Christopher Moore Quotes

Ever since I was a kid, I just loved those comedians on TV who would just have fun with the language.

Nothing much interested me other than playing with language and telling stories and doing something with the wonders of the world around me.

I get just as much of a thrill out of constructing a good sentence that gets a laugh at the end as I do from a joke.

Words make love with one another.

I think of myself as a writer as much as I think of myself as a linguist and an academic. I really enjoy writing - playing with language and getting just the right metaphor.

It's 'ow,' like, you stubbed your toe. 'Lee,' like Bruce Lee. Then, you add an 'e.' Auli'i Cravalho.

In Hebrew, the name Susan means 'graceful lily' - in Khmer, it means 'girl with the bad puns,' and in ancient Aztec, it translates as 'she with the cockerel hair and dirty glasses.'

Words," he said, "is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life.

If a statement is untrue, it is not the more respectable because it has been said in Latin.

He said, "The word for moonlight is moonlight.

What has been said does not simply belong to us.

I wish the first word I ever said was the word "quote", so right before I die I could say "unquote".

Oh dear,' said Eddie. 'We'd better hurry. Tinto, call me a cab.' All right,' said Tinto. 'You're a cab.

Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.

A strange thing, words. Once they're said, it's hard to imagine they're untrue.

I like the concentration, the crush; I like working with language, as others like working with clay, or notes.

In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along, step by step, using every time an old boulder, yet never setting his foot on an old place.

Has it ever occurred to you,' he said, 'that the whole history of English poetry has been de-termined by the fact that the English language lacks rhymes?

I write. I have read a great deal. I enjoy books. I like the wit of languages. Even French I like. I like to be able to think in different modes. I like to be able to use the language a great deal and carry on rehearsals in French.

After all, nothing helps to write lyrics more than to mess around with the language.

The meaning of what is said is according to the motive for saying it: because things are not subject to speech, but speech to things. Therefore we should take account of the motive of the lawgiver, rather than of his very words.

I have said that Mr. Trump's language is divisive.

Everything that can be said, can be said clearly.

I've never said I'm immortal. I do believe in correct language. I'm eternal; I'm not immortal.

I love words; they are the quoits, the bows, the staves that furnish the gymnasium of the mind.