Pedante Translation Quotes & Sayings

If, when reading and walking at the same time, he bumped into a lamppost, he would apologize and check that the lamppost was unhurt. — Katherine Rundell

As the tissues of the body fester and rot under X rays, so under the sun fester and rot Anglo-Saxonism and Teutonism and Scandinavianism if left too long beneath its influence. — Compton Mackenzie

Richard Lewis is the master at taking a joke that he's told a million times in a row in the past year, on the road, and making it look like he's pulling it out of thin air. — Artie Lange

Old age is catching up with me, or am I catching up with it? — Stanley Victor Paskavich

The dumping of the mentally ill, full of these new psychiatric drugs, into the streets is a scandal. It's been carried furthest in New York, where whole sections of the decayed Upper West Side are being filled with pensioners and psychotic patients on stelazine, lithium carbonate, and everything else under the sun. They can't diagnose the patient, so they give him the whole psychiatric pharmacopoeia at once, and he walks around in a psychotic trance beautifully painted all over with petrochemicals. — Kenneth Rexroth

Like a proper gentleman, the good captain never made mention of the undergarment murder. — Gail Carriger

Not everybody is perfect, and I don't think we should be looking for perfect people. — Simon Cowell

From your "due date" calendar, write down a weekly to-do list of twenty or fewer key items. Each night, create the next day's daily to-do list from the items on the weekly to-do list. Keep it to five to ten items. Try not to add to the daily list once you've made it unless it involves some unanticipated but important item (you don't want to start creating endless lists). Try to avoid swapping out items on your list. — Barbara Oakley