Articles Quote by Stephen Tobolowsky

I like crisp words like 'blimey', 'yikes', 'crap' which describe consternation, embarrassment, and sometimes wonderment without making me type so many alphabets.

— Twinkle Khanna

I'm lanky and goofy.

— Jake Hager

Wordstruck is exactly what I was—and still am: crazy about the sound of words, the look of words, the taste of words, the feeling…

— Robert MacNeil

If I had to describe myself in one word its annoying...

— Jasmine

I totally bristle against words like "dysfunction" or "abuse."

— Justin Torres

Describing someone as quirky is a way of erasing them. What does it even mean? In so many interviews over the years, that's how…

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

Slothful, feeble, pretentious, pedantic, elitist - these are some of the epithets that eventually become associated with the absent minded scholar, the poor sighted…

— Alberto Manguel

Aping urbanity, Oozing with vanity, Plump as a manatee, Faking humanity, Intellectual inanity, Journalistic calamity, Fox Noise insanity, You're a profanity, Hannity

— John Cleese

When I was growing up, I worried that people would dismiss me as a boring swot because I always had my nose in a…

— Susie Dent

Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle headedness - and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all, that is what I…

— Mark Twain

Just because I have a good vocabulary, I don't think of myself as anachronistic - just because I try not to use the word…

— Paul F. Tompkins

I'm quite obsessed with words.

— Sigrid