Browsing Quotes With Tag: words (21)
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Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule
Speaker: Stephen KingPosted: 23 Mar 2010 at 5:22 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
All words are pegs to hang ideas on.
Speaker: Henry Ward BeecherPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 1:19 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Do you think words have answers?” I asked.
“It depends on your questions,” said Byrd. “But”- she turned her head to look at me over Sophie- “you should know that there are some things for which there are no answers, no matter how beautiful the words may be.”
I stared at her.
“Sometimes poetry – words – give us a small, lovely look at ourselves,” said Byrd. “And sometimes that is enough.”
There was silence.
“Sometimes,” Byrd added in a soft voice.Speaker: Patricia MacLachlanSource: BabyPosted: 29 Aug 2008 at 8:09 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The formula for a good speech: Have a good beginning, a great ending, and keep the two as close together as possible.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 2:54 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Words mean things.
Speaker: Rush LimbaughPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 1:37 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Some people operate in a spirit of contention – clever with words from much practice, but not focused on correcting their own imperfections. They focus on the imperfections of others. The Spirit of the Lord withdraws from them with their fault-finding and contentions. Unless they change, they rarely endure to the end but fall away in time.
Speaker: Robert D. HalesPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 9:25 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Each person sees the world not as it is but as he or she is. When he opens his mouth to describe what he sees, he in effect describes himself, that is, his perception.
That does not mean that there are no facts… But each person’s interpretation of these facts represents his prior experiences, and the facts have no meaning whatsoever apart from his interpretation.Speaker: Stephen CoveySource: Divine Center, thePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:30 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A problem well-stated is a problem half-solved.
Speaker: Charles KetteringPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 8:03 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Use what language you will, you can never say anything but what you are.
Speaker: Ralph Waldo EmersonPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:36 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A good window does not call attention to itself. It merely lets in the light. A good speaker is like that. He is so disarmingly natural that his hearers never notice his manner of speaking: they are conscious only of his material.
Speaker: Dale CarnegiePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:21 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Get a student to say ‘no’ at the beginning, or a customer, child, husband, or wife, and it takes the wisdom and patience of angels to transform that bristling negative into an affirmative.
Speaker: Harry OverstreetPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:14 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Think as wise men do but speak as the common people do.
Speaker: AristotlePosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:12 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said, can be said clearly.
Speaker: Ludwig WittgensteinPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:12 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
As one enlarges his ability to get others to understand him, he opens up to that extent his opportunity for usefulness. Certainly in our society, where it is necessary for many for them even in the simplest matters to co-operate with each other, it is necessary first of all to understand each other. Language is the principal conveyor of understanding, and so we must learn to use it, not crudely but discriminatingly.
Speaker: Owen D. YoungPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 7:12 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
How do people, like, not curse? How is it possible? There are all these gaps in speech where you just have to put a “fuck.” I’ll tell you who the most admirable people in the world are: newscasters. If that was me, I’d be like, “And the motherfuckers flew the fucking plane right into the Twin Towers.” How could you not, if you’re a human being? Maybe they’re not so admirable. Maybe they’re robot zombies.
Speaker: Nick HornbyPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 8:54 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Once they knew that some changes were for the better, and others for the worse, and others again indifferent. We have largely removed this knowledge. For the descriptive adjective ‘unchanged’ we have substituted the emotional adjective ‘stagnant.’ We have trained them to think of the future as a promised land which favored heroes attain – not as something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
Speaker: C.S. LewisPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 8:41 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
In civilized life domestic hatred usually expresses itself by saying things which would appear quite harmless on paper (the words are not offensive) but in such a voice, or at such a moment, that they are not far short of a blow in the face.
...Your patient must demand that all his own utterances are to be taken at their face value and judged simply on the actual words, while at the same time judging all his mother’s utterances with the fullest and most oversensitive interpretation of the tone and the context and the suspected intention… once this habit is well-established you have the delightful situation of a human saying things with the express purpose of offending and yet having a grievance when offense is taken.Speaker: C.S. LewisPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 8:26 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“It is always a fool’s mistake,” Didier once said to me, “to be alone with someone you shouldn’t have loved.”
Speaker: Gregory David RobertsPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 7:39 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Kavita stood to give me a hug. It was the tender, close hug that a woman gives a man when she knows she can trust him, or when she’s sure his heart belongs to someone else. It was a rare enough embrace between foreigners. Coming from an Indian woman, it was uniquely intimate in my experience. And it was important. I’d been in the city for years; I could make myself understood in Marathi, Hindi, and Urdu; I could sit with gangsters, slum-dwellers, or Bollywood actors, claiming their goodwill and sometimes their respect; but few things made me feel as accepted, in all the Indian worlds of Bombay, as Kavita Singh’s fond embrace.
I never told her that – what her affectionate and unconditional acceptance meant to me. So much, too much, of the good that I felt in those years of exile was locked in the prison cell of my heart: those tall walls of fear; that small, barred window of hope; that hard bed of shame. I do speak out now. I know now that when the loving, honest moment comes it should be seized, and spoken, because it may never come again. And unvoiced, unmoving, unlived in the things we declare from heart to heart, those true and real feelings wither and crumble in the remembering hand that tries too late to reach for them.Speaker: Gregory David RobertsPosted: 20 Aug 2008 at 7:37 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
One of the reasons I remember those early Bombay months so well is that, whenever I was alone, I wrote about those new friends and the conversations we shared. And writing was one of the things that saved me: the discipline and abstraction of putting my life into words, every day, helped me to cope with shame and its first cousin, despair.
Speaker: Gregory David RobertsPosted: 19 Aug 2008 at 8:48 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!