L2 Quotes & Sayings

The records I always maintained were there to serve just one purpose - that was to be broken — Tommy Woodcock

On a day like today,
there's no friend like a book. — Laura Purdie Salas

John Marshall Clemens's land purchases and the family's subsequent sales of the land have been only partly documented from independent sources. The extant grants, deeds, and bills of sale are incomplete, but it was also the case that contradictory or inaccurate deeds often led to disputed claims. Orion Clemens referred to one cause of such conflict in a letter to his brother on 7 July 1869, alleging that "Tennessee grants the same land over and over again to different parties" (OC to SLC, 7 July 1869, CU-MARK, quoted in 3? July 1869 to OC, L3, 279 n. 1 [bottom]; for family correspondence on the subject from 1853 to 1870, see L1, L2, L3, and L4). — Mark Twain

That's what I want. Real. No overly theatrical moans and fake-sounding orgasms. — Sophie Brooks

'Jazz Artist of the Century' would have to be a distinctive soloist and ensemble player, a composer, an arranger, a bandleader, and a driver; would have to span all the genres and periods of jazz; would have to have run her own label; [would] possess a deep spirituality, with grace and a sense of humor; and would have to have succeeded against all odds. Who else? Mary Lou Williams. — Dave Douglas

You cannot dig a hole in a different place by digging the same hole deeper — Edward De Bono

Does providing explicit grammatical information during receptive practice have an effect on L2 development? — Robert DeKeyser

I only really watch sport. That's where you see real joy. I don't like watching much else on TV, because it's generally either twisted or sad. — Roger Milla

The world is not something separate from you and me; the world, society, is the relationship that we establish or seek to establish between each other. So you and I are the problem, and not the world, because the world is the projection of ourselves, and to understand the world we must understand ourselves. That world is not separate from us; we are the world, and our problems are the world's problems. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

Personally, I think SmackDown! has to be a little spicier than it is, a little more electrifying than it is. It's got great athletes and they've got great action, they've done some tremendous stuff, but I want it to knock you off the couch when it opens up. And I think we as a group have the ability to do that. — Dusty Rhodes

As I go back and listen, the other girls weren't singing quite like I was. — Wanda Jackson