top of page
"Me fail english? Thats unpossible."
Standard
Customized
Exlpore more Language quotes

"They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Conundrum: A fun word to repeat over and over again when no one's listening. Actual meaning is as puzzling as the need to chant the word."
Author Name
Personal Development

"The wonder of words."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Jeez, Hazel," Percy said, "tell your horse to watch his language."Hazel tried not to laugh. "What did he say?""With the cussing removed? He said he can get us to the top."Frank looked incredulous. "I thought the horse couldn't fly!"This time Arion whinnied so angrily, even Hazel could guess he was cursing."Dude," Percy told the horse, "I've gotten suspended for saying less than that..."
Author Name
Personal Development

"But language is wine upon his lips."
Author Name
Personal Development

"If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Perhaps then one reason why we have no great poet, novelist or critic writing today is that we refuse to allow words their liberty. We pin them down to one meaning, their useful meaning: the meaning which makes us catch the train, the meaning which makes us pass the examination."
Author Name
Personal Development

"NE'TWORK: Any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections.......RETI'CULATED: Made of network; formed with interstitial vacuities."
Author Name
Personal Development

"In Sanskrit words are like living beings; depending on context, circumstance and environment their mood varies and meaning differs."
Author Name
Personal Development

"Percy, we're going to Polyphemus' island! Polyphemus is an S-i-k...a C-y-k..." She stamped her foot in frustration. As smart as she was, Annabeth was dyslexic, too. We could've been there all night while she tried to spell Cyclops. "You know what I mean!"
Author Name
Personal Development
Explore more quotes by Matt Groening

"One of the things I would like to do is make up stories that I would have enjoyed when I was a kid. So, if I'm thinking about an audience, it's usually a younger version of myself."
Thinking

"It's a funny show. The characters are surprisingly likable, given how ugly they are. We've got this huge cast of characters that we can move around. And over the last few seasons, we've explored some of the secondary characters' personal lives a bit more."
Funny

"When authorities warn you of the sinfulness of sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities."
Sex

"I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I will do it again."
Will

"We've got a bunch of new writers now who tell me they grew up watching The Simpsons. It's bizarre, and they're writing some very funny stuff."
Funny

"Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come."
Love

"Me fail english? Thats unpossible."
Language

"Families are about love overcoming emotional torture."
Love

"Don't have a cow, man."
Man

"God often gives nuts to toothless people."
God
bottom of page