Shermane Franklin Quotes & Sayings

We need more holidays to keep the social studies teachers on track. — Laurie Halse Anderson

The various Social Security privatization schemes, full and partial, would cost both the 'social' - that is the public, cooperative, societal - element of the program and 'security' - the rock-solid income guarantee afforded by the system. It should be rejected. — Ralph Nader

It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth. — Emile Zola

I'm still a farm boy at heart. If I hadn't suffered from asthma as a child, I would be a farmer today. — Jim Davis

A writer edits his thoughts more thoroughly the more readers he has. You can tell I only have two readers, myself included. — Jarod Kintz

One Bagatelle, and I'll raise you a novel," Megan had tweeted back.
"Writing for tea? Now that would have been a solution for the British empire," Laura returned.
"Writing for me," Megan had typed.
"I'll write you a tea fortune."
"No deal. I want a novel. September sounds good. — L.L. Barkat

Time is a powerful friend or adversary. — Pepper D. Basham

I am addicted to the internet and my phone. — Myself

You bite the hand that feeds, Speedy said.
Humans don't like that.
They view it as a sign of ingratitude.
I never asked anyone to feed me.
That doesn't seem to matter to them. — Patrick Jennings

Time seemed to have stretched and become meaningless anyway, its passage blurred by endless drinks and meandering conversations. — Jojo Moyes

But perhaps the most alarming ingredient in a Chicken McNugget is tertiary butylhydroquinone, or TBHQ, an antioxidant derived from petroleum that is either sprayed directly on the nugget or the inside of the box it comes in to "help preserve freshness." According to A Consumer's Dictionary of Food Additives, TBHQ is a form of butane (i.e. lighter fluid) the FDA allows processors to use sparingly in our food: It can comprise no more than 0.02 percent of the oil in a nugget. Which is probably just as well, considering that ingesting a single gram of TBHQ can cause "nausea, vomiting, ringing in the ears, delirium, a sense of suffocation, and collapse." Ingesting five grams of TBHQ can kill. — Michael Pollan