Transparenter Quotes & Sayings

Prescriptive grammar has spread linguistic insecurity like a plague among English speakers for centuries, numbs us to the aesthetic richness of non-standard speech, and distracts us from attending to genuine issues of linguistic style in writing. — John McWhorter

be brisk, be splendid, and be public. — Sarah Orne Jewett

Follow up and follow through until the task is completed, the prize won. — Brian Tracy

Honey lamb, there are a lot of things in this world I feel insecure about. Religion. Our national economic policies. What color socks to wear with a blue suit. But I've got to tell you that my performance in that hotel room last night isn't one of them. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips

And like a wind shall I one day blow amongst them and with my spirit take away their soul's breath: thus my future wills it. — Friedrich Nietzsche