Everyday Speech Quotes
- Many words and expressions which only a matter of decades ago were considered so distastefully explicit that, were they merely to be breathed in public,… — Douglas Adams
- This rule of silence is upheld when the culture refuses everyone easy access even to the word “patriarchy.†Most children do not learn what to… — Bell Hooks
- Yeah, well, the F-bomb - it's become as ubiquitous as the word 'like.' People just throw the word 'like' around as punctuation. And I think… — Geoffrey Rush
- Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur Thou still unravished bride… — Terry Eagleton
- Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously. — Stephen Fry