Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to go quite true. – Samuel Johnson Category: Language
A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words. – Samuel Butler (1835-1902), Note-Books Category: Language
You can cage the singer but not the song. – Harry Belafonte, in International Herald Tribune, 1988 October 3rd Category: Censorship
I was doing stand-up at a restaurant and there was a chalkboard on the street out front. It said, Soup of the Day: Cream of Asparagus. Ellen DeGeneres. – Ellen DeGeneres Category: Comedy
But Dad and I are the only father-and-daughter acts who have both had No. 1 songs in England. – Lily Allen Category: dad
