Calque Pronunciation Quotes & Sayings

Some colors are very difficult to render, and you must compensate to get the color you want on the screen. — Claude Chabrol

When we can converse with the animals, we will know the change is halfway here. When we can converse with the forest, we will know the change has come. — Tom Robbins

I understand what it is for a woman to want to protect their children and give them the best they can. — Annie Lennox

Before you judge me as some kind of 'anything goes' language heathen, let me just say that I'm not against usage standards. I don't violate them when I want to sound like an educated person, for the same reason I don't wear a bikini to a funeral when I want to look like a respectful person. There are social conventions for the way we do lots of things, and it is to everyone's benefit to be familiar with them. But logic ain't got nothin' to do with it. — Arika Okrent

The struggle to be original hates conformity, but the struggle to be better disregards it, or takes advantage of it to build workable conventions. — Walter Darby Bannard

If you stop and think about it, the form of propulsion used today hasn't changed in over a thousand years ... since the invention of fireworks by the Chinese. — Peter Diamandis

Power abdicates only under stress of counter-power. — Martin Buber

Sir McHotpants Von Grabby Hands — Penny Reid

You've got to be digging it while it's happening 'cause it just might be a one shot deal. — Frank Zappa

Slayer of the winter, art thou here again? O welcome, thou that bring'st the summer nigh! The bitter wind makes not the victory vain. Nor will we mock thee for thy faint blue sky. — William Morris

I don't feel pain cause it's all in the mind,
And what's mines is mines and yours is mine! — Kirk Jones

Low self-confidence can be viewed as a good thing; it reminds us to be confident in Christ! — Stacy Navarro

I urge you to read what you can, when you can, while you can, and enjoy each page as if it were your last - because it might be. — Ken Kilner

The spiritual power in the gospel is denied when we augment or adjusting gospel into no gospel at all. When we doubt the message alone is the power of God for salvation we start adding or subtracting, trusting our own powers of persuasion or presentation. — Matt Chandler