People don't say 'Zounds!' anymore.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.
I was raised never to carp about things and never to moan, because in vaudeville, which is my background, you just got on with it through all kinds of adversities.
Bowie is my dad's stage name, so I was never, ever called Zowie Bowie. The tabloids liked that because it rhymed.
So often people say something and you realise you haven't really heard it.
I grew up hearing words like snakeroot, sassafras, mullein - things that had wondrous, mysterious sounds in their names.
Where words fail, music speaks.
Remember that what seems zeitgeisty today is the cause of tomorrow's bafflement or, worse, ridicule.
Sound is the vocabulary of nature.
What people are tired of, the people who agree with me, what they're tired of is listening to that sound, the sound of the people who've given up.
I think we've probably all read a word that we've never heard pronounced out loud, and we try it out in a sentence and fall on our face.