Quotes About Wordplay

I started putting words together, making rhymes and being witty with the wordplay. I can play a little bit of guitar, and that's something I'm going to dedicate more time to doing.

And that whole do-able/undo-able thing? Yeah. Need I point out that neither Ruth nor I have ever done anybody in our lives?

Ajouter deux lettres à Paris, c'est le paradis.

Half of an Assassin is just an Ass.

you can't spell assassin without sin and twice the ass.

You're robbing the cradle, then," he said. Humor filled his face. "You're a cougar." Laughter burbled out of me, part of it relieved nerves, the other part surprise at the play on words. "I'm not that kind of cougar," I said, my tone lofty.

Your name's longer'n you are.

But didn't you say you were satisfied with your life? Word games, I dismissed. Every army needs a flag.

Lil Wayne was a big inspiration. Started listening to him like 6 years old. His lyrics are crazy, his wordplay and how different he was stood out.

Apéritif: French for a set of dentures.

What is a Bongaloo, Daddy?" A Bongaloo, Son," said I, Is a tall bag of cheese Plus a Chinaman's knees And the leg of a nanny goat's eye

Do what? Come up with a clever pun referencing Jerome's demonic status? The truth is, I usually keep a stash of them on hand and—

I love astute observations and really great wordplay. I love the way that Louis C.K. observes life, and I love the way Patton Oswalt talks about it.

To be fair, English is full of booby traps for the unwary foreigner. Any language where the unassuming word fly signifies an annoying insect, a means of travel, and a critical part of a gentleman's apparel is clearly asking to be mangled.

Even Christ reputedly made a pun when He said: "Thou art Peter: upon this rock I shall build my Church." It doesn't make a lot of sense from the wordplay point of view until you realize that in ancient Greek the word for Peter and for rock was the same.

Sweetheart was originally sweetard

The sun's not yellow, its chicken!

malapropism

I love an iPad game of Scrabble.

I start with the joke line and write backward.

What's the odd one out between an egg, a drum, and a potato?' Ronan shook his head, mystified. 'You can beat an egg. You can beat a drum. But you can't beat a potato. D'you get it, do you?

Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.

I hate it when my food adjectives its own noun.

I've found the world's most versatile word - 'cheeky.' The amount of ways you guys can use the word 'cheeky' is quite impressive.