Ordinary language blinkers the already feeble imagination. --Austin, Papers 68.

Faced with the nonsense question 'What is the meaning of a word?' and perhaps dimly recognizing it to be nonsense, we are nevertheless not inclined to give it …

[I]f we say that I only get at the symptoms of his anger, that carries an important implication. But is this the way we do talk? --Austin, Papers 107.

It may justly be urged that, properly speaking, what alone has meaning is a sentence. --Austin, Papers 56.

Perhaps it is the power of memory that gives rise to the power of imagination.

It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.

nothing is quite as easy as using words like somebody else. We all of us do exactly this nearly all of the time -and whenever we do it, we are not poets.