“Movies are more than a commodity. Movies are to our civilization what dreams and ideals are to individual lives: They express the mystery and help define the nature of who we are and what we are becoming.”
— Frank Pierson
(screenwriter: Cool Hand Luke)
WORK those words!
“There’s a hell of a distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.”
— Dorothy Parker
Some weres need hyphens. Others do not.
On a friend’s Facebook page, we’ve been discussing whether various werecreatures should be hyphenated or not. I usually don’t hyphenate unless it would put two vowels in a row. I WOULD hyphenate were-elephant, were-umbrella, were-aardvark.
Although, as I noted, if you’re a were-aardvark, you have bigger problems than whether your condition is spelled with a hyphen or not.
… but we use the instruments we have, and play them the best we can…
Language is a cracked kettle on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, while all the time we long to move the stars to pity.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Cold is relative
The temperature is zero. But don’t worry. It’s zero degrees F, not Kelvin. Zero degrees Kelvin would be another story, although none of us would be around to tell it, I fear.