Dishevelled Quotes

“All three were wild-haired and bedraggled, as if they had just staggered from a fight to the death with a family of chimpanzees.”
― Kevin Ansbro, The Minotaur's Son & Other Wild Tales

“As for the immediate importance of the study of ambiguity, it would be easy enough to take up an alarmist attitude, and say that the English language needs nursing by the analyst very badly indeed. Always rich and dishevelled, it is fast becoming very rich and dishevelled…”
― William Empson, Seven Types of Ambiguity