Ellerbrock Lambs Quotes & Sayings

What was a shadow, after all, but a shape in the moving world reduced to a projection of possibilities? — Yoon Ha Lee

It is one of the many ironies of this period that, at a time when the intelligentsia were excoriating Mellon for tax-evasion, and contrasting the smooth-running Soviet planned economy with the breakdown in America, he was secretly exploiting the frantic necessities of the Soviet leaders to form the basis of one of America's most splendid public collections — Paul Johnson

MADDIE: ....it's just me against the world, and it's the loneliest feeling ever. — Ruby Dixon

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one. — Mark Twain

I will only miss school for an engagement if it is going to bring real change. — Malala Yousafzai

To what extent is any given man morally responsible for any given act? We do not know. — Alexis Carrel

An ultimate joint challenge for the biological and the computational sciences is the understanding of the mechanisms of the human brain, and its relationship with the human mind. — Tony Hoare

There seems little or no hope for the adult writer who produces sentences like these: "Her cheeks were thick and smooth and held a healthy natural red color. The heavy lines under them, her jowls, extended to the intersection of her lips and gave her a thick-lipped frown most of the time." The phrase "Her cheeks were thick and smooth" is normal English, but "[Her cheeks] held a healthy natural red color" is elevated, pseudo-poetic. The word "held" faintly hints at personification of "cheeks," and "healthy natural red color" is clunky, stilted, slightly bookish. The second sentence contains similar mistakes. The diction level of "extended to the intersection of her lips" is high and formal, in ferocious conflict with the end of the sentence, which plunges to the colloquial "most of the time. — John Gardner

You can learn a lot when you play in a little town in Holland or Western Australia, and you learn different things than you would learn playing a big city. — Jonathan Richman