"I can hardly believe that I even know this, but I am aware that Noah Webster's original dictionary, apart from being the first truly American lexicography, was a kind of line in the sand. It claimed a very discrete, American form of the English language, explicitly to compare it to the English of our erstwhile colonial masters who had been operating under Dr. Johnson's dictionary rules for well over a century."

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Source : Source: www.slate.com

Bob Garfield

#Believe Quotes #Language Quotes #Kind Quotes

“I have worked enough and I am happy to be touring the country speaking about living with MS to give people inspiration and motivation to help themselves.”
“Guitar Player Magazine says Dick Dale is the father of Heavy Metal, blowing up 48 amplifiers, creating the first power amplifier.”
“There are portions of Malibu that are very remote; it's like living in the country somewhere.”
“Parents like the idea of kids, they just don't like their kids.”
“And for a sucker play a man gets sucker pay; for the paymaster is on the job and never losses the pay envelope that is coming to you.”

Source : Edwin Lefevre (2013). “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator”, p.178, Lulu Press, Inc
“I think family movies have gotten so rich in this country.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“I love songs that have a rocking and grooving feeling.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“TV is like theater. You can't enjoy it without a program.”

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