Quotes About Words

Clinton's version went on for eight pages in his tidy, nearly indecipherable hand, the runic words canting to the right as if into a headwind.

Backtracking is particularly important when dealing with problem people over the phone because the only visual information they have about you is what they extrapolate from the sound of your voice and the words that you use.

Once the others were below, Hazel and Leo faced each other awkwardly. They were alone except for Coach Hedge, who was back on the quarterdeck singing the Pokémon theme song. The coach had changed the words to: Gotta Kill 'Em All, and Leo really didn't want to know why.

Shut up,' he explained.

Language exerts hidden power, like the moon on the tides.

No one lives out the words they preach or the advice they offer. This does not mean they don't believe in the words they've written or spoken but instead are subject to life's necessary standard deviations.

Silence is often the ultimate and most evident lie.

There are seven things you can never get back. 1. Words after they have been spoken. 2. A stone after it has been thrown. 3. A moment or occasion after it has passed. 4. A person after they have passed. 5. Time once it has passed. 6. Betrayal after it has transpired. 7. A lie after it has been spoken.

Meaningful words are called kalma. A group of meaningful words that makes a complete sense is called kalam. A collection (majmua) of ghazals by a particular poet is called a diwan.

Don't gobblefunk around with words.

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C.S. Lewis admitted, when he was asked to set forth his beliefs, that he never felt less sure of them than when he tried to speak of them. Photographers know this frailty. To them words are a pallid, diffuse way of describing and celebrating what matters. Their gift is to see what will be affecting as a print. Mute.

He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. —

So much of what folks want in the world turns out to be just a thing they say. Words change the way you feel for a small time and that just about goes as far as it can go toward being a true thing.

The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.

Whoever dreamed up Scrabble had an exaggerated idea of how many seven-letter words have five i's.

If you can't explain something in a few words, try fewer.

Should the poor be flattered?—Shakespeare.

Hinc quam sic calamus saevior ense, patet. The pen worse than the sword.

Hence it is clear how much more cruel the pen is than the sword.

Hence it is clear how much more cruel the pen is than the sword. (Hinc Gham Sit Calmus Saevior Ense Patet)

It is an old saying, "A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword"; and many men are as much galled with a calumny, a scurrile and bitter jest, a libel, a pasquil, satire, apologue, epigram, stage-plays, or the like, as with any misfortune whatsoever.

The English language may hold a more disagreeable combination of words than "The doctor will see you now." I am willing to concede something to the phrase "Have you anything to say before the current is turned on?" That may be worse for the moment, but it doesn't last so long. For continued, unmitigating depression, I know nothing to equal "The doctor will see you now." But I'm not narrow-minded about it. I'm willing to consider other possibilities.

Words like anchors, tethering boats of memory that would otherwise be scuttled by the storm.