According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary.

Many a person has been saved from summer alcoholism, not to mention hypertoxicity, by Dostoyevsky.

Obama's got a great sense of humor, but mainly he has a great thinking presence, which is uncommon. It's hard to imagine being able to do, think over answers and deliver them on television. If I were president I would constantly be spluttering.

Usage ain't always a matter of ought.

Cats have intercepted my footsteps at the ankle for so long that my gait, both at home and on tour, has been compared to that of a man wading through low surf.

According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary.

Vincent van Gogh's mother painted all of his best things. The famous mailed decapitated ear was a figment of the public relations firm engaged by Van Gogh's dealer.