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Words

Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

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The written word can be erased -- not so with the spoken word.

Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.

Haldane, John B. S.

The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

My general theory since 1971 has been that the word is literally a virus, and that it has not been recognized as such because it has achieved a state of relatively stable symbiosis with its human host; that is to say, the word virus (the Other Half) has established itself so firmly as an accepted part of the human organism that it can now sneer at gangster viruses like smallpox and turn them in to the Pasteur Institute.

Burroughs, William S.

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

Hemingway, Ernest

Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

Words represent your intellect. The sound, gesture and movement represent your feelings.

Fripp, Patricia

A single word often betrays a great design.

Racine, Jean

10.

An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and shaved it down till the average is three and a half... I never write metropolis for seven cents, because I can get the same money for city. I never write policeman, because I can get the same price for cop.... I never write valetudinarian at all, for not even hunger and wretchedness can humble me to the point where I will do a word like that for seven cents; I wouldn't do it for fifteen.

Twain, Mark

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The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.

Mohammed

12.

Words are the money of fools.

Hobbes, Thomas

13.

Like an arrow to its mark flies the word good man's word.

Platen

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Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why --but the editorialists forget it --terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking.

Berger, John

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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what we are given by the senses.

Arendt, Hannah

16.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

17.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

18.

Why do social workers use five-syllable words when dealing with juvenile delinquents?

19.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

20.

Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, we cannot evolve a tradition of what is real in the world.

Hubbard, Ruth

21.

We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.

Haldeman, Harold Robbins

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Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

Lowell, James Russell

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Each group of words is processed by the brain as a single thought. And because the words are viewed in context, you retain them more accurately than if you processed the words individually.

Saperstein, Rose

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A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

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I have never been hurt by what I have not said.

Coolidge, Calvin

26.

Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs.

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

27.

Keep your words sweet -- you may have to eat them. I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

Grellet, Stephan

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A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

Ibsen, Henrik

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All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest

30.

It is with a word as with an arrow -- once let it loose and it does not return.

31.

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

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If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.

Ellison, Ralph

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Words of love, are works of love.

Alger, William R.

34.

For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice.

Eliot, T. S.

35.

What do you call a boomerang that doesn't work? A stick!

Kirchenbaum

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The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts.

Parkhurst, Charles H.

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There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.

Reid, Thomas

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But words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew, upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.

Byron, Lord

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There's no sentence that's too short in the eyes of God.

Zinsser, William

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Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

Lao-Tzu

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Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.

Hemingway, Ernest

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Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing.

Gladden, W.

43.

I find it difficult to believe that words have no meaning in themselves, hard as I try. Habits of a lifetime are not lightly thrown aside.

Chase, Stuart

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To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Santayana, George

45.

Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.

Stalin, Joseph

46.

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

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A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words... the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

Twain, Mark

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The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.

Woolf, Virginia

49.

If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?

Wright, Steven

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Bu is a word that cools many a warm impulse, stifles many a kindly thought, puts a dead stop to many a brotherly deed. No one would ever love his neighbor as himself if he listened to all the Buts that could be said.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.