John Humphrys

Think about how much skateboarding opens your eyes to see the world differently.

— John Humphrys

“once computers gain good language understanding and we can speak to them, then reading and writing are going to seem cumbersome’.”

— John Humphrys

“Incidentally, it seems that ‘apartment’ has finally taken over from ‘flat’; I fancy they’ll soon have ‘closets’ rather than wardrobes. Anyway,”

— John Humphrys

The good television of today is probably better than the best television of the old days. The bad television of today is…

— John Humphrys

“The more clearly we are able to express ourselves, the less room there is for ambiguity. The more elaborate and the more…

— John Humphrys

It is largely on television and radio that real probing of what politicians are up to has to happen.

— John Humphrys

It is no good saying we [journalists] must report only what is true because what is true cannot always be proven.

— John Humphrys

“what the pictures cannot do is express the complexity that might help us understand why these terrible things are happening. Only words…

— John Humphrys

“We stopped being perfect around the time when Eve picked the apple and started coming on to Adam. That”

— John Humphrys

“Language so remote from the way we speak in the real world prompts the question: what’s behind all that, then? Gushing vacuity…

— John Humphrys

If the semicolon is one of the neglected children in the family of punctuation marks these days, told to stay in its…

— John Humphrys

“The measure of human success is no longer the life well lived but the lifestyle well lived.”

— John Humphrys

“Funny how one little word can mean ‘full of or disposed to joy and mirth’, ‘homosexual’ and ‘rubbish’. It just shows that…

— John Humphrys

“Samuel Johnson said, ‘It is happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.”

— John Humphrys

It is the relentless onward march of the texters, the SMS (Short Message Service) vandals who are doing to our language what…

— John Humphrys

“Change, that all-encompassing word, has become a universal corporate mantra. We must change to survive. But change from what and to what?…

— John Humphrys

The BBC has tended over the years to be broadly liberal as opposed to broadly conservative for all sorts of perfectly understandable…

— John Humphrys

“He has his world and I have mine and we each speak our own kinds of English in them. But we also…

— John Humphrys