Fashion Quote by Bill Bryson

Language is more fashion than science, and matters of usage, spelling and pronunciation tend to wander around like hemlines.

— Bill Bryson

Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

— Henry Fielding

“There is much argument here about what is respectable and what is not, and what a good gel should or should not do regarding…

— Theresa Breslin

Whenever I get depressed, I raise my hemlines. If things don't change, I am bound to be arrested.

— Calista Flockhart

Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

“If we should be worrying about anything to do with the future of English, it should not be that the various strands will drift…

— Bill Bryson

“All Indo-European languages have the capacity to form compounds. Indeed, German and Dutch do it, one might say, to excess. But English does it…

— Bill Bryson

“Pantaloons were often worn tight as paint and were not a great deal less revealing, particularly as they were worn without underwear. . .…

— Bill Bryson

Language corresponds only to itself. Intellectuals suffer from that. And once you begin to question language, you cannot stop at studying linguistics. Analytical philosophy…

— Martin Walser

The marvelous thing is that even in studying linguistics, we find that the universe as a whole is patterned, ordered, and to some degree…

— Anonymous

“We believe that information is an enlightening agent, but I can assure you it is not. We consume information, but we can’t read. We…

— R.F. Georgy

In studying language we can discover many basic properties of this cognitive structure, its organization, and also the genetic predispositions that provide the foundation…

— Noam Chomsky