14 quotes found
“There are some who are born with talents and there are some who develop them in the form of skills. I am a part of the latter." - Neetu Sugandh!”
“I have read like a man on fire my whole life because the genius of English teachers touched me with the dazzling beauty of language.”
“Vn Uoc decided that she too would get to know the book inside out. And something miraculous happened when they were about a quarter of the way through reading it. After weeks of ploughing and hesit...”
“And yet, as you all know, joining humanity is never a simple matter. By beginning to live the same temporality as Westerners, the Japanese now had to live two temporalities simultaneously. On the o...”
“Life is a tiring business indeed.Soy sauce runs out. Milk runs out. Dishwashing detergent runs out. Lancme lipsticksI thought I had stockpiled several years' worthrun out. Dust underneath the dinin...”
“The history of prescriptions about English ... is in part a history of bogus rules, superstitions, half-baked logic, groaningly unhelpful lists, baffling abstract statements, false classifications,...”
“English is capable of defining sentiments that the human nervous system is quite incapable of experiencing.”
“Sergeant Boyle was an Earthling. He was the only Earthling on the expedition. In fact, he was the only creature from the Milky Way. The other members were from all over the place. The expedition wa...”
“Shakespeare was so ahead of his time that people still don't talk that way.”
“I don't like the words 'I'm fine'. My mom tells me those two words are the most-frequently-told lie in the English lenguage.”
“The English Language is my bitch. Or I don't speak it very well. Whatever.”
“If there is method here, it is hard to discern it. Let it be repeated: the use of capitals is a matter not or rules but of taste; but consistency is at least not a mark of bad taste.”
“How are you going do your writings? How can the others understand you through words describing places, sensations, thoughts, feelings, hope, love, separations on a maze of phrases and paragraphs ce...”
“Vân Uoc decided that she too would get to know the book inside out. And something miraculous happened when they were about a quarter of the way through reading it. After weeks of ploughing and hesi...”
