Quotations Weblog

How long until we end this?

Just wondering, because, you know, people are dying.

Sheldon Comics wrote about Shakespeare and how many words he coined:

• Sheldon: Shakespeare Part 1

• Sheldon: Shakespeare Part 2

There is a book about the subject called Coined by Shakespeare: Words and Meanings First Penned by the Bard by Stanley Malless and Jeffrey McQuain. If you would like a taste of the words he introduced to the English language, here is a brief list:

Nouns:
accused, addiction, alligator, amazement, anchovies, assassination, backing, bandit, bedroom, bump, buzzers, courtship, critic, dauntless, dawn, design, dickens, discontent, embrace, employer, engagements, excitements, exposure, eyeball, fixture, futurity, glow, gust, hint, immediacy, investments, kickshaws, leapfrog, luggage, manager, mimic, misgiving, mountaineer, ode, outbreak, pageantry, pedant, perusal, questioning, reinforcement, retirement, roadway, rumination, savagery, scuffles, shudders, switch, tardiness, transcendence, urging, watchdog, wormhole, zany

Verbs:
besmirch, bet, blanket, cake, cater, champion, compromise, cow, denote, deracinate, dialogue, dislocate, divest, drug, dwindle, elbow, enmesh, film, forward, gossip, grovel, hobnob, humour, hurry, impedes, jet, jig, label, lapse, lower, misquote, negotiate, numb, pander, partner, petition, puke, rant, reword, secure, submerge, swagger, torture, unclog

Adjectives:
aerial, auspicious, baseless, beached, bloodstained, blushing, circumstantial, consanguineous, deafening, disgraceful, domineering, enrapt, epileptic, equivocal, eventful, fashionable, foregone, frugal, generous, gloomy, gnarled, hush, inaudible, invulnerable, jaded, juiced, lackluster, laughable, lonely, lustrous, madcap, majestic, marketable, monumental, nervy, noiseless, oscene, olympian, premeditated, promethean, quarrelsome, radiance, rancorous, reclusive, remorseless, rival, sacrificial, sanctimonious, softhearted, splitting, stealthy, traditional, tranquil, unmitigated, unreal, varied, vaulting, viewless, widowed, worthless, yelping

Adverbs:
importantly, instinctively, obsequiously, threateningly, tightly, trippingly, unaware

There are so many words on that list that it just amazes me. How did they even speak without these words?

Miranda July created an entertaining website to promote her book, No One Belongs Here More Than You. You can see it here:

• No one belongs here more than you. Stories by Miranda July

I was so charmed by the website that I ordered the book without knowing anything else about the writer except that she was willing to write on her appliances to advertise her book.

The book is a quick read and I highly recommend you visit your local library and check it out. Be warned, however, the title of the book should have been: Miranda July’s Collection of Disturbing Little Stories.

Pretty Annoying Virtues: doesn’t that sound like a great band name?

As long as the sinners don’t get me thrown in jail.

Sometimes, in the end, it is best to just accept our friends for what they are.

Unshelved did a review of The Plain Janes by Cecil Castellucci (Author), Jim Rugg (Illustrator) a few months ago.

• Unshelved comic strip – The Plain Janes

I like the idea of a girl who doesn’t want to hang out with the cool kids and spends more time with the artsy and smartsy girls. I didn’t do nearly enough of that when I was in high school. I tried so hard to be popular.

In the end, my best friends are the people who stuck with me no matter how popular (or not) I was. I am still friends with them to this day. I wish I had spent more time hanging with them in the computer lab and less time avoiding date rape at the drunken football parties.