David Crystal Quotes

One of the lesser-known ways of making new words is to form a blend - and a blend is when you run two words together to make a third word.

David Crystal

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TogetherWordsYouNewRunTwo

I profess accurately to describe native Africa - Africa in those places where it has not received the slightest impulse, whether for good or evil, from European civilisation.

John Hanning Speke

GoodEvilPlacesAfricaWhereThose

I could have probably raised them in L.A. and they would have been great and had so many things at their fingertips and been exposed to so many things. But we travel a lot, so I don't think that moving out of town is sheltering the girls at all. Maybe protecting them a little bit more, trying to prolong their youth.

Jennie Garth

GreatTravelYouthMovingThinkOut

That's obviously not easy. I don't want to leave the Mets; I don't want to not play in New York. It's not at all that I want to leave, but that's the business.

Matt Harvey

BusinessNew YorkEasyPlayNew

I went to live on a kibbutz, and I'd idealized the world of collective, agrarian work, where everyone was equal, everyone contributed, that all this awful European intellectual stuff just fell away.

Tony Judt

WorkLiveWorldIntellectualEqual

I look at each one of my restaurants, and I want my personality to come out. Some are serious, some are intense when it comes to food and wines, some are meat masters supreme. I enjoy all my guests.

Michael Mina

FoodPersonalityEnjoyLookSerious

I don't think there's any other issue out there that young people are more passionate, and more ahead in, than global warming.

Jose Antonio Vargas

PeopleThinkYoungAheadPassionate

Drinking intensifies all your pressures and your needs.

Desi Arnaz

YourDrinkingNeedsPressures

I don't know what the big issue is about a kiss with Neve Campbell in Wild Things. It's a role, and I think a bigger issue is made out of it. It was a part I took and it's what the character did, so I did it.

Denise Richards

CharacterKissThinkKnowWildOut

I've anchored my share of live coverage over the years, including car chases. At MSNBC, I often prayed the 'delay switch' would actually work as promised. And, I frequently wondered what I would do or say if a violent and graphic incident accidentally aired on my broadcast.

David Shuster

WorkLiveCarSayOverYears

One of my favorite memories as a kid was when the original 'Secret Wars' came out with the debut of the black costume for Spider-Man. I remember I couldn't wait to get home to read it, and I was like, 'Oh, my God, I've been waiting for this comic to come out. I hope, God forbid, nothing happens to me before I get home to read it.'

Cheo Hodari Coker

HomeGodHopeMemoriesWaitingWait

When I'm doing TV, I miss theatre, and when I'm doing theatre, I miss being in front of the camera.

Colin Donnell

TheatreDoingCameraMissBeingTV

When I first began to write fiction, I didn't think I was a comic writer; I thought I was a serious writer. I was surprised when the first novel I wrote was regarded as a funny novel.

Anthony Burgess

FunnyThinkThoughtSeriousFirst

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