Lexical Quotes

#1. The difficulties besetting the translators of the LXX were very great. It was almost impossible to reproduce the native inimitableness of a Semitic language in an Aryan tongue. They had to adopt new constructions, some lexical and syntactical forms which were foreign to the older Greek.

John Courtenay James

#2. Any grand new dictionary ought itself to be a democratic product, a book that demonstrated the primacy of individual freedoms, of the notion that one could use words freely, as one liked, without hard and fast rules of lexical conduct.

Simon Winchester

#3. The text is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more or less important than the sociological, psychological, historical, anthropological or generic.

Leslie Fiedler

#4. The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.

Larry Wall

#5. In English, we don't have a word for people who aren't virgins. What the non-virgin lexical gap really made me think was that our obsession with sexual purity is such that once you are no longer this THING, you are indescribable.

John Green

#6. What I value in books is lucidity. I want the language to be rich; I love lexical fireworks on the page, but I have to know what it means. I want to be surprised and delighted, not merely baffled.

Mal Peet

#7. When I write the set, I try to create something that will not only be interesting for the audience, but will have a flow for the band, too, so we don't get boring.

Dave Matthews

#8. Anton Bruckner wrote the same symphony nine times, trying to get it just right. He failed.

Edward Abbey

#9. Since we must eat to live, we might as well do it with both grace and gusto.

M.F.K. Fisher

#10. I am in love with all the characters I have played. And it is impossible to choose the best.

Manju Warrier

#11. You'll get used to it. In the end you won't even notice it anymore," he said.
"How is that possible? It will always be there, right before my eyes."
"Exactly," said Mattia. "Which is precisely why you won't see it anymore.

Paolo Giordano

#12. It took teams of LEP warlocks to slow down time for a few hours; the magic required to open a door to the tunnel was stupendous. It would be easier to shoot down the moon.
Opal tapped this into her notepad.
Reminder. Shoot down the moon? Viable?

Eoin Colfer

#13. If he could only prevent himself growing up! He did not want to be a man.

Thomas Hardy

#14. It's not wise to rely on a man's ability to remember anything.

Jeri Smith-Ready

#15. Generations of human beings were transformed into machines in the relentless pursuit of material wealth: We lived to work.

Jeremy Rifkin

#16. We'll only be playing four new songs live, but all the material for the next album is basically finished.

Daisy Berkowitz

#17. She gives the night its dreams.

Chris Cornell

#18. The trouble is that each of us is his own hero, existing in a world of spear carriers.

Alexei Panshin

#19. Never say always... Never say never.


***Be careful what you wish for***

Piper Stewart

#20. Beware of those who try to sell you simple answers to complex questions.

Scott Adams