Language Quote by Futurama

The professorial dictum has always been to write what you know, but I say write what you don't know and find something out. And…

— T.C. Boyle

You could teach [George] Carlin in college. It's the construction of the word and the order of things and how they go. How all…

— Jay Mohr

“The silent adjustments to understand colloquial language are enormously complicated.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“I had recently come into the possession of a Thesaurus. You would not believe how many words there are! When I opened that book,…

— The Harvard Lampoon

“I can see the…seams where they’re put together. And, almost, see the apparatus inside them take the words I just said and try to…

— Ken Kesey

If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought, another time, to know that you know…

— Francis Bacon

“Terms swarm up to tempt me in the course of this description: Greek Orthodox, Romanesque, flying buttress, etc. These guessing words I find junked…

— Jonathan Lethem

Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know more.

— Confucius

“Organization. If you want big words to talk to intellectuals with, that's a fine big word, son, just as many syllables as imagination, and…

— Robert Shea

“And this is the sense of the word "grammar" which our inaccurate student detests, and this is the sense of the word which every…

— Anonymous

“I had the dictionary at my elbow. Every now and then I would flip a page, find a large incomprehensible word and build a…

— Charles Bukowski

“Collect and read dictionaries. Take a couple of minutes every day to read a page. Highlight fun words you didn't know before and write…

— Douglas Wilson