50th anniversary Quote by Rob Lowe

Apparently Sodapop Curtis said "gnarly," and Chris Traeger said "literally." Every decade I have a favorite phrase I can't stop with.

— Rob Lowe

“For Alwyn's grandfather, who was known as "the greatest talker in the country," used words which no one else understood, words which he did…

— Glenway Wescott

“Disconnect yourself from people who cannot add five to your ten words, because, sooner or later, you won't be able to say even a…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“I like the modern form. Anyone who absolutely has to understand everything he sees misses a lot. It's not always true that "obscure words…

— Tarjei Vesaas

“I’m afraid my wife picked up a number of, er, colorful expressions from the Yanks and such,” Frank offered, with a nervous smile. “True,”…

— Diana Gabaldon

“But in the name of the most holy, Mosca, of all the people you could have taken up with, why Eponymous Clent?" Because I’d…

— Frances Hardinge

“But we were chumps and we knew it. As makers of sentences we were practically fetal, beneath notice, unlaunched, fooling around in our spare…

— Jonathan Lethem

“Even in those pieces that seemed to be casually tossed off, I was always searching for the right word, for the proper escape from…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

“Every phrase had to be captured on paper or it wasn't real, it slipped away. I'd see the words hanging in midair--Camille, pass the…

— Gillian Flynn

“Do not get glum when you are no longer understood, little book. Do not curse your fate. Do not reach up from readers' laps…

— Joanna Russ

“I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in. As I walked, my mind was busy fitting what…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

The practice of hinting by single letters those expletives with which profane and violent persons are wont to garnish their discourse, strikes me as…

— Charlotte Bronte