06/30/09

My theory is that if you look confident you can pull off anything - even if you have no clue what you're doing. -Jessica Alba

06/29/09

Detail makes the difference between boring and terrific writing. It’s the difference between a pencil sketch and a lush oil painting. As a writer, words are your paint. Use all the colors. -Rhys Alexander

06/26/09

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be. -Douglas Adams

06/25/09

You owe reality nothing and the truth of your feelings everything. -Richard Hugo

06/24/09

The first thing to realize is that English, especially American English, is a mongrel tongue that often as not defies all logic. It's also changing and evolving, which infuriates sticks-in-the-mud like me, who would prefer rigid rules that never vary. -Craig Smith

06/23/09

Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task. -Haim Ginott

06/22/09

Some veteran teachers haven't really taught thirty years--they have taught one year thirty times. -Art Belliveau

06/19/09

We die.  That may be the meaning of life.  But we do language.  That may be the measure of our lives. -Toni Morrison

06/18/09

Truth never damages a cause that is just. -Mahatma Gandhi

06/17/09

All high truth is poetry. Take the results of science: they glow with beauty, cold and hard as are the methods of reaching them. -Charles Buxton

06/16/09

Some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity. -Gilda Radner

06/15/09

He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it. -Dante Alighieri