The Words Quotes

"Plain English" - everybody loves it demands it - from the other fellow.

Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain.

Language is the armoury of the human mind and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

Everyone hears only what he understands.

When I feel inclined to read poetry I take down my dictionary. The poetry of words is quite as beautiful as the poetry of sentences.

Language most shows a man speak that I may see thee.

True eloquence consists of saying all that should be not all that could be said.

Even if language is a living evolving organism we don't have to embrace all the changes that occur during our lifetimes. If language is so alive it can get sick.

His words were softer than oil yet they were drawn swords.

Language is an inventory of human experience.

Change is legitimate and inevitable for our language is a mighty river picking up silt and flotsam here and discarding it there but growing ever wider and richer.

The grossest thing in our gross national product today is our language. It is suffering from inflation.

A word has its use Or like a man it will soon have a grave.

Every utterance is an event and no two events are precisely alike. The extreme view therefore is that no word ever means the same thing twice.

It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed the deeper they burn.

If you can teach me a new word I'll walk all the way to China to get it.

I have always suspected that correctness is the last refuge of those who have nothing to say.

Sometimes, situation may be uncomfortable but must endure.

One of my roommates, Rafael, he's an expert on monsters. Not that he talks about them. I can just tell. People who have monsters recognize each other. They know each other without even saying a word.

Keep the enthusiasm of your youth and treasure the wisdom of old age.

It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.

Being Irish, I always had this love of words.

Words are the money of fools.

We can never intimidate and discourage the people who voice their words with courage. The essence of freedom rests precisely here - in the freedom of expression of the people. And we must protect it.

Language, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words, which are manipulated to create surprising illusions.

When writing for the page, the focus is on the design - how the words appear on the page. I try to make it as direct and simple as possible.

We struggle with the right words to describe the design process at Apple. But it is very much about designing and prototyping and making.

Twitter is the marriage of full-tilt narcissism and full-tilt voyeurism that has finally collided in 140 words.

When you use words loosely, without care and consideration, you erode trust in yourself and in what you're saying. When you squander words, you diminish your power.

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

The whole beauty of music is that it goes where your words won't let you.

Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.

In politics, a picture is worth a thousand words.

Friendship and sentiment and the giving of one's words are very important.

But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import.

I think 'Actions speak louder than words' is one thing, I think, I always took from my mom. And to this day, I think about that in everything I do.

My mom named me Pom because she said it sounded like a combination of Korean words that mean 'spring' and 'tiger.' So, it's very unique!

In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

Back when I was dating, the dreaded C word was Commitment. As soon as most men found out I had a child, they ran. If I ever got close enough to say the words, 'I love you, ' they ran faster.

When poetry is on the money, 12 words can slay you. I admire that greatly.

At my house, it's an, 'If dad says it, you can say it' kind of deal, so a lot of my slang words come off very childish at this point in my career.

There was a thing on Facebook that said, 'Describe George Clooney's wedding in three words, ' and my answer was, 'Not invited again.'

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.

The first poems I knew were nursery rhymes, and before I could read them for myself, I had come to love just the words of them, the words alone.

Whenever ideas fail, men invent words.

We all write poems it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.

I love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time of the subject. By a very careful choice of words you can evoke an era, completely throw the poem into a different time scale.

I find that with some girls, the words 'work' and 'education' have gotten a bad rap.

Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists.

Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.