Charles Dickens Quotes

If you have a big enough dictionary, just about everything is a word.

I don't know if I officially proofread my father's book, but I read it. I did get some conception of grammar in general from that.

A tired exclamation mark is a question mark.

The text is a limited field of possible constructions.

If you decide to design your own language, there are thousands of sort of amateur language designer pitfalls.

The decision as to what's funny and what is not funny shall rest solely with Mr. Freberg.

In general, the philological movement opened up countless sources relevant to linguistic issues, treating them in quite a different spirit from traditional grammar; for instance, the study of inscriptions and their language. But not yet in the spirit of linguistics.

I really like grammar. And spelling. I was a spelling-bee kid. I'm hard-core about grammar.

When I need to know the meaning of a word, I look it up in a dictionary.

The marvelous thing is that even in studying linguistics, we find that the universe as a whole is patterned, ordered, and to some degree intelligible to us.

Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.

Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.

I have been fighting over commas all my life.

The way that words fit together is always interesting to me. I love words.

I don't like it when people don't know the difference between 'their', 'they're', 'there'.

Our world isn't made of earth, air and water or even molecules and atoms; our world is made of language.

Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words.

I still can't spell anything, but I can bust out two-dollar words.

I work with language. I love the flowers of afterthought.

The verb is relatively of much greater importance in an Indian tongue than in a civilized language.

No matter where we live, we have to use words. Once you've been looking into words, their stories, it's easy to fall in love with them.

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?

I found a great many pieces of punctuation and typography lying around dormant when I came along - and I must say I had a good time using them.

There is no standard for truth. We cannot even agree on the meaning of words.