Anu Garg Quotes
born 1967 India
Anu Garg (born April 5, 1967) is an American author, speaker, and columnist. He is the founder of Wordsmith.org, an online community of wordlovers.
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I have a dream where society will replace guns with dictionaries.
If you speak English, you speak at least a part of more than a hundred languages.
A right word is the most direct route between two minds.
A word in the head is worth two in the book.
Do the best job I can, not hurt our fellow beings on this planet, that's my religion.
Like a human being, each word has a story. To understand a word, we need to learn where it was born, what paths it took to reach where it is today and how it has changed along the way.
If you torture words enough, they'll confess to anything.
Browsing the OED is the idea of a perfect day for me.
All the life's wisdom can be found in anagrams. Anagrams never lie.
English never met a word it didn't like.
A large vocabulary is like an artist having a big palette of colors. We don't have to use all the colors in a single painting, but it helps to be able to find just the right shade when we need it.
We're all surrounded by words like air, and we all need them even though they are often invisible, just like air.
The best way to enrich vocabulary is organically, by coming across words in their natural habitat, taking the time to learn about them, their histories, and making lifelong friends with them.
Overall, the universe's apostrophe store stays in balance. It seems our linguistic world was intelligently designed -- for every gratuitous apostrophe there's an instance where it's omitted.
Eyes are verbs that conjugate the emotions.
There are exotic species of words jumping out inviting me to play. I weave them into a theme, a garland of words.
The verb "fuck" has been a part of the language since at least early 1500s. The actual practice, far longer. So, no need to be embarrassed of either.
Scientifically speaking, an overweight person is more attractive than a skinny one. Newton's Law of Gravitation.
When life gives you lemons make melons.
People travel. Words travel. People settle in new lands and so do words. Did I hear someone say they wanted to make walls, close off people from one another? Here’s to more travel, more mixing, more migration, more import and export, and more sweetness in our lives!