Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons. – Aldous Huxley Category: Language
All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggars teeth. – Antonin Artaud Category: Language
Lymph, v.: to walk with a lisp. – From a Washington Post reader submission word contest Category: Language
The English language is being augmented every year by about 400 new words. We cannot cope. We are drowning in the plethora. It – Anthony Burgess Category: Language
His honest, patronizing pride in the good-will and respect of everybody about him was a safeguard even against foolish romance, still more against a lower kind of folly. – George Eliot Category: Patronize, Patronizing
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. – André Gide Category: Art