Robert Plant Quotes

All my plays have these titles that are oddly tricky. I like that something can look like one thing but mean two different things. Language is really unstable in that way.

I like double entendre because then the people who get it enjoy it, and the people who don't get it don't know about it.

If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.

There is a single entendre, but I don't know about a triple one.

The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing.

I understand your new play is full of single entendres.

I would engage in a sort of syntax destruction that would sound like I was answering the question but actually was not.

The Elizabethan mind wanted and demanded that one word could mean 50 things. What Shakespeare offers us is not ambiguity; it's choices.

Ambiguity — the Devil's volleyball.

Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.

There are reproaches which praise, and praises which defame.

Ambiguity is the devil's volleyball.

The language that reveals also obscures.

I use a lot of double meanings. I hide 'em like Easter eggs.

Words can have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbit and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used.

The more you try to pin a word down, the more you realize that it has its own cape, sword and little hat.

I'd like to play a horse, many people think I already have. Either end of the horse would be fine.

Don't hate the word, playa; hate the dictionary.

Lots of English people say exactly the opposite of what they mean.

When a kid can understand that a word can mean two things, there's some real thinking going on. They have a vested interest in finding out what a word means, because it's the punch line to a joke.

Writers mean more than they say and say more than they mean.

Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.

Always say 'no pun intended' to draw attention to the intended pun.

It depends on what the meaning of “is” is.

I really didn't say everything I said.