“ At times, said the founder of the Chicago Tribune, Lincoln seemed to reach into the clouds and take out the thunderbolts. Harold Holzer
“ Lincoln on a desire to hear Horace Greeley speak: "In print, every one of his words seems to weigh about a ton. Harold Holzer
“ Only a writer "with Bennett's craft and brass could manage to praise and insult his readers at the same time. Harold Holzer
“ Offstage, I couldn't put things into words, and that was the one thing I'd always been able to rely on. Putting my feelings into words and praying they wouldn't be able to get out again. Carrie Fisher
“ The authors disclose that in less than a century the word "tension" grew from signifying a literal electric charge to a metaphor for emotional stress between two people. Writes Owen Barfield, "The sci… Philip Zaleski
“ Language itself is so value-laden as to render value-neutrality almost impossible. Growing up in England I was introduced to the American Revolution by a 'footnote' to colonial history about the 'revo… Arthur F. Holmes
“ John F. Kennedy responded, as he often did when at his best, skillfully mixing dollops of wit with, self-deprecation, and the principle of not-really-going-near-the-question. David Pietrusza
“ In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet, because language itself is poetry. – Owen Barfield Philip Zaleski
