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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
Technology will not replace teachers...teachers who use technology will
probably replace teachers who do not.
---- Ray Clifford
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
---- Abigail Adams (1744 - 1818)
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
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
---- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Drink coffee! Do stupid things faster!
---- unknown
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
---- Arnold Toynbee
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
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
---- Thomas A. Edison
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
---- Isaac Asimov
No one can understand the truth until he drinks of coffee's frothy goodness.
---- Sheik Abd-al-Kadir
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
---- Thomas A. Edison
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
---- Robert Frost
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
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 soon as I buy the moose head, I have to go pick up some KY jelly.
---- Mary Roninette Kowal
One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
---- Edward Abbey
Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
---- Fred Allen
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
---- John Ciardi
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
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
---- Gail Godwin
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
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
---- Terry Pratchett
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.
---- Isaac Newton
Krashen on “English Villages”
In THe Taipei Times Dr. Stephen Krashen talks about the English Villages in Korea. Krashens letter is short, but also very good. I highly recommend reading it. I have previously discussed English Villages here and here.
Hat tip to Scott Sommers.




