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... →
David Crystal
The trouble with the dictionary is that you have to know how a word is spelled before you can look it up to see how it is spelled.
Will Cuppy
Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
e. e. cummings
Sometimes I say I feel more like a dancer than an actor, because there are things implied about being an actor that I don't really like. I feel... →
Willem Dafoe
I don't think there's any way it could have failed. We don't know failure in this band. We didn't know failure. We got to know it a... →
Roger Daltrey
If I do a bit on stage, I prepare too much. Those bits are all really, really carefully written, and overwritten, and researched. I really don't... →
Andy Daly
The first 'Saturday Night Live' season I was heavily interested in was the one with Martin Short, Billy Crystal, and Christopher Guest. There... →
The word survivor suggests someone who has emerged alive from a plane crash or a natural disaster. But the word can also refer to the loved ones of... →
Godfried Danneels
Obedience to the word in humility of mind never confuses.
John Nelson Darby
I had always owned them to be the Word of God... the careful reading of the Acts afforded me a practical picture of the early church; which made me... →