Today is the birthday of the following people:
Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784):
“I never desire to converse
with a man who has written more than he has read.”
and
“Curiosity is, in great and
generous minds, the first passion and the last.”
and
“What is written without effort
is in general read without pleasure.”
and
“Patriotism is the last refuge
of a scoundrel.”
Anna Deveare Smith (1950 - ):
“We spend so much time
bantering about the words when the real open conversations might very well be
our actions. I worry about our rhetoric.”
Steven Pinker (1954 - ):
“Thanks to the redundancy of
language, yxx cxn xndxrstxnd whxt x xm wrxtxng xvxn xf x rxplxcx xll thx vxwxls
wxth xn "x" (t gts lttl hrdr f y dn't vn kn whr th vwls r)”
Jason Sudeikis (1975 - ):
“People are getting cynical
about the news. It doesn't seem like there's one place to watch where you get
the straight dope. You watch the channel that proves your point.”
James Gandolfini (1961 – 2013):
“Good writing will bring you to
places you don't even expect sometimes.”
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