Quotes About Wordplay

Q: What do you call a cow with no legs? A: Ground beef.

Q: What do you call a cow that won't give milk? A: A milk dud.

Q: Did you hear about the constipated mathematician? A: He worked it out with a pencil.

Q: Did you hear about the constipated Wheel of Fortune player? A: He wanted to buy a bowel.

A fly was very close to being called a land, because that's what it does half the time.

I have a "Do Not Disturb" sign on my hotel door. It's time to go to "Don't Disturb". It's been "Do Not" for too long. We should embrace the contraction.

On ne peut entreprendre de définir l'être sans tomber dans cette absurdité: car on ne peut définir un mot sans commencer par celui-ci, c'est, soit qu'on l'exprime ou qu'on le sous-entende. Donc pour définir l'être, il faudrait dire c'est, et ainsi employer le mot défini dans sa définition.

I guess a sock is also a geometric shape—technically—but I don't know what you'd call it. A socktagon?

Love, when spelled backwards and read phonetically, reads evil

If "con" is the opposite of pro, then isn't Congress the opposite of progress? Or did we just fucking blow your mind?!?

The highway cop said, "Walk a straight line." I said, "Well, Officer Pythagoras, the closest you could ever come to achieving a straight line would be making an electroencephalogram of your own brain waves." He said, "You're under arrest. You have the right to remain silent. Do you wish to retain that right?" I thought, "Oooh, a paradox!"

The sign red "Sky and Celery." Closer, it read "Ski and Cyclery.

The English probably do that wordplay kind of humour and whimsy better than anyone, and I've always felt that my writing goes more to that than what I did when I came to Australia.

I'm from the South, and there's a different understanding of how to chop. There's a syllable play. It's a delicate art. Your accent has a lot to do with it. If you're from a certain area, words don't roll of your tongue as slick.

Elizabeth Sarah Kowalski!" "Whoa," Evan said in a low voice. "How bad does a word have to be to get you middle-named during dirty Scrabble?

Shaun Considine

Time flies like an arrow - but fruit flies like a banana.

But are there books, books there are! Rattling words on the page calling my eyes to dance with them.

Or, as I call it, a Cheesel, it's a Weasel with a Cheese finish.

I: "Such a lovely word—why triboluminescence?" O: "I like lightbulbs." This didn't seem to answer my question but I liked it anyway.

If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.

When I first started making music, I was pretty drawn to hip-hop beats wrapped together with super-good lyrics. The most important thing in that is wordplay, so that stayed with me when I started writing songs.

I think every writer has a book that haunts them, and on some level, every book you write is a reaction to it. 'Lolita' is that book for me. Nabokov's love of wordplay, descriptive detail, artfully complex plots, and his themes of obsession and lost love, are inspiring.

He passed a hair salon called Snip Away, which sounded more like a vasectomy clinic than a beauty parlor.