May 5, 2008
Monday, May 5, 2008
I know there will be many whose pencils hovered for an instant before putting an X in my box and I will work flat out to repay and to justify your confidence.
—Johnson’s speech in full | guardian.co.uk
(via kiyo)
I quote this only to note that that’s future, past, past progressive, and future tenses all in one sentence.
I quote this only to note that that’s future, past, past progressive, and future tenses all in one sentence.
If I take this piece of paper, and after placing it parallel with the ground, quickly let it fall, it will not settle steadily down as a staid, sensible piece of paper ought to do, but it insists on contravening every recognized rule of decorum, turning over and darting hither and thither in the most erratic manner, much after the style of an untrained horse.
—Wilbur Wright via definr word of the day
