By the time the traditionally male lexicographers become interested in looking at fashion words, their origins are lost in the mists of time.

People say to me, ‘How do I know if a word is real?’ You know, anybody who’s read a children’s book knows that love makes things real. If you love a word, use it. That makes it real.

Lexicographers are language reporters.

Aging has been bad ever since we figured out it led to dying.

Serendipity is when you find things you weren't looking for because finding what you are looking for is so damned difficult.

Experiences is just paying attention as time passes.

I also think people should never turn down an opportunity to hold a baby. There's something about the feeling of a new baby in your arms that just fixes you.

Language is a nice way to remember things.

All language is a popularity contest.

You can weaponize nice... Being nice can make you be a little underestimated.

if you want someone to stop listening to you go ahead and yell. If you want them to listen to every word, whisper. -Mimi

I often think that men don't understand what is noble and what is ignorant, though they always talk about it.

So you believe in blood sucking fangers, but you don't believe in the existence of werewolves. What kind of narrow minded crap is that?

Every impulse that we strive to strangle broods in the mind and poisons us.

Reagan's emotional intelligence, his ability to suss out people's longings and to channel them for political purposes, was better than just about any human being that ever lived.

To be successful and grow your business and revenues, you must match the way you market your products with the way your prospects learn about and shop for your products.

It is time for everyone to sit down -the NCAA, the NBA, the players union and the coaching fraternity-and come up with suitable solutions to these problems.

The essential mark of the agitator is the high value he places on the emotional response of the public. Whether he attacks or defends social institutions is a secondary matter.

The flaw in our character is our insistence on separating blue-collar jobs from white-collar jobs, and encouraging one form of education over another.

I went to America and got into a band, had success, had hits in Australia.

Sidney Poitier became a star in part by helping black and white Americans negotiate their new relationship in the post-Civil Rights era.