Accordions Quote by Robert Burchfield

The word got out that I can ad-lib very well.

— John Witherspoon

I find it strange that there isn't more of a melting pot of language within the pop charts. I feel it becomes really two…

— Gwenno

Maybe [I care about language] because I'm an editor, maybe because I'm picky, but it's all we got, don't shrink it. Don't dumb it…

— Toni Morrison

I'm not an ad-libber. If I'm asked to ad-lib, I can ad-lib forever and it's really fun to do that, but I find that…

— James Marsters

Those who prefer their English sloppy have only themselves to thank if the advertisement writer uses his mastery of the vocabulary and syntax to…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

It's all just so fraught when you're writing and then going through the editorial process. It feels like this shape-shifting thing. When it's done,…

— Danielle Dutton

We'd dub the one that came off best into the final transcription. It gave us a chance to ad lib as much as we…

— Bing Crosby

The English language is so elastic that you can find another word to say the same thing.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I hate editors, for they make me abandon a lot of perfectly good English words.

— Mark Twain

English is a very expressive language.

— Ken Watanabe

English has more flexibility. It's a very plastic, very shapeable, very expressive language. In that sense it feels quite natural.

— Ha Jin

English, as a subject, never really got over its upstart nature. It tries to bulk itself up with hopeless jargon and specious complexity, tries…

— Zadie Smith