Lexical Word Quotes & Sayings

I am happy to debate the past with the Prime Minister ... I have a big dossier on his past, and I did not even have to sex it up. — Michael Howard

I'd rather you said 'I love you' because you were so full of love for me that you couldn't keep it in. — Rainbow Rowell

I believe that culture begins in the cradle ... To do without tales and stories and books is to lose humanity's past, is to have no star map for our future. — Jane Yolen

In English, we don't have a word for people who aren't virgins. What the non-virgin lexical gap really made me think was that our obsession with sexual purity is such that once you are no longer this THING, you are indescribable. — John Green

During the time that my recording career seemed to be in a slump a music called disco came on the scene and literally took over radio stations as well as having radio stations created to play it which sort of negated my music as well as that of some of my peers. — Dionne Warwick

Your problem is a serious lack of imagination. You can't imagine being different than you are. — Linda Morris

To enjoy and learn from what you read you must understand the meanings of the words a writer uses. You do yourself a grave disservice if you read around words you don't know, or worse, merely guess at what they mean without bothering to look them up.
For me, reading has always been not only a quest for pleasure and enlightenment but also a word-hunting expedition, a lexical safari. — Charles Harrington Elster

When I'm sitting writing, I know that something works if I've made myself cry, or laugh, or have a visceral emotion. — Brit Marling

The mean things of this world had only one lesson-we are meaner than you'd ever imagine. — Dennis Lehane

The number of parts that were required were just prohibitive. — Jack Kilby

The Eisenhower Memorial competition and project have stirred a remarkable polemic, the center of which is not President Eisenhower or Washington, D.C. but Mr. Gehry and the values he promulgates. — Leon Krier

When you impress yourself, you're going to automatically impress us. — Eric Thomas