“If you love the language, the greatest thing you can do to ensure its survival is not to complain about bad usage but to pass your enthusiasm to a child. Find a child and read to it often the things… — Robert MacNeil Copy Share Image
I'm happy to have my own opinion and air it when I think it's necessary. — Robert MacNeil Copy Share Image
Also, when I didn't like something, I could keep my opinion to myself. — Robert MacNeil Copy Share Image
I grew up in kind of the last generation of Canadians who thought things that were happening in Britain were more important, almost, than… — Robert MacNeil Copy Share Image
I think one of the lessons we learn in life - and it's an old lesson, but each of us has to learn it,… — Robert MacNeil Copy Share Image
“If you love the language, the greatest thing you can do to ensure its survival is not to complain about bad usage but to… — Robert MacNeil Copy Share Image
Wordstruck is exactly what I was—and still am: crazy about the sound of words, the look of words, the taste of words, the feeling… — Robert MacNeil Copy Share Image
Change is legitimate and inevitable, for our language is a mighty river, picking up silt and flotsam here and discarding it there, but growing… — Robert MacNeil Copy Share Image
We spent a month in Japan last year, a week in Istanbul for the United Nations, and nearly three months in my native Nova… — Robert MacNeil Copy Share Image
“He always wrote on the flyleaf of each new book the date and where he was, so I can follow him: reading Chesterton just… — Robert MacNeil Copy Share Image
I am not really retired, and may never be completely, but I can't think of a better place to contemplate retirement than New York… — Robert MacNeil Copy Share Image
Words make another place, a place to escape to with your spirit alone. — Robert MacNeil Copy Share Image
After I became a citizen, I felt freer to say what I thought about this country, both negative and positive. I think I had… — Robert MacNeil Copy Share Image
But, finally, I just realized a few years ago that this is where I belonged. I mean everything I had was invested here, emotionally… — Robert MacNeil Copy Share Image
Well, I had a small degree, that little infection of skepticism about America which resides in the minds of even America's closest friends. That… — Robert MacNeil Copy Share Image
