Quotes About Words

I'm rubber and you're glue, and whatever you say bounces off me and sticks to you.

Bop-u-top nop-o-bop-o-dop-yop kop-nop-o-wop-sop hop-o-wop top-o sop-pop-e-a-kop 'op-talk.

I am Rose Howard and my first name has a homonym. To be accurate, it has a homophone, which is a word that's pronounced the same as another word but spelled differently.

Clearing the Brie from someone's arteries?" I said. I thought Seth and Mommy were going to fall over laughing. "Debris is stuff that's blown into the street. And that's what they mean by arteries — streets.

A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.

Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.

Grammar, which is the art of using words properly, comprises four parts: Orthography, Etymology, Syntax, and Prosody.

APOCOPE  (APO'COPE)   n.s.[  figure in grammar,when the last letter or syllable of a word is taken away; as, ingeni for ingenii.

I consider the English alphabet only as it is English;

Scrambling, outfacing, fashion-mongring boys,That lye, and cog, and flout, deprave, and slander,Go antickly, and shew an outward hideousness,And speak of half a dozen dangerous words.Shakesp.Much ado about Nothing.

In narration he affects a disproportionate pomp of diction and a wearisome train of circumlocution, and tells the incident imperfectly in many words, which might have been more plainly delivered in few.

For pronunciation the best general rule is, to consider those as the most elegant speakers who deviate least from the written words.

Prose: words in their best order; poetry: the best words in the best order.

poetry: the best words in the best order." — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Although only breath, words which I command are immortal.

Hubba-Hubba' never slips out, Zeke said. You selected those words with deliberate intent, and I question your commitment to the respectable use of the English language.

Lawyers make their living mincing words. Many devote their skill and hard labor to constructing the apparatus of justification.

I was beginning to see, though, that the unknown wasn't always the greatest thing to fear. The people who know you best can be risker, because the words they say and things they think have the potential to be not only scary but true, as well.

Their words, like the music, had the potential to be endless.

Look at it this way: I might be saying you're fat, but at least I'm not punching you in the face.' Are those the only options?' Not always. Just sometimes.

Honestly, I said. What? Come on. You have to admit it's sort of ridiculous. What is? Now that I had to define it, I found myself struggling for the right words. You know, I said, then figured Kristy had really summed it up best. The sa-woon. The what? Wes, come on, I said. Are you seriously not aware of how girls stare at you?

I wanted to tell him so. Find the right words, string them together in the ideal way, knowing that here they would have the best chance of sounding perfect.

But those words were only the middle of the story. There was a beginning here, too.

He's very nice. He's something I replied. She considered this zipping her purse shut. Then she said Well everyone is. Everyone is Something. For some reason that stuck with me simple and yet not every since she'd said it. It was like a puzzle as well two vague words with one clear one between them.