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David Crystal Quotes

Word books traditionally focus on unusual and quirky items. They tend to ignore the words that provide the skeleton of the language, without which it would fall apart, such as 'and' and 'what,' or words that provide structure to our conversation, such as 'hello.'

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: educator
Nationality: english
Birth: July 6, 1941

Topics

Focus Words Language Ignore Fall

My responsibility isn't to paint a flattering portrait; my responsibility is to paint a real portrait, a true portrait.

Responsibility Portrait True Paint

And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined.

John Crowe Ransom

Modernism Undefined

I always felt, right from a youngster, that it was my destiny to be a success. It sounds a little bit egotistical, but I felt I had a calling to do something.

Success Destiny Right Always Little

I want the traditional family upheld, but I don't want it upheld to the detriment of other people.

John Shelby Spong

Family People Want Traditional Other

To get the feel of how the slider should roll off of your index finger, use this grip and practice at half speed and roughly half the distance to the mound.

Practice Feel Speed Distance Half

One of the most pervasive and damaging trends we are seeing in the 21st-century workplace is the deliberate misclassification of workers by employers looking to shift responsibility and cut costs.

Responsibility Looking Seeing Trends

I love ghost stories. I remember when I was about 12, I read M. R. James' 'Ghost Stories Of An Antiquary' under the covers, way too young to fully understand what was going on with those stories, completely terrified but absolutely loved them.

Tom Goodman-Hill

Love Loved Remember Young Understand

I've had tendinitis since college.

College Since Had

Everything one reads is nourishment of some sort - good food or junk food - and one assumes it all goes in and has its way with your brain cells.

Good Food Good Food Brain Way Cells

Hip-hop can be limiting and I refuse to accept limits.

Limits Hip-Hop Accept Refuse

Wherever you are, design your life. Live the values of your generation.

Life Live Generation Design You

Complexity excites the mind, and order rewards it. In the garden, one finds both, including vanishingly small orders too complex to spot, and orders so vast the mind struggles to embrace them.

Mind Small Garden Embrace Struggles

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