Bruffee And Conversation Quotes & Sayings

Semantics ... is a sober and modest discipline which has no pretensions of being a universal patent-medicine for all the ills and diseases of mankind, whether imaginary or real. You will not find in semantics any remedy for decayed teeth or illusions of grandeur or class conflict. Nor is semantics a device for establishing that everyone except the speaker and his friends is speaking nonsense — Alfred Tarski

We stopped looking for the monsters under our bed when we realized they were in us. — Me

But that initial, comet-blazing-across-the-sky, Big Idea is only the beginning. Each book is composed of a mosaic of thousands of little ideas, ideas that invariably come to me at two in the morning when my alarm is set for seven. — Lauren Willig

There was a DJ who stayed up for eleven days straight, the longest recorded period of time anyone has ever gone without sleep, and he started playing nothing by Phil Collins, and that's how they knew it was time to call the ambulance. — Meg Cabot

A family of ten children will be always called a fine family, where there are heads and arms and legs enough for the number. — Jane Austen

When Buddy played, he played all out, all the time. It was a wonder he didn't keel over and die before he did. — Al Hirt

Doing Shakespeare once is not fair to the play. I have been in Shakespeare plays when it's not until the last two or three performances when I even understand certain things. In the old days star actors would travel the world doing the same parts over and over again. — Al Pacino

We actually tried to put in [Kung Fu Panda 3] all the things we wanted to put into the first two films. We're all the same people who've been working on the other films and we all had things we couldn't do, and had to leave on the table. We just couldn't achieve them before. This time we have multiple new environments and different styles of animation. — Jennifer Yuh Nelson

Increasing public awareness of risks of nuclear conflict is the core element of any successful nuclear-weapons-free world strategy. — Amit Ray

I can think of ten good reasons to never let go of a dime, boy. — Mr. Krabs

As the state's chief law enforcement officer, it's my job to see that perpetrators of fraud are brought to justice. — Eric Schneiderman