And what better way to get people talking than by creating a new word. — Stephen Amell Copy Share Image
A very great part of the mischiefs that vex the world arises from words. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I feel that I can teach my listener about a new word they can use too. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
To test whether you have learned an idea or a definition, rephrase what you just learned without using the new word. — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Instead of forming new words I recommend to you any kind of artful management by which you may be able to give… — Horace Copy Share Image
I welcome new words, or old words used in new ways, provided the result is more precision, added color or greater expressiveness. — William Safire Copy Share Image
Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit… — Zora Neale Hurston Copy Share Image
Can you rap better than a person that constantly writes? How he always run across new words. - Loverboi — Kenneth Melvin Jr Copy Share Image
And as far as I can see the world is too old for us to talk about it with our new words. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Slang moves on so fast that most new words disappear soon after they are coined. But there is always something that sticks… — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
I don't quite know what zany is. I think they should think of some new words. — Vic Reeves Copy Share Image
I think this century more than any other really has seen the phenomenon of people being uprooted in such numbers, such a… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
Bend words. Stretch them, squash them, mash them up, fold them. Turn them over or swing them upside down. Make up new… — Kyo Maclear Copy Share Image
The poet cannot invent new words every time, of course. He uses the words of the tribe. But the handling of the… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
Times of crisis, of disruption or constructive change, are not only predictable, but desirable. They mean growth. Taking a new step, uttering… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
At all periods of the [English] language it is difficult to assign a beginning date to most new words and meanings. They… — Robert Burchfield Copy Share Image
You can't build a vocabulary without reading. You can't meet friends if you ... stay at home by yourself all the time.… — Rudolf Flesch Copy Share Image
The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer. The dictionary, a new word, a voyage, an encounter,… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
New words can spread like wildfire thanks to social media - you only have to look at 'mansplaining' and 'milkshake duck' to… — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
It's not like it's a brand new vocabulary that permits to have a new reality. It's rather a new vocabulary that lets… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
I do get a little shy about contemporary language and events, but I also enjoy the idea of dating myself, somehow, anchoring… — John K. Samson Copy Share Image
“You think—I dare say that our chief job is inventing new words. But not a bit of it We’re destroying words—scores of… — Orwell, George Copy Share Image
In the mid-fifties, a revolution occurred and a new word entered the vocabulary of commercial art. Concept... But the change was not… — R. O. Blechman Copy Share Image
Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. It may mean a giving up of familiar but limiting patterns, safe but unrewarding work,… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
I often recall these words when I am writing, and I think to myself, “It’s true. There aren’t any new words. Our… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I conceived, developed and applied in many areas a new geometry of nature, which finds order in chaotic shapes and processes. It… — Benoit Mandelbrot Copy Share Image
I can never be who I was. I can simply watch her with sympathy, understanding, and some measure of awe. There she… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
I watch Glenn Beck and he's taught me well. Progressive is the new word for Communist — Victoria Jackson Copy Share Image
If I were in a position to announce a public competition to coin a new word, I would do so right now. — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
The extraordinary thing about new words is that probably only about one per cent of them are new. Most are old words… — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
I need to find a catchy new word for feminism, right? Like 'bootylicious.' — Beyonce Knowles Copy Share Image
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
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