“I've always loved the flirtatious tango of consonants and vowels, the sturdy dependability of nouns and capricious whimsy of verbs, the strutting pageantry of the adjective and the flitting evanescence of the adverb, all kept safe and orderly by those reliable little policemen, punctuation marks. Wow! Think I got my ass kicked in high school?”
Dennis Miller
“Write with nouns and verbs, not with adjectives and adverbs. The adjectivehasn't been built that can pull a weak or inaccurate noun out of a tightplace.”
William Strunk Jr. E.B. White
“Religion is the surrender of truth to the whimsy of belief.”
Rain Bojangles
“If the sight of the blue skies fills you with joy, if a blade of grass springing up in the fields has power to move you, if the simple things in nature have a message you understand, Rejoice, for your soul is alive.”
Eleanora Duse
“Playing 'Bop' is like playing Scrabble with all the vowels missing”
Duke Ellington
“If we could buy a vowel, I'd feel better. We're stuck with what we are.”
Andy Kennedy
“We've got different plans for Bonds. We're only going to pitch to him in innings that end in vowels.”
Clint Hurdle
