Usage Spelling Quotes

#1. Language, never forget, is more fashion than science, and matters of usage, spelling and pronunciation tend to wander around like hemlines.

Bill Bryson

#2. Why are bodies so difficult to manage? Why? 'Oh, oh, look at me, I'm a body, I'm going to splurge fat unless you, like, STARVE yourself and go to undignified TORTURE CENTRES and don't eat anything nice or get drunk.' Hate diet.

Helen Fielding

#3. Death is not the end. Death is an ocean on all sides of our lives. Deep and dark and cold, and anything but empty.

Joey Comeau

#4. If you have a clear mind ... you won't have to search for direction. Direction will come to you.

Phil Jackson

#5. The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind.

Oscar Wilde

#6. Do men often tell you you're enchanting?" "No. Men often tell me I hit very hard." Hint, hint.

Ilona Andrews

#7. A developed and decent man cannot be vain without a boundless exactingness towards himself and without despising himself at moments to the point of hatred.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#8. The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.

Arthur Hugh Clough

#9. The past doesn't determine your future unless you carry it with you into the present. Forgiving yourself and others, you free the universe to begin again at any moment.

Marianne Williamson

#10. There should be philosophy and knowledge for the elect, religion and sentimentality for the masses

Christopher Hitchens

#11. It's nice to marry your best friend. It suits me.

Justin Timberlake

#12. This is why we have music, after all. Words cannot always do the work we need them to. Music is there for when words fail us. Finally

Patrick Rothfuss