Anu Garg

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

— Anu Garg

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

— Anu Garg

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

— Anu Garg

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

— Anu Garg

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.

— Anu Garg

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.

— Anu Garg

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

— Anu Garg

A lex icon.

— Anu Garg

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

— Anu Garg

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

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

— Anu Garg

Overall, the universe's apostrophe store stays in balance. It seems our linguistic world was intelligently designed -- for every gratuitous apostrophe there's an instance where it's omitted.

— Anu Garg

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

— Anu Garg

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

— Anu Garg

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.

— Anu Garg

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

— Anu Garg

When life gives you lemons make melons.

— Anu Garg

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

— Anu Garg

Eyes are verbs that conjugate the emotions.

— Anu Garg

In modern times, dogs may be pampered, but historically, a dog's life wasn't much to bark about. Hence a dog's chance is a small chance.

— Anu Garg