Say it again, Sammie: Spelling and grammar

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Saturday, December 26, 2009

I don't understand why it's such a problem!

This particular work of art (minus my visual commentary) appeared in "Texting Andy Warhol - An Exploration of Writing in Art," which was broadcast Thursday 22 October on the BBC.

"Fiona Banner uses text to provide exacting descriptions and interpretations. In this work, she documented the car chase in the Steve McQueen film Bullitt as she was worried there were no great literary car chases."

Even art needs proofreading. Really.

Saying it again

Gandhi once declared that it was his wife who unwittingly taught him the effectiveness of nonviolence. Who better than women should know that battles can be won without resort to physical strength? Who better than we should know all the power that resides in noncooperation?
~Barbara Deming

If you use violence, you have to sell part of yourself for that violence. Then you are no longer a master of your own struggle.
~César Chávez

If do right, can no defense.
~Mr. Miyagi

All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing? I have no idea. My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there.
~Jalal al-Din Rumi

Batman: "Go back outside and calm the flower children."
Robin: "They'll mob me!"
Batman: "Groovy."

Money alone will not bring happiness. But it is better to cry in a taxi than on a streetcar.
~Marcel Reich-Ranicki

People can be slave ships in shoes.
~Zora Neale Hurston

You don't lose dignity by being a child.
~Alex Trebek