All Erin McKean Quotes
- People say to me, ‘How do I know if a word is real?’ You know, anybody who’s read a children’s book knows that love makes… Anybody
- You can weaponize nice... Being nice can make you be a little underestimated. Little
- Experiences is just paying attention as time passes. Attention
- And I don't like people who eat powdered doughnuts. I don't car how careful you are, they're just plain messy. I can't believe they taste… All
- if you want someone to stop listening to you go ahead and yell. If you want them to listen to every word, whisper. -Mimi Ahead
- Singing when no one else is around is always good. I especially like belters. Good, loud singing is probably better medicine than half the stuff… Always Good
- You don’t owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don’t owe… Anyone
- Words take on many different meanings. Different Meanings
- There are very few good ways to get publicity for a dictionary. Dictionary
- All language is a popularity contest. All
- Language is a nice way to remember things. Language
- All words have life cycles. All
- If words are doing their job, then their novelty will not be the most noticeable thing about them. Job
- Almost any word can be drafted to serve as a verb, even words we think of as eternal and unchanging, stuck in their more traditional… Any
- Lexicographers are language reporters. Language
- Words are so lovable. How could you not love words? Lovable
- By the time the traditionally male lexicographers become interested in looking at fashion words, their origins are lost in the mists of time. Become Interested
- The use of food metaphors is really well established English... Somebody is a peach, a hot tamale. English
- A love letter is to be savored; a love email... is to be forwarded to all your friends, and probably laughed at. All
- Most of the words you know and love and use every day are not words you learned by looking them up in a dictionary and… Day
- If anything is guaranteed to annoy a lexicographer, it is the journalistic habit of starting a story with a dictionary definition. Annoy
- For me, conferences are like little mental vacations: a chance to go visit an interesting place for a couple of days, and come back rested… Chance