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I have always loved the fluidity of language - delighting in dialects, dictionaries, slang and neologisms.


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RON RASH Much of the magic of language, of course, lies in its fluidity.
MEGHAN DAUM In time, all language changes. Usually slang disappears when new slang takes its place.
CAROLANN JOHNSON At any one time language is a kaleidoscope of styles, genres and dialects.
DAVID CRYSTAL Alas my love you do me wrong,
To cast me of discurteously;
And I have loved you so long,
...
ANONYMOUS I've always been in love with language. My favorite book is a dictionary. I have always loved wo...
DENIS VILLENEUVE I've found that there are only two kinds that are any good: slang that has established itself in the...
RAYMOND CHANDLER I've always loved rhyming. I love language.
MOS DEF Greek was very much a live language, and a language still unconscious of grammar, not, like ours, do...
GILBERT MURRAY That's one of the ways language evolved, by some very obscure form becoming common usage. And I ...
RICKY JAY It definitely sharpened my interest in language, the way people used language, slang words, speech p...
AMY HECKERLING Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.
M. F. K. FISHER In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold;
Alike fantastic, if too new, or old:
Be no...
ALEXANDER POPE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES People are under the impression that dictionaries legislate language. What a dictionary does is keep...
STEVEN PINKER Everybody has a language or code that they use with their wife or their girlfriend or boyfriend or w...
BEN GIBBARD Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
CARL SANDBURG Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands, and goes to work
CARL SANDBURG The sea speaks a language polite people never repeat. It is a colossal scavenger slang and has no re...
CARL SANDBURG This is the result of plenty of advance publicity and the fact that people in Cincinnati just love M...
WES COWAN I've found that there are only two kinds that are any good: slang that has established itself in the...
RAYMOND CHANDLER The Language of the Dream/Night is contrary to that of Waking/Day. It is a language of Images and Se...
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE I have always loved science, but I have always loved the arts - drawing, painting and, yes, writing ...
CHARLES M. BLOW I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a ki...
DREW BARRYMORE I think, in a lot of ways, celebrities represent the American dream. They have financial fluidity an...
ADRIAN GRENIER My desk is like a 'U,' so I have my computer and lots of dictionaries because I write in Spa...
ISABEL ALLENDE Growing up in the '60s and early '70s, with the space flight and the Apollo program, I alway...
STEWART O'NAN I tell ya, if I hadn't chosen the career of being a performer, I think linguistics would have been a...
GEORGE CARLIN I've always loved the language of flowers. I discovered Kate Greenaway's 'Language of Fl...
VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON I loved everything about Spain - the people, the language, and the food!
KARLIE KLOSS I had been learning Italian for years. I always loved Latin, but Italian is a living language; I'...
JHUMPA LAHIRI Sanskrit is a beautiful contextual language. It is called “Dev Bhasha” the language of the soul....
AMIT RAY The angels are so enamoured of the language that is spoken in heaven, that they will not distort the...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Ben - Sir Ben - is always a lift. He's always interesting to watch, so you just try and remember you...
MORGAN FREEMAN Writing a tribe is fun. They have their own language, their own slang; they repeat it, and it become...
LAURA WADE I think the fluidity of gender is the next big wave in terms of adolescent development,
CAITLIN RYAN I've always had a penchant for dialects. I remember getting detention and being told, 'Have ...
NOLAN NORTH I'm from Connecticut, and we don't have any dialects. Well, I don't think we have any di...
SETH MACFARLANE Sometimes I have to pause to make the distinction between Ben the teenager and Ben the businessman.
BEN CASNOCHA In high school, I loved history. I also loved cosmography, algebra. Mexico is so rich in culture and...
CARLOS SLIM Shocked, Raven flung back her head to listen more intently. “The wolves are talking to you! How do...
CHRISTINE FEEHAN I feel really assured by the fact that the women I have loved I have loved for always.
ALAIN BADIOU The places I come from have such rich languages, such a variety of expression. In Sierra Leone we ha...
ISHMAEL BEAH The terrible fluidity of self-revelation.
HENRY JAMES After I arrived in Mountain View, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area, I entered sixth grade a...
JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS I let the cast improvise a lot, especially with the slang, where they would say 'g and t' for gin an...
WOODY ALLEN I boldly assert, in fact I think I know, that a lot of friendships and connections absolutely depend...
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IMELDA MAY I found a great book called 'Slang Through the Ages' by Jonathon Green. It's basically a...
SCOTT WESTERFELD It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have always loved what I do.
KIRSTEN DUNST Ever since I was a kid, I just loved those comedians on TV who would just have fun with the language...
ALAN RUDOLPH Scholars, I plead with you, Where are your dictionaries of the wind, the grasses?
NORMAN MACCAIG Language kills, and inflamed rhetoric of the kind that spews almost daily from the lips of Donald Tr...
JAY PARINI I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portrai...
FAY GODWIN I have always heard wonderful things about Pauline. She loved, loved, loved daylilies and other plan...
KATHY MOSS Fluidity and discontinuity are central to the reality in which we live.
MARY CATHERINE BATESON I always loved television. I always loved movies.
DAVE ANNABLE We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want...
PRINCE WILLIAM Family is the most important thing in the world.
PRINCESS DIANA You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ...
CATHERINE THE GREAT With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still you...
KATE MIDDLETON As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
KING SOLOMON I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather th...
ZARA PHILLIPS I was always told from the hat-makers that you should have your hair up because it shows the hat mor...
ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding ...
ZARA PHILLIPS My dad's not a big talker.
ZARA PHILLIPS

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BEN HOGAN Running for money doesn't make you run fast. It makes you run first.
BEN JIPCHO We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.
BEN JONSON He threatens many that hath injured one.
BEN JONSON No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conv...
BEN ELTON It is amazing how quickly the kids learn to drive a car, yet are unable to understand the lawnmower,...
BEN BERGOR A good poet's made as well as born.
BEN JOHNSON Art has an enemy called ignorance.
BEN JOHNSON Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the t...
BEN HECHT Commerce is one of the daughters of Fortune, inconsistent and deceitful as her mother. she chooses h...
BEN JOHNSTON A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pes...
BEN JONSON There's a thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die; their silence.
BEN BECHT Much more frequent in Hollywood than the emergence of Cinderella is her sudden vanishing. At our par...
BEN HECHT