Quotes About Words

As Mark Twain once put it, "The difference between the right word and the almost-right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.

Why stroke the hypersensitive ears of our modern weaklings? Why yield even a single step … to the Tartuffery of words? For us psychologists that would involve a Tartuffery of action … For a psychologist today shows his good taste (others may say his integrity) in this, if in anything, that he resists the shamefully moralized manner of speaking which makes all modern judgments about men and things slimy. We

Mark Twain once put it, "The difference between the right word and the almost-right word is the difference

Then Martin says, as if he is writing a commentary on Matthew 6:19–24: "The acid test is not what we say, but what we do; not what we promise in words, but what we actually give in money.

Calvin saw in the words "Do not judge" a tendency to become overly curious about the sins of others (including those closest to us) that needed to be checked and handed over to God—who alone is the Judge.

Ashes keep drifting onto my paper, charcoal snowflakes on a minefield of blanks, words bouncing around off each other uttering impotent images of sight sound terror life crying for recognition, narcissistic eunuchs reflecting my face, ruining the snowfield.

a beautiful girl spoke to me today thru little honey'd whispers dreaming icicles streams of words mouth moving saying much in little tones traveling passionately into distant lands far off hopes stranger's arms a hoped-for death told her secret.

i drive 160 on the freeway in the hopes of a fiery escape my major x-mas wish and like everyone else i get shit life on a razor's edge words that kill and guns that don't

Magic isn't the empty parroting of words and actions; it is an involved, emotionally charged experience in which the words and actions are used as focal points or keys to unlock the power that we all possess.

I thought it was just a picture of madness. But that wasn't. It was a message, it has to be, those words are too specific.

What an interesting choice of words. "Not real, and never were." Could there be any more appropriate literature for men of our profession? Why are you always so averse to fiction, when we've made it our meal-ticket?' 'I

The word "BAE" which is popular in North American society is actually the Danish word for poop.

Just as pictures and the intervals between them create the illusion of time through closure, words introduce time by representing that which can only exist in time--sound.

Q: What's the difference between ignorance and apathy? A: Don't know, don't care.

The dead don't care what you say, but maybe the words you speak at a graveside aren't for the dead at all. Maybe those words are for the living.

He was not above calling a book unreadable. But their literary merit wasn't important at this moment. They were words strung together to represent the firing of neurons and the transferring of information through synapses. They were human minds set into paper, and Sebastian loved every single one of them, even the ones he found disposable.

The words of the reckless pierce like swords, but the tongue of the wise brings healing. (Prov. 12:18 NIV)

It seems like we live and die by the names we are given, and we harm or heal by the names we give.

My prayer is simple yet necessary: grant me greater stewardship of my words, Jesus. As you speak to me, please speak through me.

If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.

We were small and thought we knew nothing Worth knowing. We thought words travelled the wires In the shiny pouches of raindrops, Each one seeded full with the light Of the sky, the gleam of the lines, and ourselves So infinitesimally scaled We could stream through the eye of a needle.

If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.

Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done.

Ah, words are poor receipts for what time hath stole away.