Quotes About Words

Don't you wish you had a job like mine? All you have to do is think up a certain number of words! Plus, you can repeat words! And they don't even have to be true!

Words that add no new information or aren't repeated for emphasis are just padding. A sentence may carry three or five or eight of them, each one as unnoticeable as an extra two ounces on your hips but collectively adding up to a large burden of fat.

Members will hear me say repeatedly words are important; deeds are a reality.

Rapping can be repetition sometimes. Sometimes you gotta highlight your words in a certain kind of way. So I always was a fan of sing-rapping. It was always funny to me a little bit, and I think that being funny and being able to laugh, even at yourself, is a form of flattery.

Lexicographers are language reporters.

Initial reports are encouraging. In the end of the day, it's going to be deeds, not words, that matter.

Racism itself is difficult to measure. We can measure hate crimes - which are absolutely an indicator. We can measure reports of discrimination. We can measure the number of times hateful words are being used across the Internet. Those things all help us measure racism, but it can sometimes be nebulous.

Words are mere shadows cast by ideas. But the ideas they represent are real.

Republicans many times can't get the words 'equality of opportunity' out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way.

I'm a teacher and a writer; my life is words. When I see the denigration of language, it hurts me, and it's easy to denigrate a word by trivializing it.

There's always going to be something said that hurts you.

Censorship of ideas or images or words is wrong.

I was a book lover from the beginning. I loved, love, words and images and ideas, the ways a book can make you feel things deeply or help you understand something you never even knew there were words for.

I have always been immersed in a world filled with words, earlier as a reader and now, finally, as both a reader and a writer.

Of course language manifests a belief only if we use its words with the implied acceptance of their appositeness.

I grew up in a house where language was appreciated and cared about. I'm sure that, although I wasn't aware of it at the time, it must have made an impression on me.

In Chinese, there are an impressive number of ways to describe saying nothing at all.

Regrettably, the media are seemingly incapable of mentioning the words 'compassion' and 'Trump' in the same sentence.

'Ouch' is not independent of social training. One has only to prick a foreigner to appreciate that it is an English word.

Il existe onze mots en gaélique pour définir les différentes sortes de pluie, comme il y en a quatorze au Québec pour décrire la neige dans tous ses états.

So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.

Words are like breath," she said, "you say them and they're gone. But writing traps them.

Slander is a vice that strikes a double blow; wounding both him that commits, and him against whom it is committed.

Hazel said novels was better value than poetry books because they had more words in them, poetry books was a rip-off (Winsome doesn't think Hazel should be in their reading group)