Top 34 Quotes by Erin McKean

About Erin McKean

These are some quotes by American author Erin McKean Editor, who was born in 1971.

If you say 'anti-aging,' how anti would it have to be, really? My guess is not much. Any amount of sunscreen could be considered anti-aging.

If you say 'anti-aging,' how anti would it have to be, really? My guess is not much. Any amount of sunscreen could be considered anti-aging.

Erin McKean

It's difficult to choose a Word of the Year in the year that you're in. It's one of those things that hindsight makes more apparent. It's like looking at pictures from 10 years ago, and you notice the flannel and the ripped jeans. At the time, it didn't look to you like a real fashion trend.

Erin McKean

People say jargon is a bad thing, but it's really a shortcut vocabulary professionals use to understand one another.

People say jargon is a bad thing, but it's really a shortcut vocabulary professionals use to understand one another.

Erin McKean

Most of the words you know and love and use every day are not words you learned by looking them up in a dictionary and reading a definition.

Most of the words you know and love and use every day are not words you learned by looking them up in a dictionary and reading a definition.

Erin McKean

I think we would all like to believe that every new event demands a new word. But we're environmentally conscious with our words. We recycle words we've got.

I think we would all like to believe that every new event demands a new word. But we're environmentally conscious with our words. We recycle words we've got.

Erin McKean

There are hundreds of thousands of words that aren't in any print dictionary today... because there's no space for all of them.

There are hundreds of thousands of words that aren't in any print dictionary today... because there's no space for all of them.

Erin McKean

If you're talking about how you promoted synergy in an organization, that could mean you just got everybody together for donuts twice a week.

If you're talking about how you promoted synergy in an organization, that could mean you just got everybody together for donuts twice a week.

Erin McKean

If words are doing their job, then their novelty will not be the most noticeable thing about them.

If words are doing their job, then their novelty will not be the most noticeable thing about them.

Erin McKean

The use of food metaphors is really well established English... Somebody is a peach, a hot tamale.

The use of food metaphors is really well established English... Somebody is a peach, a hot tamale.

Erin McKean

You can limit the number of invitations to an in-person fashion show, but you can't police the Internet.

You can limit the number of invitations to an in-person fashion show, but you can't police the Internet.

Erin McKean

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