need of stroking and usually anything in a skirt fits that need. I never feel the need to make a man jealous in retribution for his infidelity. I simply pick up the wine and find a new taster...

Virginia Alison

#11. All sweeping assertions are erroneous.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#12. To learn is to incur surprise-I mean really learning, not just refreshing our memory or adding a new fact. And to invent is to bestow surprise-I mean really inventing, not just innovating what others have done.

John H. Lienhard

#13. The plays he had liked were the one called Measure for Measure, and another one called Macbeth. They were easy to follow, and what happened in them was kind of like what happened in junior high school.

Jane Smiley

#14. I don't know if it's a failure of imagination on my part, but I'm not going to be writing about Paris in the 1800s. I feel like it would come off as just ludicrously uninformed, even if I did a lot of research.

Maria Semple