Veronica > Veronica's Quotes

“You don’t have to be strong enough to do it all at once—no one is. You just have to be strong enough to do one thing. That’s it. Then you rest, and when you’ve regained that strength back, you tackle the next thing.”
― Jenny Hale, Coming Home for Christmas

“But sometimes we have to be brave in order to dig deep and find answers. Even if we're not sure we're going to like the answers.”
― Linda Francis Lee, The Glass Kitchen

“In order to live a life truly worth living you had to have strength in the face of adversity, patience when confronted by challenge, and bravery in the face of fear. As Sandy Portman I had used arrogance in the face of fear, disdain in the face of challenge, and selfishness in the face of adversity.”
― Linda Francis Lee, Emily and Einstein

“No person, whether she is a scientist or a cook, can find success if she doesn’t first believe that she holds power in her hands— not to use over people, but to use for the good of another.”
― Linda Francis Lee, The Glass Kitchen

“Some things are true whether you believe them or not.”
― Linda Francis Lee, The Glass Kitchen

“A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Ill-fitting grammar are like ill-fitting shoes. You can get used to it for a bit, but then one day your toes fall off and you can't walk to the bathroom.”
― Jasper Fforde, One of Our Thursdays Is Missing

“I don't know the rules of grammar. If you're trying to persuade people to do something, or buy something, it seems to me you should use their language.”
― David Ogilvy

“Grammar is the greatest joy in life, don't you find?”
― Lemony Snicket, The Wide Window

“Let me just acknowlege that the function of grammar is to make language as efficent and clear and transparent as possible. But if we’re all constantly correcting each other’s grammar and being really snotty about it, then people stop talking because they start to be petrified that they’re going to make some sort of terrible grammatical error and that’s precisely the opposite of what grammar is supposed to do, which is to facilitate clear communication.”
― John Green

“Each letter of the alphabet is a steadfast loyal soldier in a great army of words, sentences, paragraphs, and stories. One letter falls, and the entire language falters.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“You'd think that the ability to write lucid prose would be the bottom line for any publishing novelist, but it is not so... You would expect that proofreaders and copy editors would pick this sort of stuff up even if the writers of such embarrassing English do not, but many of them seem as illiterate as the writers they are trying to bail out.”
― Stephen King, Danse Macabre