Keith Waterhouse Quotes

I had to ask my grandchildren, 'What does it mean? I threw shade?'

Me neither,” Shane put in. “Homie don’t play that.” “I wonder, sometimes, if your generation speaks English at all,” Amelie said.

But it's hard to be hip over thirty when everyone else is nineteen, when the last dance we learned was the Lindy, and the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbara Streisand were trying to do something about it.

Can you keep up with the lingo

I use 'wicked' all the time! It's part of my slang! When something's really rad, I'm like, 'That's wicked.' It has many meanings but worldwide, it seems like young people think it alludes to being either the naughtier side of you, or the trendier, cool side of you. I like it either way.

Painful is the stress when one cannot reproduce or convey vividly to others, however hard he tries, what he's experienced so intensely.

When you get to a club and things are not going well, it's not easy to live.

I'm yelling in my mind as I write a tweet.

For me, announcing wasn't the ideal working condition.

A common language doesn't soothe dry tongues and thirsty throats.

Walking over to Iggy, he poked him with his shoe. "Does anysing on you vork properly?" Iggy rubbed his forehead with one hand. "Well, I have a highly developed sense of irony." Ter Borcht tsked. "You are a liability to your group. I assume you alvays hold onto someone's shirt, yes? Following dem closely?" "Only when I'm trying to steal their dessert," Iggy said truthfully.

Why can't I say anything normal?

We had come here to have a break from thoughts and the hard work that came with the constant interaction with idiots. Or at least people we considered idiots because they were not mind readers and we had to, patiently, use polite words to explain things that we were thinking when really inside we were fighting the urge to take their heads in our hands and softly and repeatedly thud their foreheads off the wall.

There’s part of me that loves words. But sometimes it feels like you’re trying to drive nails with your shoe.

I hope God speaks English. If I get up to heaven and have to point at a menu, I'm gonna be pissed.

What's weird is when you meet a girl who is 23 and you are talking to her, even her voice is high-pitched, she's young. You ask her how old she is, she says, 'Twenty-three, how old are you?' and when I tell her I'm 41 it's like I've just told her I have cancer. It's, 'Oh my God, how long have you had that?'

Well, I try my best to be just like I am, But everybody wants you to be just like them, They sing while you slave and I just get bored

The American insanity for Loving Everybody is ruining my good temper and delivering my stomach to enormous bouts with acidity.

What's great is my parents aren't stuck in the '60s. My dad is so into the culture of today.

My best friend Madison keeps a list on her phone of all of the different English slang that I say, so she has kind of like a translator so she can understand without having to ask me, "What on Earth are you talking about when you say 'nackered'?"

Early on - certainly in acting - you really have to take whatever you can get. So I understand well how difficult it can be to be in this position where people are just not hearing what you're trying to say or are saying. I recognize that.

What does it mean that social structures among young people are so often predicated upon trying really, really hard to appear to not-be-trying?

Speak English!' said the Eaglet. 'I don't know the meaning of half those long words, and I don't believe you do either!

You don't know what it is to stay a whole day with your head in your hands trying to squeeze your unfortunate brain so as to find a word.

You have to put up with the risk of being misunderstood if you are going to try to communicate.