Quotes About Wordplay

Ancient oceanic proverb: The enemy of my anemone is my frenanemone.

For the name Barclay, you could use bar clay or bark lay; for Smolenski, a small lens (camera) skiing; for Caruthers, a car with udders; for Krakowitz, cracker wits; for Frankesni, frank (hot dog) has knee; for Esposito, expose a toe; for Dalrymple, doll rumple; for Kolodny, colored knee; for Androfkavitz, Ann drop car witch; for Giordano, jawed on O; for Virostek, virile stick; and so on.

A very long time ago, my brother and I played a game each morning while we waited for the school bus to arrive. We called the game Beethoven, and my sister refused to play because she thought it was inane. "Inane" is a word which here means that my brother and I would pretend we couldn't hear each other very well while we were talking.

The word "bubble" is in the dictionary, for instance, as is the word "peacock," the word "vacation," and the words "the" "author's" "execution" "has" "been" "canceled," which make up a sentence that is always pleasant to hear.

The idea of beetles came into my head. I decided to spell it BEATles to make it look like beat music, just a joke.

It was written all in O, or nearly so, and all the O's are gone, said Andrea. When coat is cat, and boat is bat, and goatherd looks like gathered, and booth is both, since both are bth, the reader's eye is bothered. And power is power, and zero zer, and, worst of all, a hero's her. The old man sighed as he said it. Anoon is ann, and moan is man. Andrea smiled as she said it. And shoe, Andreus said, is she. Ah, woe, the old man said, is we.

What a difference a vowel makes! If his rents were but equal to his rants!

I love the English language, playing with words, watching sentences fit together like pieces of a jigsaw puzzle

he couldn't think of a single word to rhyme with Enovid.

My being a writer and playing Scrabble are connected. If I have a good writing day, I'll take a break and play online Scrabble. My favorite word as a child was 'carrion,' before I knew what it meant. I later created crossword puzzles, which was a lot about puns, and how words would create these strange, strange things.

Puns are the E. coli of humor,

I thought of a bad pun: "I'm going from bad to Hearst.

Strictly speaking, she thought, this place was a cross between a forest and a jungle. "This is a jorest," she said to Hemi. "Yeah," he said. "No, it's a fungle." They grinned.

I still prefer 'pre-Cleavage' but it makes an unfortunate pun in English

Actually, it's a new word—one I invented and wrote down with my frindle!

What gets wetter the more it dries?

But why does your uncle need all these books? Is he some kind of squirrel nut?" Andrew laughed. "Touché, Kyle. Very clever." Sierra laughed, too. "I get it. Squirrel—nut." "And Uncle Woody was squirreling away all the squirrel books he could!

Ah," said Jake. "Very tricky, Jenna. The answer, of course, is 'diner.' 'Fiend' is the word you would get if you took away one letter—'r' in this instance—but didn't rearrange the letters. 'Diner' fulfills both criteria specified in the question.

This man is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno, he's Frank and in Chicago he's Ernest.

Memoirs of Martinus Scriblerus (1741), a scurrilous burlesque, written mostly by John Arbuthnot, that poked fun at Grub Street twittishness. He chose this indelicate item because it was a source of interesting words like 'chicanery', 'confidant', 'troglodyte' and 'piazza', and even the distinctly modern-sounding 'skylight'.

Can you do Division? Divide a loaf by a knife - what's the answer to that?

Why it's simply impassible! Alice: Why, don't you mean impossible? Door: No, I do mean impassible. (chuckles) Nothing's impossible!

Interestingly, 'October Sky' is an anagram of 'Rocket Boys', the same letters just moved around. This was discovered by director Joe Johnston using an anagram program on his computer.

The name is Schitt, he replied. Jack Schitt.