Many words and expressions which only a matter of decades ago were considered so distastefully explicit that, were they merely to be breathed in public, the perpetrator would be shunned, barred from polite society, and in some extreme cases shot through the lungs, are now thought to be very healthy and proper, and their use in everyday speech and writing is seen as evidence of a well-adjusted, relaxed and totally un****ed-up personality . Douglas Adams
Some Similar Quotes
  1. All words are pegs to hang ideas on. - Henry Ward Beecher
  2. A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket. - Anonymous
  3. No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake.... - Alexander Trocchi
  4. Strong words outlast the paper they are written upon. - Joseph Bruchac
  5. A new word. Bright with possibilities. A flawless pearl to turn over and over in my hand, then put away for safekeeping. - Jennifer Donnelly
More Quotes By Douglas Adams
  1. There's always a moment when you start to fall out of love, whether it's with a person or an idea or a cause, even if it's one you only narrate to yourself years after the event: a tiny thing, a wrong word, a false note,...
  2. I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
  3. A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.
  4. This must be Thursday, ' said Arthur to himself, sinking low over his beer. 'I never could get the hang of Thursdays.
  5. We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.
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