Casey Miller (Casey Geddes Miller) Quotes

Our native language is like a second skin, so much a part of us we resist the idea that it is constantly changing, constantly being renewed.

Casey Miller

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At last, in 1611, was made, under the auspices of King James, the famous King James version; and this is the great literary monument of the English language.

Lafcadio Hearn
- Great
- English
- Language
If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.

G. Willow Wilson
- People
- Ideas
- Fight
Yiddish, originally, in Eastern Europe was considered the language of children, of the illiterate, of women. And 500 years later, by the 19th century, by the 18th century, writers realized that, in order to communicate with the masses, they could no longer write in Hebrew. They needed to write in Yiddish, the language of the population.

Ilan Stavans
- Women
- Children
- Language
I like using animals because they help suspend my reader's disbelief. We have certain ideas about dentists. We don't have many ideas about rhinoceros dentists.

Yann Martel
- Help
- Ideas
- Animals
My office in Milan is in an old factory. I have all my companies here, including Italia Independent and Independent Ideas.

Lapo Elkann
- Ideas
- Independent
- Old
Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.

Flora Lewis
- Different
- Words
- Learning