Blind Quote by Dave Kellett

Story of the english language

— Harry Reasoner

What do you call a blind German? A not see!

— Anonymous

For my Oxford degree, I had to translate French and German philosophy (as it turned out, Descartes and Kant) at sight without a dictionary.…

— Paul Engle

“dictionary with unsaid words”

— milan kundera

It was all completely incomprehensible to me. I was fearful of the language. You had to look up every third word.

— Kevin Kline

“I would think for hours how strange it was that some parts of words are silent, just like some parts of our lives. Did…

— Rene Denfeld

“Blind, blind, blind . . .”

— Charles Dickens

The one thing - apart from assumptions about German - that I have to challenge frequently is people assuming that lexicographers are fierce protectors…

— Susie Dent

The story of English spelling is the story of thousands of people - some well-known, most totally unknown - who left a permanent linguistic…

— David Crystal

“We took a sledgehammer to the rules of English and reassembled the pieces into a language only we understood.”

— Anthony Marra

In early times some sufferer had to sit up with a toothache, and he put in the time inventing the German language.

— Mark Twain

“Dictionary of Misunderstood Words”

— Milan Kundera