Quote of the day
It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content … it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion.
Gerald Priestland

Born: February 26, 1927
Died: June 20, 1991 (aged 64)
Bio: Gerald Francis Priestland was a foreign correspondent and, later, a religious commentator for the BBC.
Known for:
- Who needs the Church? (1983)
- The Dilemmas of Journalism (1979)
- Reasonable Uncertainty (1982)
- Coming Home: An Introduction to the Quakers






