Top 17 Jean Aitchison Quotes
#1. Heaven's Virginia when the year's at its Spring.
Anne Spencer
#2. Word meanings are like stretchy pullovers, whose outline contour is visible, but whose detailed shape varies with use.
Jean Aitchison
#3. Purists behave as if there was a vintage year when language achieved a measure of excellence which we should all strive to maintain. In fact, there was never such a year. The language of Chaucer's or Shakespeare's time was no better and no worse than that of our own - just different.
Jean Aitchison
#4. In Heathrow a vast chunk of memory detached itself from a blank bowl of airport sky and fell on him. He vomited into a blue plastic canister without breaking stride.
William Gibson
#5. Schaeffer gave me permission to work in the studio with a technician, but I've never worked with him.
Karlheinz Stockhausen
#6. How often have I tried just hard enough so that I can then say to myself that I tried with the real purpose of assuaging my guilt about something I did not wish to succeed in the first place?
Lawrence Fagg
#7. America is a crippled giant, England is a sick gnome.
David Hare
#8. Your work matters a great deal to God, to others and to our world. There is no ordinary work. The work God has called you to do is extraordinary. Don't miss out on God's best by taking an ordinary approach to it.
Tom Nelson
#9. We have what we can hold, dear boy, and never let them see you flinch or falter.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#10. I do not make love, Miss Bennet," he had told her."I bonk. I have it off. I get my end way, I rodger, I boff.
William Codpiece Thwackery
#11. About 800 million people in India are below the age of 35 years. Their aspirations, energy, enterprise and skills will be the force for India's economic transformation.
Narendra Modi
#12. Ease up on yourselves. Have some compassion for yourself as well as for others. There's no such thing as perfection, and life is not a race.
Doug Marlette
#14. Rationality belongs to the cool observer, but because of the stupidity of the average man, he follows not reason, but faith, and the naive faith requires necessary illusion and emotionally potent oversimplifications which are provided by the myth-maker to keep ordinary person on course.
Reinhold Niebuhr
#15. Public "facts" are not like pebbles on the beach, lying in the sun and waiting to be seen. They must instead be picked, polished, shaped and packaged. Finally ready for display they the bear the marks of their shapers.
Peter Conrad
#16. Language change is not a disease, any more than adolescence, or autumn are illnesses.
Jean Aitchison
#17. I'm not a girl who started getting into music and using my femininity to get attention. When I was getting into it, it was all pure skill.
Lizzo
