Mohanan Nair Quotes & Sayings

Let me endeavor to lead you out of yourself: let me invite you to look unto Jesus. — John Newton

One of the tragic consequences of divorce is that the kids are legally obligated by the courts to spend a fixed amount of time with their dads. In normal families, dads and children happily ignore each other. — C.D. Payne

Appreciating a private room. In a public ward the messy proceeding would have taken place a whole unnecessary hour — John Wyndham

All propaganda is lies, even when one is telling the truth. — George Orwell

The three years following the release of See The Light were a whirlwind. — Jeff Healey

I always wanted to get into the horror genre. I like scary movies. I want to go to the fan shows and sign posters with my head hanging by a thread like a B-movie actress. — Illeana Douglas

Whatever success I've achieved has come from pretty much doing the opposite of what I've been told or expected to do. — Hal Riney

You have to take chances. — Matt Sorum

My wife and I had been trying a while to have a baby. We tried a bunch of things - so we had a surrogate. — Jimmy Fallon

As far as poetry, I don't know if I've ever written any. I've read a lot. I just write and it comes out in different forms and shapes. I don't know if I'm any good at it I just really go for it and I'm very prolific book wise only because I own the company. No one tells me 'no' around here. — Henry Rollins

Whether or not these ideas alone would solve any of the problems discussed, I look forward to the day when SLA is more widely recognized as the serious and socially responsive discipline I believe it can be. Chapters like this one (unpleasant for writer and assuredly some readers alike) would no longer be needed. One could instead concentrate on the genuine controversies and excitement in SLA and L3A: the roles of nature and nurture; special and general nativism; child-adult differences and the possibility of maturational constraints; cross-linguistic influence; acquisition and socialization; cognitive and social factors; resilience; stabilization; fossilization, and other putative mechanisms and processes in interlanguage change; the feasibility of pedagogical intervention; and, most of all, the development of viable theories. — Michael H. Long