Life Quote by Neil Leckman

“A perfectly tuned conversation is a vision of sanity--a ratification of one's way of being human and one's way in the world.”

— Deborah Tannen

“Most people, on listening to a string of nonsense, will tend to doubt their own sanity before they realize that the person who is…

— Neal Stephenson

“Still flutters there, the sole unquiet thing. Methinks, its motion in this hush of nature Gives it dim sympathies with me who live, Making…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“We have an odd relationship with words. We learn a few when we are small, throughout our lives we collect others through education, conversation,…

— José Saramago

“When your mind is free of the incessant chatter from our inner critics, we are better able to attend to being our most authentic…

— Laurie J. Beck

“There are days when you wonder why these wretched old tatters of paper run my life. It's just leftover scraps from vanished lives, right?…

— Dana Cameron

Pedantry crams our heads with learned lumber and takes out our brains to make room for it.

— Charles Caleb Colton

“There arises from a bad and inapt formation of words, a wonderful obstruction to the mind.”

— Francis Bacon

“We may talk lightly but never carelessly. We keep at bay the flow of common, ignorant thought which runs its damaging course through the…

— Donna Goddard

Pedantry, in the common acceptation of the word, means an absurd ostentation of learning, and stiffness of phraseology, proceeding from a misguided knowledge of…

— Henry Mackenzie

We apply the language that is comforting and comfortable and familiar in order to grasp that which confuses and scares us. That is the…

— Aleksandar Hemon

“Things begin, things end. Just when we seem to arrive at a quiet place, we are swept up, suddenly, between the body's smoothe, functioning…

— Carol Shields