Anu Garg Quotes

Anu Garg is an American author and speaker. He is also founder of Wordsmith.org, an online community comprising word lovers from an estimated 200 countries. His books explore the joy of words. He has authored several books about language-related issues and written for magazines and newspapers. He was a columnist for MSN Encarta and Kahani magazine. Wikipedia  

✵ 5. April 1967
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Famous Anu Garg Quotes

“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.”

The Philomath Speaks An Interview with Anu Garg (Dec 15, 2009) http://www.nas.org/articles/The_Philomath_Speaks_An_Interview_with_Anu_Garg

“There are exotic species of words jumping out inviting me to play. I weave them into a theme, a garland of words.”

2000-12-01
Smithsonian
WARNING: Log-o-phil-ia is Addictive
Rudolph
Chelminski

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

2001-09-26
A Word a Day -- Say, 'Gasconade' -- Keeps Boredom at Bay
Susan G. Hauser
The Wall Street Journal

“A large vocabulary is like an artist having a big palette of colors. We don't have to use all the colors in a single painting, but it helps to be able to find just the right shade when we need it.”

The Philomath Speaks An Interview with Anu Garg (Dec 15, 2009) http://www.nas.org/articles/The_Philomath_Speaks_An_Interview_with_Anu_Garg

“All the life's wisdom can be found in anagrams. Anagrams never lie.”

In Internet Anagram Server http://wordsmith.org/anagram

Anu Garg Quotes

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

As quoted in * http://learningenglish.voanews.com/content/a-23-2005-11-15-voa1-83125067/117153.html
2005-11-15
VOA News
Avi
Arditti

“A lex icon.”

Describing the Oxford English Dictionary in The Globe & Mail http://wordsmith.org/awad/article-globeandmail.html

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

A.Word.A.Day (Feb 17, 2014) http://wordsmith.org/words/escutcheon.html

“When life gives you lemons make melons.”

Facebook post alluding to anagrams https://www.facebook.com/wordsmithorg/posts/10157846756531840

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

2002-11-28
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/28/technology/circuits/28garg.html?src=pm&pagewanted=all
A Word of the Day Keeps Banality at Bay
The New York Times
Katie Hafner

“A word in the head is worth two in the book.”

A.Word.A.Day (May 7, 2007) http://wordsmith.org/words/stormy_petrel.html

“English never met a word it didn't like.”

On English's propensity to borrow words from other languages, quoted in * 2000-12-01
Smithsonian
WARNING: Log-o-phil-ia is Addictive
Rudolph
Chelminski

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

Facebook post https://www.facebook.com/wordsmithorg/posts/10157765608546840

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

2002-02-01
The Wondiferous Wizard of Words
Reader's Digest
Rudolph
Chelminski

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

A.Word.A.Day (Jan 17, 2011) http://wordsmith.org/words/intromit.html

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

On Finding Great Anagrams http://wordsmith.org/anagram/tips.html

“Garg works in the great tradition of Wilfred Funk and Norman Lewis… Garg, however, is more fun.”

Minneapolis Star Tribune
Robert
Armstrong
2003-02-23
Just the right books for when words fail you

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

Kevin
Johnson
USA Today
2003-01-01
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/news/2003-01-02-email-book_x.htm
He spread the words, one e-mail at a time

“Only Anu Garg, the founder of Wordsmith. org, can make word facts this much fun.”

Samantha
Puckett
St. Petersburg Times
2003-01-19
Writing Life

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