“ With my sometimes blunt indecent vocabulary & very vivid imagination, I wonder if I should be writing "other" kinds of content. April Mae Monterrosa
“ A good ruler has to learn his world's language, and that's different for every world, the language you don't hear just with your ears. Frank Herbert
“ [T]he accumulation of things not spelled out, not properly articulated, may result in neurosis. Joseph Brodsky
“ PLEASE and THANK YOU...two polite phrases which are slowly disappearing from our vocabulary. Anthony T. Hincks
“ Loving your language means a command of its vocabulary beyond the level of the everyday. John McWhorter
“ There was a language specific to all things. The ability to learn another language in one arena, whether it was music, medicine, or finance, could be used to accelerate learning and other arenas, too. Chris Gardner
“ I have a Greek-American friend who named her daughter Nike and is often asked why she chose to name her offspring after a sneaker. Rebecca Goldstein
“ One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because you're maybe a little bit ashamed of your short ones. This is like dressing up a h… Stephen King
“ Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, tuned the English tongue. Harold Bloom
“ It is our duty and our joy to communicate our hearts to each other. Words assist us in this task. Kate DiCamillo
“ I'd call him a sadistic, hippophilic necrophile, but that would be beating a dead horse. Woody Allen
“ The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down a… James D. Nicoll
“ This year my goal will be to learn new vocabulary in English and to read as much as possible books. Deyth Banger
