Serendipity is when you find things you weren't looking for because finding what you are looking for is so damned difficult.

People say to me, ‘How do I know if a word is real?’ You know, anybody who’s read a children’s book knows that love makes things real. If you love a word, use it. That makes it real.

By the time the traditionally male lexicographers become interested in looking at fashion words, their origins are lost in the mists of time.

Lexicographers are language reporters.

Aging has been bad ever since we figured out it led to dying.

Experiences is just paying attention as time passes.

I also think people should never turn down an opportunity to hold a baby. There's something about the feeling of a new baby in your arms that just fixes you.

Language is a nice way to remember things.

All language is a popularity contest.

You can weaponize nice... Being nice can make you be a little underestimated.

if you want someone to stop listening to you go ahead and yell. If you want them to listen to every word, whisper. -Mimi

Sometimes the most beautiful things are in front of our eyes, and we don’t even notice because we’re either too busy or too afraid to take a closer look.

May God direct your path.

Night coaxed out the stars, my jailers.

If a person seeks after the knowledge of God, he will certainly be a conqueror.

Music was like my first real toy. I was an only child for a while, and I was alone a lot of the time - and I liked it. I still like being alone.

The education of the common people requires, perhaps, in a civilized and commercial society, the attention of the public more than that of people of some rank and fortune.

Hoes want attention, women want respect.

I want to live the next chapter in my life without my lips as my defining characteristic.

First they ignore you, then they denounce you, and then they say that they knew what you were saying all the time.

I love this city. If I am elected, I'll move the White House to San Francisco. Everybody's so friendly.