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
I thought I’d learn a few new words, but the men were too shocked to even swear this time. — Kiersten White Copy Share Image
I definitely do see language serving its users, and when it no longer serves them we need to look for new words. — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
I just wish they'd put a new word in the dictionary bigger than love because love just doesn't describe what I feel. — John Mayer Copy Share Image
I do think it's important that we experiment with new vocabularies. That new words help us conceptualize our social existence in a… — Judith Butler 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
The enthusiasm geologists show for adding new words to their conversation is, if anything, exceeded by their affection for the old. They… — John McPhee Copy Share Image
You are more than entitled not to know what the word 'performative' means. It is a new word and an ugly word,… — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
If there is some aspect of creation you find you do not enjoy, bless it and simply change it. Choose again. Call… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
I love being a conservative. We conservatives are proud of our philosophy. Unlike our liberal friends, who are constantly looking for new… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I feel alive in quiet moments with my son, riding our bikes or watching him line his trains up in a particular… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
New words travel from one variety of English to another and at a rapidly increasing rate, thanks to the way language is… — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
A new language always reflects a new point of view, and the gradual unconscious popularization of new words, or of old words… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
I have searched all night and day for new and better words that could express my feelings and fear for the people… — Killer Mike Copy Share Image
I have prayed for new men, fiery, reckless men, possessed of uncontrollably youthful passion-these lit by the Spirit of God. I have… — Jim Elliot Copy Share Image
We travel because, no matter how comfortable we are at home, there's a part of us that wants - that needs -… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Obama has already demonstrated an extraordinary ability to change the limits of what one can say publicly. His greatest achievement up to… — Slavoj Žižek Copy Share Image
Prophetic utterance, like poetic utterance, transforms experience and moves the receiver to new attitudes. The kinds of experience--the recognitions or revelations--out of… — Denise Levertov Copy Share Image
“The thing to do is to go on, in the same suave tone, from uttering a series of banalities to expressing a… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
“It is true that the original of this story is put into new words, and the style of the famous lady we… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
It really is worth the trouble to invent a new symbol if we can thus remove not a few logical difficulties and… — Gottlob Frege Copy Share Image
One of the joys of language is its constant evolution, and a lexicographer's job is both to track new words and to… — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
And to bring in a new word by the head and shoulders, they leave out the old one. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
'Refudiate,' 'misunderestimate,' 'wee-wee'd up.' English is a living language. Shakespeare liked to coin new words too. Got to celebrate it!' — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
“With new words are created new worlds, as they are vehicles of new ideas. They enable the process of expanding the mind.… — Devdutt Pattanaik Copy Share Image
“In the absence of a formally agreed, worldwide dictionary definition of 'Quotography' (in 2016), here are my two cents worth: 'Quotography is… — Alex Morritt Copy Share Image
There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can… — Bette Davis Copy Share Image
The truth is that only 1% of all new words are totally new, and of those an even smaller percentage are conjured… — Susie Dent Copy Share Image
We need new words for what this is, this hunger entering our loneliness like birds, stunning our eyes into rays of hope.… — Lucille Clifton Copy Share Image
New technology creates a new marketplace of words, creating totally new words and changing the meaning and application of existing ones. In… — Mark Walport Copy Share Image
“Julian Huxley brought several other new words and concepts into biology, including replacing the much-maligned term race with the phrase ethnic group.” — Geoffrey West Copy Share Image
“There were new words for everything in their dead language put back to use. New words for the jets and their radar… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
“I don't think you have enough "new" words - and speaking of languor I would speak of it as 'a touch of… — Diana Vreeland Copy Share Image
We should probably figure out a new word for this. For us, "open" means transparent, as in "open source" - you're not… — Mitchell Baker Copy Share Image
I think I have done well, if I have acquired a new word from a good author; and my business with him… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“i am something new" you must tell yourself. "i am the beginning and end of a story that will never be liver… — Christopher Poindexter Copy Share Image
