Language Quote by Samuel Johnson

“APHETA  (APHE'TA)   n.s.[with astrologers.] The name of the plant, which is imagined to be the giver or disposer of life in a nativity.Dict.”

— Samuel Johnson

“Oma apu on paras apu.”

— Antti Tuuri

I cannot write in English, because of the treacherous spelling. When I am reading, I only hear it and am unable to remember what…

— Albert Einstein

“― Cum faci tu, că ai sâni pietroşi? Auzi, ce idioţenie! ― îi descânt cu apă neîncepută, i-am răspuns.”

— Mihail Drumeş

That phrase "hocus-pocus" started out as "hocus-pocus dominocus", and was, in the beginning, a mocking imitation of the holy incantations of the Catholic Church's…

— L. M. Boyd

“An,Epigram, Is,an,epic,Weight, Concealed, In,a,gram’s,Space.”

— Jose Garcia Villa

“What is a spell after all but a way of coaxing syllables together so persuasively that some new word is spelled...some imprecision clarified, some…

— Gregory Maguire

“Apa? WARIA? Iiih, Dennis! Sudah kubilang berapa kali, sih? Aku ini drag queen, darling, bukan waria! Drag queen itu perwujudan Madonna! Glamor, berani, berbahaya!…

— Adham T. Fusama

“Aparent mergem înainte”

— Novalis

“Epi oinopa ponton.”

— James Joyce

“[H]e emits a long sequence of hard consonants that, even though Ove does not understand them, he suspects to be various combinations of four-letter…

— Fredrik Backman

“The Word is symbol of delight which sucks up men and scenes, trees, plants, factories, and Pekinese. Then the Thing becomes the Word and…

— John Steinbeck