Robert McCrum quotes

“English plus Microsoft equals a new cultural revolution a global means of communication that is irrepressibly contagious, adaptable, populist and subversive.”
-- Robert McCrum

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“Language follows its own path. It can bridge gulfs of class and geography in the most remarkable ways.”
-- Robert McCrum

Source : Robert McCrum, William Cran, Robert MacNeil (2003). “The Story of English”, Penguin Group USA

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“Communication is so much better when people are vulnerable.”

“We are living in an era in which billions of people are grappling to promote communication, tolerance, and understanding over the more destructive forces of war, terrorism, and political chaos that have characterized the beginning of the 21st Century.”

“The people who matter will recognize who you are.”

“The whole bible is the working out of the relationship between God and man. God is not a dictator barking out orders and demanding silent obedience. Were it so, there would be no relationship at all. No real relationship goes just one way. There are always two active parties. We must have reverence and awe for God, and honor for the chain of tradition. But that doesn't mean we can't use new information to help us read the holy texts in new ways.”

“The pattern of a newspaperman's life is like the plot of 'Black Beauty.' Sometimes he finds a kind master who gives him a dry stall and an occasional bran mash in the form of a Christmas bonus, sometimes he falls into the hands of a mean owner who drives him in spite of spavins and expects him to live on potato peelings.”

“Our fans want us to be happy and if that means being married or having a girlfriend, they are okay with that. Of course, in this industry it is a bit harder to have normal relationships, but it is possible.”

“You know, you look at the chaos in the conservative camp right now, it's only too tempting to blame it all on pot. But in fact, the Reagan revolution owes a lot to Reefer. For one thing, it's made the symptoms of senility socially acceptable.”

“If today I stand here as a revolutionary, it is as a revolutionary against the Revolution.”

“I'm really not one about reform, I'm about tearing it down, revolution”

“If I can't have a revolution, what is there to dance about.”