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

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.

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

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.

One person really can make a difference. Each person is the revolution.

I see myself as sexy. If you are comfortable with it, it can be very classy and appealing.

By repenting, one acknowledges them as sins-therefore not to be repeated.

I just felt like I can try to do something special.

Most actors will tell you they have some sort of dream of doing something other than what they're doing.

A big part of making an album is that you want to have enough material - you want to have enough stuff for people to hear and know that it represents you.

In theory there is nothing to hinder our following what we are taught;but in life there are many things to draw us aside.

Take a chance on faith - not religion, but faith. Not hope, but faith. I don’t believe in hope. Hope is a beggar. Hope walks through the fire. Faith leaps over it.

Seaboard Air Line, which was thought by numerous innocents to provide a foothold in aviation, was another favorite, although, in fact, it was a railroad.

Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge.