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Swearing makes an excellent relief mechanism
— David Crystal
You don't talk to a linguist without having what you say taken down and used in evidence against you at some point in time.
— David Crystal
Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of argument.
— David Crystal
I would be content being a housewife if I could find the kind of man who wouldn't treat me like one.
— Terry McMillan
Joke exchanges are carried on in deadly earnest, like a verbal duel-mouth-to-mouth combat. Bang, bang: you're (linguistically) dead.
— David Crystal
Vocabulary is a matter of word-building as well as word-using.
— David Crystal
Sending a message on a mobile phone is not the most natural of ways to communicate. The keypad isn't linguistically sensible.
— David Crystal
There is little scientific data on the point, but evidently people do speak to themselves.
— David Crystal
A feature of English that makes it different compared with all other languages is its global spread.
— David Crystal
In effect we are, bending and breaking the rules of the language. And if someone were to ask why we do it, the answer is simply: for fun
— David Crystal
Anyone interested in language ends up writing about the sociological issues around it.
— David Crystal
Although many texters enjoy breaking linguistic rules, they also know they need to be understood.
— David Crystal
Mindfulness is both a state of being and a daily spiritual practice, a form of meditation.
— David Richo
Language changes and moves in a different direction evolving all the time. Where a lot of people see deterioration, I see expressive development
— David Crystal
Racing drivers have balls, unfortunantly, none of them are crystal
— David Coulthard
Look deep inside, and when you locate the sadness, give it a vacation, and focus on the simple things.
— Larry Norman
Language itself changes slowly but the internet has speeded up the process of those changes so you notice them more quickly.
— David Crystal
The internet is an amazing medium for languages,
— David Crystal
Texting has added a new dimension to language use, but its long-term impact is negligible. It is not a disaster.
— David Crystal
As I get older and I get a few more years experience I become more like Dad, you know, King Lear.
— David Crystal
No one is so good that they don't need the grace of the gospel, nor so bad that they can't receive the grace of the gospel.
— Timothy Keller
He who receives an injury is to some extent an accomplice of the wrong-doer.
— Henry David Thoreau
The only languages which do not change are dead ones.
— David Crystal
Bedivere replied softly, 'There are more things under the heavens than we can ever imagine Sire.
— Rosie Morgan
It is talk such as that which will cost us victory,
— Joseph R. Lallo
It hasn't been a problem with Ben, I think we worked together very well, we don't have rows.
— David Crystal
The woman's function is to fascinate men.
— George Balanchine