Words Quotes
Words carry more weight than we plan for.
This set spans the everyday and the pointed - a playful warning about overusing absolute words like "always" and "never," and a reminder that English still has more words than any one person can hold in their head. Related reading in Good Quotes.
I think all art - if it's good - is a result of really trying to create something that you can't put into words. Where language ends is where good art begins.
The writing is really important in books that affect me. I read for the writing. The story is usually of less interest to me. It's the words that break your heart.
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We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
He puts his right hand lightly on the cup, I put my left, leaving the right free to transcribe, and away we go. We get, oh, 500 to 600 words an hour. Better than gasoline.
Encourage your own curiosity; pursue the problems based on that. Don't get diverted by trying to do things for your own advancement. In other words, don't be lured into responding to incentives.
Don't get diverted by trying to do things for your own advancement. In other words, don't be lured into responding to incentives.
I remember from my school days Archimedes jumping into his bath and displacing water and coming up with his famous principle, and of course Isaac Newton being hit on the head with an apple. In other words, this realm of...
As a combat medic, I heard a lot of last words; I saw a lot of last breaths taken.
I held 18, 19, or 20-year-old men in my arms, and I heard their last words, and I saw them take their last breath.
Words played an important part in my growing up. Not only the written word... but words that flew through the air: jokes, riddles, puns.
My family was always playing with words. It is little wonder that even after I got serious about writing, I've had a hard time getting serious about words.
I became an author because I love words. I enjoyed playing with them when I was a kid, writing stories and plays, and doing whatever I could think to do with words. I kept my love of them growing up...
The one thing that no Anglo-Saxon can stand is to be ruled by someone who 'talks fancy' by using Latinate words too often.
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