Pullum Purna Quotes & Sayings

Common Core results finally give families an accurate barometer of whether our kids are mastering the skills they need to succeed in a knowledge-based global economy, early enough that we can intervene. — Wendy Kopp

The step that we are on is only a step to the next place, and no step regardless of how massive is ever a destination. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

A comic should suffer as much over a single line as a man with a hernia would in picking up a heavy barbell. — W.C. Fields

But those days of being too terrified to move or breathe were left behind in my childhood. I've been through too much and it has hardened some primal part of me that no longer panics. — Patricia Cornwell

This is the problem with having a barrier between you and everyone else - you see it, but they don't. They talk to you, but you can't talk back to them. — David Levithan

Mankind, which has always been a part of nature, has reached a point where it is too much for nature to accommodate. — Kobo Abe

The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad. I speak now, of course, in the supposition that the gentle reader has not been abroad, and therefore is not already a consummate ass. If the case be otherwise, I beg his pardon and extend to him the cordial hand of fellowship and call him brother. I shall always delight to meet an ass after my own heart when I have finished my travels. — Mark Twain

Researchers have found again and again that people act as though losses are from two to four times more painful than gains are pleasurable. — Chip Heath

Because I am about to be devoured by poodles," I quip. "Remember me always, my love. — Holly Black

Writing a story bends time and warps reality. It gives the writer prior knowledge in the reader's future... — RO Smit

If hitting an unexpected speed bump with your car equates to the best sex you've had lately, you know your hormones are sending you a signal. — Ellen Phillips