"Vocabulary is a matter of word-building as well as word-using."

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Source : "The History Of 7 Bizarre English Words" by David Crystal, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 27, 2012.

David Crystal

#Vocabulary Quotes #Matter Quotes #Building Quotes

“Affection makes fools. Always, without exception, love digs a channel that's sooner or later flooded by the briny water of despair.”

Source : Sonya Hartnett (2006). “Surrender”, Candlewick Press (MA)
“I think I can only help to expose percussion to all sorts of people. The balance between the lighter and more serious side is important.”
“There is no man so low down that the cure for his condition does not lie strictly within himself.”

Source : Thomas Lansing Masson (1929). “Ascensions”
“Now, each of us has his own special gift And you know this was meant to be true. And if you don't underestimate me I won't underestimate you.”
“I do love to perform. And I'm ever so grateful that this has turned into a job with a future.”
“To be proven wrong should be celebrated, for it is elevating someone to a new level of understanding, furthering awareness.”
“If you focus on what you left behind, you'll never be able to see what lies ahead.”
“I think that if you were somehow able to measure the weight of human kindness, it would have weighed more on 9/11 than it ever had. On 9/11, all the hatred and murder could not compare with the weight of love, of bravery, of caring. I have to believe that.”

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