Culture Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton

Wordiness is a sickness of American writing. Too many words dilute and blur ideas.

— Eric Hoffer

Those who run to long words are mainly the unskillful and tasteless; they confuse pomposity with dignity, flaccidity with ease, and bulk with force.

— Henry Watson Fowler

Americans like things that don't sound American.

— Corinne Bailey Rae

The Americans are very clear, and obsessed with nouns.

— Fiona Shaw

However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in…

— Walter Kirn

Human beings needed to slow down. We had been living a life full of hustle.

— Sayani Gupta

I think we don't need to be talking about hyphenated Americans, because we are all Americans, and we all want the same thing.

— Rafael Cruz

There is a culture among academics to be obscure. If you're too clear, you can't be saying anything interesting. The issue isn't word length.…

— Lawrence Lessig

It is said that the American vocabulary has declined by half in the past few decades. It's a tragic instance of desertification following upon…

— Stephanie Mills

We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

— Abigail Adams

I'm tired of hyphenated Americans.

— Bobby Jindal

Long human words (the longer the better) were easy, unmistakable, and rarely changed their meanings . . . but short words were slippery, unpredictable,…

— Robert A. Heinlein