"Teenagers scrolling down their facebook feeds while walking on the streets are sitting ducks for thieves". — Sitting duck = someone or something that is vulnerable to an easy attack

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

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

"John is always rabbiting on about his many dates with many girls"

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

If you're raised with a poverty mentality, nothing is going to change it. I do know some really stingy billionaires. I come from such a generation of hand-to-mouthers.

A watched pot never boils

The driver that you have to sell on safety shouldnt be driving.

Finding your style is like putting puzzle pieces together.

Three of my tattoos can be considered spiritual or faithful.

The toughest opponents for me are the defenders who are tough in the way they play - where you can't see a way through.

It is only through labor and painful effort by grim energy and resolute courage that we move on to better things.

You should not be a slave to your telephone. The technology is there to serve you, not the other way around.

For me, I'm sort of a wanna-be composer, and I love being involved with the arrangements.

Journalism largely consists of saying "Lord Jones is Dead" to people who never knew that Lord Jones was alive.

I would say that the West is very young, it's very corrupt. We're not very wise. And I think we're hopeful that there is a place that is ancient and wise and open and filled with light.

Democracy is a good client.

Well, it was kind of accidental that Jim started playing with us, although it wasn't sudden... we hadn't really looked around to think who could be a fifth member.

Where there are no rights, there are no duties.

I have a constant sort of melancholy approach to acting that fuels me. I want to do everything.

Your mind can't always tell the difference between pretend and reality if you pretend too long; or if you go too deep and really believe in what you're doing. If you're going to be that kind of actor and go way out there, it's really important to take care of yourself and have a safe place, whatever that is.

I do love Shirley Jackson, but I don't deserve to be named in connection with her. I remember reading 'The Haunting of Hill House' and having goosebumps for hours. The way she builds narrative pressure in that book is just amazing. I think you could reread it a few times and actually go out of your mind.

Economic, social, and other kinds of regional cooperation are not possible so long as there is apartheid. Therefore, it seems the duty of all mankind to destroy it.

I didn't go to film school. My Grampa always says just watch a lot of movies. He didn't go to film school; he went to theatre school. It's interesting to learn about the technical side of it, but I think it's more important to learn about writing and working with actors.

I'll fall for you, if you fall for me' that's not how love's supposed to be; it's when you seek solace in pain and love retains without complaints.

An icon painter starts not with Jesus Christ but by finding earth and rubbing. Now what is earth, what are you rubbing in directing?

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.

You may only be one person to the world, but you may also be the world to one person.