Joscha Quotes & Sayings

Cheryl Strayed is a courageous, gritty, and deceptively elegant writer. — Pam Houston

Over the course of several articles, I will give you the tools to become a sentence connoisseur as well as a sentence artisan. Each of my lessons will give you the insight to appreciate fine sentences and the vocabulary to talk about them. — Constance Hale

Cousins are part of your life so stick with cuz not friends. — Claude Shannon

The quality of a society will be judged by what the least privileged in it achieves. — Robert K. Greenleaf

The secular humanist, although he would never dream of committing the social faux pas of calling a black man a negro, feels perfectly free to castigate Christians and their leaders in any way he likes. — Frank Schaeffer

Knowledge, then, can be dangerous because a rational mind may be compelled to use it in rational ways, allowing malevolent or careless speakers to commandeer our faculties against us. This makes the expressive power of language a mixed blessing: it lets us learn what we want to know, but it also lets us learn what we don't want to know. Language is not just a window into human nature but a fistula: an open wound through which our innards are exposed to an infectious world. It's not surprising that we expect people to sheathe their words in politeness and innuendo and other forms of doublespeak. — Steven Pinker

Well, if a man don't HAVE a chance, then he has to TAKE a chance! — Toni Morrison