Anu Garg Quotes

Browsing the OED is the idea of a perfect day for me.

The best way to enrich vocabulary is organically, by coming across words in their natural habitat, taking the time to learn about them, their histories, and making lifelong friends with them.

For as long as I can recall, I enjoyed reading. I literally read books from cover to cover. Then I started wondering where words come from. Who made them up? Who said that that opening in a wall was to be called a window? Then I discovered that each word comes with a biography. These words have fascinating stories to tell, if only we take the time to listen. For example, the word window comes from Old Norse in which it meant wind's eye. How much more poetic can you get?

Anu Garg triggers the kind of passionate reaction that actors, authors and memoirists would die for.

AWADies will be familiar with Anu Garg's refreshing approach to words: words are fun and they have fascinating histories.

People travel. Words travel. People settle in new lands and so do words. Did I hear someone say they wanted to make walls, close off people from one another? Here’s to more travel, more mixing, more migration, more import and export, and more sweetness in our lives!

I have a dream where society will replace guns with dictionaries.

Scientifically speaking, an overweight person is more attractive than a skinny one. Newton's Law of Gravitation.

A right word is the most direct route between two minds.

We're all surrounded by words like air, and we all need them even though they are often invisible, just like air.

When life gives you lemons make melons.

If you torture words enough, they'll confess to anything.

If you speak English, you speak at least a part of more than a hundred languages.

Do the best job I can, not hurt our fellow beings on this planet, that's my religion.

Like a human being, each word has a story. To understand a word, we need to learn where it was born, what paths it took to reach where it is today and how it has changed along the way.