Language Policing Quotes

#1. Civilization - a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures.

Malcolm Muggeridge

#2. I need to feel as if everything is clean and in its proper place before I can even attempt to write one word. At least, that's what I tell myself. I make the bed, I put away the dishes, maybe I dust, maybe I do the laundry, maybe I go to the post office.

Said Sayrafiezadeh

#3. Bindy Mackenzie talks like a horse.

Jaclyn Moriarty

#4. It says a lot about Sandberg's brand of feminism that this campaign focuses on policing language rather than bringing attention to important issues that have real impact on women and girls

Jessica Roy

#5. They'd never really been my friends; I didn't cultivate friends, I had just inherited them from my husband.

Jeff VanderMeer

#6. Repetition on things like that becomes quite painful. If you do a stunt sometimes it can look like a stunt.

Marton Csokas

#7. Kingslund's dress will be a matching one in silver. They will be absolutely exquisite. Jen would be exquisite. I'd probably look like a donkey at the races. With ribbons on it.

Mark Henwick

#8. Everyone makes mistakes, but only a few could forgive. An eye for an eye will make us all blind.

Morra Quatro

#9. When kids hit 1 year old, it's like hanging out with a miniature drunk. You have to hold onto them. They bump into things. They laugh and cry. They urinate. They vomit.

Johnny Depp

#10. Of course language is not an infallible guide, but it contains, with all its defects, a good deal of stored insight and experience.

C.S. Lewis

#11. It is my wish to delight all members of the family, young and old, parent and child.

Walt Disney

#12. The angry man wishes the object of his anger to suffer in return; hatred wishes its object not to exist.

Aristotle.

#13. Theatre's a much less faddish, more sensible world than TV or film.

Stephen Mangan

#14. I send my words to you over the ether net like a message in a bottle ...

John Geddes

#15. Sexist language, racist language, theistic language - all are typical of the policing languages of mastery, and cannot, do not, permit new knowledge or encourage the mutual exchange of ideas.

Toni Morrison

#16. Write a little. Read a little. Dick around on the internet. Post something to Pinterest or Facebook. Text a friend. Write some more. Curse it because it's shit. Write some more. Repeat.

Katrina Monroe