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Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
---- J. Robert Oppenheimer
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
---- Pablo Picasso
As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.
---- M. Cartmill
This may be the most interesting blog theme I've ever seen. http://eflgeek.com/index.php Definitely in my top 5 at least.
---- Steve Dembo
The least of learning is done in the classrooms
---- Thomas Merton
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
---- Isaac Newton
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
---- Gail Godwin
Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.
---- Jack Lynch
Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.”
---- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749 -1832)
To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.
---- Robert Copeland
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
---- Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818)
To have another language is to possess a second soul.
---- Charlemagne
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
---- Evan Esar
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
---- Galileo Galilei
A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.
---- anonymous
If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
---- Doug Larson
Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them! How I need them!
I'll have a long beard by the time I read them.
---- Arnold Lobel
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.
---- George Orwell
Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
---- Author Unknown
it's probably not a good idea to underestimate my ability to make an ass out of myself—just when I seem to have it under control, I'll turn around and surprise you.
---- Tenser said the Tensor
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
---- Edward R. Murrow
As soon as I buy the moose head, I have to go pick up some KY jelly.
---- Mary Roninette Kowal
"It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'"
---- Sam Levenson
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
Crack the Code
curses to both Zenkimchi (for linking to) & A Geek in Korea for this mind bender of a language puzzle. I’m not good at these kind of puzzles so have a negative chance of cracking the code, but am looking forward to the solution so that I can use this with my students come the Spring semester.My guess is:
You can educate but you can’t teach
Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Wednesday Jan 30, 2008 at 07:41 PM
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Mr D wrote 7 words on Wednesday Jan 30, 2008 at 09:01 PM
You can speak but you can’t talk!
Mr D wrote 13 words on Thursday Jan 31, 2008 at 04:00 AM
Gosh, it looks like that’ll be wrong, after all. I’ll get my coat!
Robin wrote 23 words on Thursday Jan 31, 2008 at 12:05 PM
I’m no good at these games either, but yeah, I’d like to know the rule so I can do this w/ my SS.
Torgodevil wrote 49 words on Friday Feb 1, 2008 at 08:38 AM
You can go out a door, but you can’t go out a window.
You can go to a pool, but you can’t swim.
You can wear a muffler, but not a necktie.
You can giggle, but you can’t laugh.
You can go to Hawaii, but not Iowa.
Get it?
Robin wrote 5 words on Friday Feb 1, 2008 at 08:49 AM
OK, I feel dumb now.
Sean. wrote 16 words on Friday Feb 1, 2008 at 08:59 AM
I knew that it would be something incredibly simple, but I still feel like an idiot.
Jroberts wrote 15 words on Friday Feb 1, 2008 at 11:08 PM
We called this game Behind the Green Glass Door. It even has its own Wiki
Alex Case wrote 66 words on Wednesday Feb 6, 2008 at 06:51 PM
Maybe the only positive thing about going to a strict Christian church in my early teens is now being able to bring loads of games like this into the classroom that they used to use to try and bring some non alcohol, sex and drugs related fun into our lives.
I hadn’t used this one for a couple of years in class, thanks for the reminder.