Random Quote
Technology will not replace teachers...teachers who use technology will
probably replace teachers who do not.
---- Ray Clifford
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
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
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
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
---- Isaac Asimov
If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
---- Doug Larson
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
---- Terry Pratchett
Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation.
---- Kin Hubbard
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
---- Leonardo DaVinci (1452-1519)
Drink coffee! Do stupid things faster!
---- unknown
As soon as I buy the moose head, I have to go pick up some KY jelly.
---- Mary Roninette Kowal
The voodoo priest and all his powders were as nothing compared to espresso, cappuccino, and mocha, which are stronger than all the religions of the world combined, and perhaps stronger than the human soul itself.
---- Mark Helprin, Memoir from Antproof Case, 1995
Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
---- Fred Allen
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin
Sleep is a symptom of caffeine deprivation.
---- Author Unknown
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
---- Thomas A. Edison
A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.
---- anonymous
I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later.
---- Mitch Hedberg
To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.
---- Robert Copeland
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?"
---- Kelvin Throop III
No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
---- Sheik Abd-al-Kadir
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
---- Thomas A. Edison
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
---- Galileo Galilei
Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.”
---- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749 -1832)
The least of learning is done in the classrooms
---- Thomas Merton
double punny
This is a followup to my punny post of last week. Just because not everyone here reads language log (and you really should) I thought I would share the following comic strip courtesy of Mark Libermans latest post. Click to enlarge…
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Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Monday Apr 18, 2005 at 10:44 AM
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