“I hiked around town, the air sweet and dry, and was sort of overwhelmed by the perfection of it -- the old courthouse, the train depot, Mount [Jumbo] and Mount Sentinel rising up, the neon bars, the funky festivity of a college town .” AirCollegeSweetPerfectionTownsTrainBarsRisingDryOverwhelmedMontanaNeonFunkyRising UpFestivitiesSentinelsCourthouses Author:Garrison Keillor
“He who comes from the kitchen, smells of its smoke; and he who adheres to a sect, has something of its cant; the college air pursues the student; and dry inhumanity him who herds with literary pedants.” AirStudentsCollegeSmellPursueSmokeKitchenDryCantHerdsSectsInhumanityPedants Author:Johann Kaspar Lavater
“What you don't see on television is people dying today because they can't get to a doctor and they can't afford prescription drugs. That's why they are also dying. They are dying in Iraq because they are poor and they have gone into the military because they can't afford to go to college. They're dying because they're living in communities where asthma rates are extremely high because the air is filthy. The suffering of the poor and working class people is a virtual nonissue for the media. But that is the reality.” PeopleRealityTodaySufferingCommunityPoorClassGoneAirDyingMediaMilitaryTelevisionCollegeDrugDoctorsRateIraqWorking ClassPrescriptionsFilthyPrescription DrugsAsthmaPeople Dying Author:Bernie Sanders
“Shakespearean words, foreign words, slang and dialect and made-up phrases from kids on the street corner: English has room for them all. And writers - not just literary writers, but popular writers as well - breathe air into English and keep it lively by making it their own, not by adhering to some style manual that gets handed out to college Freshmen in a composition class.” WellsMadeKidsRoomsClassAirStreetsStyleCollegeCornersBreathePhrasesCompositionLivelyManualsFreshmanDialectSlangStreet CornersCollege Freshmen Author:Donna Tartt