Anlass Veranlassung Quotes & Sayings

Language is changing constantly; printing and modern education have slowed it but have not stopped it. Given all this change, when, exactly, was language PERFECT, in the language pundit's mind? One has the feeling that the decline-mongers would feel rather sheepish has reading any answer. The 1950s? The Edwardian era? The real answer, however rarely expressed, seems to be when Island it as a young person. — Robert Lane Greene

I think the people running climate change denial campaigns are sociopaths. — Lucy Lawless

Granny knew all about bad fortune-telling. It was harder than the real thing. You needed a good imagination. — Terry Pratchett

There is a time to submit and there is a time to outwit. — Ruth Graham

There's something nearly mystical about certain words and phrases that float through our lives. It's computer mysticism. Words that are computer generated to be used on products that might be sold anywhere from Japan to Denmark - words devised to be pronounceable in a hundred languages. And when you detach one of these words from the product it was designed to serve, the words acquires a chantlike quality. — Don DeLillo

For me there is wonder in reading. Some stories take my mind down exciting, winding paths it has never been before. — R.J. Snow