Professor Jonathan Jansen Quotes & Sayings

It's totally mistaken to suppose that an armed escort is going to give a journalist any protection - on the contrary, journalists who turn up surrounded by armed personnel are just turning themselves into targets and in even worse danger. — Kate Adie

It was even before he left Earth that he first thought of it as a planet, like any other, not particularly his own. — Orson Scott Card

I make mistakes. That's what I do. I
speak without thinking, I act without
knowing. I drink so much that I can
barely walk ... I'm a fantastic lover
though, and an amazing friend. God
knows I mean well. — Candace Bushnell

People tell me an Olympic medal is a life-changing event. Except I don't even think about the medal unless someone asks about it. — Mikaela Shiffrin

Holy hug is a soft kiss. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The cognitive difference between believing that a proposition is true (which requires no work beyond understanding it) and believing that it is false (which requires adding and remembering a mental tag) has enormous implications for a writer. The most obvious is that a negative statement such as The king is not dead is harder on the reader than an affirmative one like The king is alive.20 Every negation requires mental homework, and when a sentence contains many of them the reader can be overwhelmed. Even worse, a sentence can have more negations than you think it does. — Steven Pinker

A serpent is a serpent, and none the less a viper, because it is nestled in the bosom of an honest-hearted man. — Martin Delany