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quotes by topic Words

" Keep this in mind: it is our religion to praise life. The word "life‚Äù is the king of words. The king¬≠word surrounded by other grand words. The word "adventure‚Äù! The word "future‚Äù! And the word "hope‚Äù! By the way, do you know the code name for the atomic bomb they dropped on Hiroshima? "Little Boy‚Äù! That's a genius, the fellow who invented that code! They couldn't have dreamed up a better one. Little boy, kid, tyke, tot - there's no word that's more tender, more touching, more loaded with future. "

Words

" The‚Äúb‚Äù word and the ‚Äún‚Äù word are like poison, whether you take poison from a vial or pour it into Bavarian crystal, it is still poison. "

Poison , Words

" I learned to swallow words back, hold secrets on my tongue until they dissolved like soap bubbles. "

Secrets , Words

" I thought I would be understood without words. "

Vincent Van Gogh

Words

" PHOSPHORESCENCE. Now there's a word to lift your hat to... to find that phosphorescence, that light within, that's the genius behind poetry. "

Emily Dickinson

Poetry , Light , Words

" The two words expressed volumes. "

Agatha Christie

Words

" Speech is the deadliest of revealers.' - Hercule Poirot, Cards on the Table "

Agatha Christie

Words

" A word is used "correctly" when the average hearer will be affected by it in the way intended. This is a psychological, not a literary, definition of "correctness". The literary definition would substitute, for the average hearer, a person of high education living a long time ago; the purpose of this definition is to make it difficult to speak or write correctly. "

Bertrand Russell

Language , Words

" Women can always put things in fewest words. Except when it's blowing up "

Charles Dickens

Words

" [W]e talk about the tyranny of words, but we like to tyrannise over them too; we are fond of having a large superfluous establishment of words to wait upon us on great occasions; we think it looks important, and sounds well. As we are not particular about the meaning of our liveries on state occassions, if they be but fine and numerous enough, so, the meaning or necessity of our words is a secondary consideration, if there be but a great parade of them. And as individuals get into trouble by making too great a show of liveries, or as slaves when they are too numerous rise against their masters, so I think I could mention a nation that has got into many great difficulties, and will get into many greater, from maintaining too large a retinue of words. "

Charles Dickens

Words