October 17, 2007

"Quotes"

I love words and language. I love their power to evoke any emotion, to entertain, to explain, to teach, to save, to win a battle, to raise a person to power or bring them down, to change a life.

This love has brought to me a new hobby... quote collecting. I can't stop. I steal them from people I know and find them in books, newspapers, and magazines. I hear them at conferences, in songs and on TV or movies. I even make up my own which my students collect, use and remind me of.

One of the most recent quotes I have been pondering is by E.B. White and I heard it at a teaching conference last week:

"Humor plays close to the white, hot fire of truth."

Chew on that for a while, and in the meantime, send me your quotes.