Quotes About Words

Like other self-educated men, he was vain of his vocabulary.

Love is a funny thing," he says, breaking the silence. "Sometimes, I'd like to be better with words, so that I could talk about it more. It seems so wrong to me that there is this condition that affects all of us, more than anything else in our lives ever will, and only the poets and song writers get to talk about it with any sort of authority.

Nwt. Her name is the basis of English words such as nocturnal, night and equinox.

Roy Peter Clark

A Writer's Reference

A teacher of mine once said there are no true synonyms.

Punctuation comes from the Latin root punctus, or "point." Those funny dots, lines, and squiggles help writers point the way. To help readers, we punctuate for two reasons: 1. To set the pace of reading. 2. To divide words, phrases, and ideas into convenient groupings.

All of us possess a reading vocabulary as big as a lake but draw from a writing vocabulary as small as a pond.

Porque siento que allá arriba, en el cielo, los ángeles que se hablan dulcemente al oído, no pueden encontrar entre sus radiantes palabras de amor una expresión más ferviente que la de «madre»

A morte exige brevidade de palavras, porque o tempo é curto. E, sendo curto o tempo, as palavras devem dizer o essencial.

Little is accomplished if one tries to understand these words theoretically. Much more can be gained when one creates sacred moments in life when one is willing to energetically fill one's soul with the living content of such words.

A book is the only immortality.

The book is the only immortality.

Extended minds are implicit in our language. The words "attention" and "intention" come from the Latin root tendere, to stretch, as in "tense" and "tension." "Attention" is ad + tendere, "to stretch toward"; "intention," in + tendere, "to stretch into.

She searched her mind. Are there special words to send your son into battle?

For the time being Words scatter Are they fallen leaves?

The single most important factor for cultivating your relationship with deities is to simply give energy in the form of offerings and prayers (words spoken during offerings; not religious). It is about consistency. The more you put in, the more you will get out of the relationship.

Definitions, contrary to popular opinion, tell us nothing about things. They only describe people's linguistic habits; that is, they tell us what noises people make under what conditions.

He slipped into the hall, then nearly tripped over a man sitting in the middle. It was his friend Dr. Roget, whose project of grouping words by their types absorbed his every hour these days. Anthony tried to sneak past, but no such luck.

If you have no tantra in you, you have no technology to transform people; all you have are words. Words can be inspirational and directional, but not transformative.

Tú eres de los que se tiran al vacío y está lleno. Me interesó esa imagen. El vacío lleno y el lleno vacío. Tenía una voz dura, algo ronca, pero no desagradable. Sentí el latigazo de la culpa en la pierna y apreté las muletas. Cómo duelen las palabras.

Jangan pernah menyakiti orang lain dengan perbuatan mau pun kata-kata.

to conclude the matter, what is even an eternal remembrance? A mere nothing. What then is that about which we ought to employ our serious pains? This one thing, thoughts just, and acts social, and words which never lie, and a disposition which gladly accepts all that happens, as necessary, as usual, as flowing from a principle and source of the same kind.

This book might also be seen as "a Christian primer." A primer teaches us how to read. Reading is not just about learning to recognize and pronounce words, but also about how to hear and understand them. This book's purpose is to help us to read, hear, and inwardly digest Christian language without preconceived understandings getting in the way.