Common Usage Quotes
- Many expressions that are in common usage, and sometimes the structure of language itself, reveal the fact that people don't know who they are. You… — Eckhart Tolle
- The inspired scribbler always has the gift for gossip in our common usage he or she can always inspire the commonplace with an uncommon flavor,… — Elizabeth Drew
- We were postwar middle-class white kids living in the slipstream of the greatest per-capita rise in income in the history of Western civilization; we were… — John Lahr
- That's one of the ways language evolved, by some very obscure form becoming common usage. And I must say that I'm very intrigued by use… — Ricky Jay
- What's the shelf life of a 1931 movie? If it still exists, there will always be film buffs and a niche audience who will want… — Joe Dante
- I have heard my fill of hurtful words. I think it's especially egregious when citizens like me, who point out abuses in their country, are… — Gunter Grass