David Crystal Quotes

Texting has reduced the number of waste words, but it has also exposed a black hole of ignorance about traditional - what a cranky guy would call correct - grammar.

My grandmother was an English teacher for a while. And she stressed to me the importance of reading, being able to articulate well.

The written word is everything.

If you can talk, you can write.

Writing is the great invention of the world.

Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions.

Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom.

Conversation is the legs on which thought walks; and writing, the wings by which it flies.

I don't know how you feel, but I feel like writing, clarity of thought, and truth have been validated because we see what happens when we get lax in those areas. I'm excited by the idea that writers like us can actually reach out and try to understand and prod and agitate the people who are in support of Trump because we have the tools to do it. We're language people and we're idea people.

Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world.

Power to translate is the test of having really understood one's own meaning.

In a world of more brilliance words don't mean anything.

I feel like guys don't think it's cool to use emojis. I'm like, that's so whack. Emojis help so much. They really do give context to something.

Writing is a form of talking, although writing is such an odd thing in and of itself. People go about it in such different ways.

I had always suspected language was quite limited in its ability to communicate the intricate mysteries of truth.

Whatever, bro. We both had a long day. Too much drama. I'll TTYS." I wanted to ridicule him for using chatspeak IRL, but I found myself lacking the energy.

We are born into a box of time and space. We use words and communication to break out of it and to reach out to others.

If it were not for quotations, conversations between gentlemen would consist of an endless series of 'what-ho!'s.

Grasp the subject, the words will follow.

I think sometimes you don't understand how to convey an idea, depending on the moment you're living in.

Speech is the index of the mind.

Language can't solve everything, of course, but it does carry our dreams and our ideas.

Hey can mean anything. It can mean yes, it can mean maybe, it could mean no, it could mean next week. Hey, the bottom line is you have to understand me to understand hey.

I'd tell you all you want and more, if the sounds I made could be what you hear

Some people have a way with words, and other people...oh, uh, not have way.