Home / Quotes / Quote by Joe Queenan

Quote by Joe Queenan

“I was raised as a Catholic and received the body and blood of Jesus Christ every Sunday at communion until I was thirty years of age, when I became a vegetarian.”

Quote by Joe Queenan

Author

Joe Queenan is a journalist known for his wit and sharp commentary on popular culture. Born on November 3, 1950, he has made a name for himself with his distinctive voice and insightful analysis of the media landscape. more

You May Also Like

“Computer users soon learn that the miraculous powers of personal computers are based on avoidance of error.”

Computer Errors Users Miraculous Avoidance Personal Computers

Author:Robert Burchfield

“Lexicography is a chastening as well as an illuminating and fascinating art.”

Wells Art Fascinating Illuminating

Author:Robert Burchfield

“I believe it is imperative to see modern English grammar as a rich and diverse linguistic system deposited on our [England's] shores 1,500 years ago, and left with us unweakened, though substantially changed by the social and political events of the intervening period.”

Years Believe Political Left I Believe Social Rich Modern Events Changed Periods Years Ago England Shore Diverse Grammar Imperatives Intervening Modern English English Grammar

Author:Robert Burchfield

“I am sure that the two main forms of English, American English and British English, separated geographically from the beginning and severed politically since 1776, are continuing to move apart, and that existing elements of linguistic dissimilarity between them will intensify as time goes on, notwithstanding the power of the cinema, TV, Time Magazine, and other two-way gluing and fuelling devices.”

Way Two Moving Form Language Tvs Goes On Elements British Magazines Cinema Devices Continuing Two Ways Time Goes On Time Magazine American English

Author:Robert Burchfield

“In 1776, at the point of severance, except for an infusion of words from east coast Indian languages, the English language of North America was not in any radical way dissimilar from that of what the American settlers called the mother country.”

Way Country America Mother Language East Radical Indian Coast English Language North America East Coast Settlers Infusion Mother Country

Author:Robert Burchfield

“The language of Doctor Johnson and Mrs Hester Lynch Thrale, and that of their adult contemporaries, was the stately language of the time, polished, stylish, unordinary, even in the intimate pages of their diaries, and the regime of instruction was severe and practical.”

Language Pages Adults Doctors Practicals Intimate Instruction Regimes Severe Diaries Johnson Polished Stylish

Author:Robert Burchfield

“At all periods of the [English] language it is difficult to assign a beginning date to most new words and meanings. They tend to slip into the language silently, and are placed in date order only when scholars subsequently get to work.”

Order Language Difficult Periods Slips Scholar English Language New Words

Author:Robert Burchfield

“Vulgarity finds its antidote; old crudities become softened with time. Distinctions, both those that are useful and those that are burdensome, flourish and die, reflourish and die again.”

Dies Distinction Antidote Vulgarity

Author:Robert Burchfield

“Most Christians do not have fellowship with God; they have fellowship with each other about God.”

God Christian Religious Christianity Believer Missionary Fellowship Fellowship With God

Author:Paris Reidhead

“A Christian is one who rejoices in the superiority of a rival.”

Christian Christianity Rejoice Superiority Rivals

Author:Edwin Booth