"John is always rabbiting on about his many dates with many girls" — Rabbit on = to talk in an excited and noisy way about something is not interesting to the other person noisy = barulhento, irritante

TO /tu:/ noção de direção, ir para algum lugar, movimento, destino

FOR /fûr/ noção de finalidade, propósito

PADRÕES - GOING TO - SHOW TO - LISTEN TO

PADRÕES - do for - translate for - fight for

"Teenagers scrolling down their facebook feeds while walking on the streets are sitting ducks for thieves".

"John ratted on his sister to their parents". "The thief ratted on his companions to avoid jail time"

I can't wait to meet her She can't wait to find a new job I can't wait for my vacation I can't hardly wait to buy a new computer

TOO / AS WELL / ALSO TOO: no final das frases. SEMPRE. TOO MUCH: demais, antes de adv ou adj AS WELL: frases afirmativas. No final. NOT ONLY, BUT ALSO ALSO: ...

ALSO 1. frase + ponto final + ALSO + frase que adicione uma ideia a primeira frase 2. entre o pronome e o verbo

When meeting difficult situations, one should dash forward bravely and with joy.

It is delicate being my age and trying to do all the regular teenager stuff, and then having that in the spotlight.

I love portobello mushrooms. I often say that if I were vegetarian, I would live off of these. Now, it would never happen, but it's still nice to know that they exist. So meaty, so flavorful.

I buy hats like women buy shoes. I have well over 150.

Despair is a cruel companion. It robs you of everything especially the choices that still lie within your control.

Marriage can be viewed as the waiting room for death.

When I was about ten years old, I gave my teacher an April Fool's sandwich, which had a dead goldfish in it.

We had a pretty good lead, so why push it.

Art matters.

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

I'm fascinated by fire. When I was four, I wore an American fireman's hat all the time, and I still have one in my office today. Glasgow used to be called 'Tinderbox City;' there were always fires, people getting killed.

People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests.

It is hard enough to make a plan for how you are going to spend an evening with somebody else. So to make a plan for how you are going to behave in 25 years seems based on a view of life that is incomprehensible to me.

My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complicated family history that includes more than the usual share of divorce, step-children, dysfunction, and obfuscation. I've spent most of my adult life attempting to deconstruct that history and separate fact from fiction.

I guess I'm a hopeful optimist, because to be a pessimist is to be suicidal.

How it is that within 60 days of a general election issue, groups can no longer tell voters that a Member of Congress votes pro-abortion, against guns, against the environment or whatever else is beyond me.

With the Savior's power and light we will be enabled to push back the darkness of the world.

What, of course, we want in a university is for people to learn the skills they're going to need outside the classroom. So, having a system that had more emphasis on inquiry and exploration but also on learning and practising specific skills would fit much better with how we know people learn.

I was kind of a nerdy, geeky type. And I loved math. People teased me about it. I felt pretty much like an outcast.

Any businessman will tell you that transportation is fundamental to success.

I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they'd be, what position they'd play and so on.

I believe most at home accidents happen in the bathroom because our guardian angels give us our privacy.

Affirmative action makes employers think, 'Black woman nuclear physicist? Hah! Probably let her into Harvard 'cause they were looking for a twofer. Bet she got C's in high school practical math. Give her a job in personnel.'

Objectifying is kind of a funny thing. Art is objectification, all art, because you're taking someone and making them into an object. But people can also talk back more to you when you're sketching them. They can look at you and say, 'Oh man, you got me wrong.'