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