Research shows that those kids who text frequently are more likely to be the most literate and the best spellers, because you have to know how to manipulate language.
Submitting to censorship is to enter the seductive world of 'The Giver': the world where there are no bad words and no bad deeds. But it is also the world where choice has been taken away and reality distorted. And that is the most dangerous world of all.
Never cut what you can untie.
I think bad movies are made around the world, not just in Hollywood. There are as many bad art films in the whole world as there are bad commercial films.
We all have an old knot in the heart we wish to untie.
Works like 'Brave New World' and 'The Handmaiden's Tale' develop their atmosphere from a movement or a revolution, as if the world has ended and has come out to this other side. When I wrote 'The Bad Batch,' I thought that the world outside the gates that confine the 'bad' characters is simply our world today.
Likewise, there is no evidence that texting teaches people to spell badly: rather, research shows that those kids who text frequently are more likely to be the most literate and the best spellers, because you have to know how to manipulate language.
Around your skin, I tie and untie mine.
A good mooring needs no knot, still no one can untie it.
The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily untie.
O time, thou must untangle this, not I. It is too hard a knot for me t'untie.
How the purer spirit is united to his clod, is a knot too hard for fallen humanity to untie.
Land of my sires! what mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand!
I begin to love this little creature, and to anticipate his birth as a fresh twist to a knot, which I do not wish to untie.
Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie.
Renounce to the desire of possessing worldly things: this is the first step in the path of perfection; by mean of this absolute untie is how the passions can be fought.