Quotes About Using Words

#1. A way of using words to say things which could not possibly be said in any other way, things which in a sense do not exist till they are born ... in poetry.

Cecil Day-Lewis

#2. Like psychoanalysis, constitutional jurisprudence has become a game without rules. By defying the plain meaning of words, ignoring context and history, and using a little ingenuity, you can make the Constitution mean anything you like.

Joseph Sobran

#3. Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating ... but there are other ways to understanding.

Patrick Rothfuss

#4. Sometimes when I'm writing, I wonder if the words have a mind of their own, and if they're really just using me as a puppet to manifest themselves.

Travis J. Dahnke

#5. Most of us live in a Jackal world where we take turns using the other person as a waste basket for our words.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

#6. People use you and what do you do? You use them too.. We all are mean!

Honeya

#7. You don't move just because you want to go from this point to that point - the body has to be using the words as well as you vocally use the words.

Eartha Kitt

#8. I could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist's trade.Once you had started using words like flavicomous or acroamatic, because you liked the sound of them, you were lost.

Woodrow Wilson

#9. So our task as stewards of the word begins and ends in love. Loving language means cherishing it for its beauty, precision, power to enhance understanding, power to name, power to heal. And it means using words as instruments of love.

Marilyn Chandler McEntyre

#10. I realized, in removing or rewriting these jokes, that often the jokes weren't done or that I was using, for me, the curse words as kind of a crutch. So then I just started writing.

Jim Gaffigan

#11. 127. Craft a poem about sadness and darkness but using only positive words.

Ryan Andrew Kinder

#12. In writing, I want to be remembered for telling good stories in beautiful and powerful language, using the poetry of words to reflect the thematic concerns of compelling stories.

Kim Edwards

#13. We cannot be too careful about the words we use; we start out using them and they end up using us.

Eugene H. Peterson

#14. I practice using my voice, shaping my lips around the familiar words unfamiliar to my mouth.

Tahereh Mafi

#15. The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

Thomas Jefferson

#16. You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're using different words.

S.I. Hayakawa

#17. The manuscript is not the story." It took me a minute to get that the first time I heard it, so I'll say it again: The manuscript is not the story. The manuscript is where we put down the words we're using to tell the story; it is not the story itself.

Bridget McKenna

#18. You want a hero in the music world? James Brown. He brought a feeling to music without really using words. He's just famous for his sound.

David Lee Roth

#19. The wound made by hurting with fire will heal but the wound created by harsh words uttered using out tongue leaves an indelible scar.

Thiruvalluvar

#20. He doesn't know if the words they are using actually mean the things they purport to mean or whether the words have taken on a new significance. They are talking about nothing, after all. And yet these words, these nothings, are all they have, and he wishes there were whole dictionaries of them.

Rachel Joyce

#21. Thus he always wrote using a pencil with a long, sharp but soft lead, so he couldn't here his words as they formed on the page.

Jacqueline Winspear

#22. I feel like I can communicate much better using images than words.

Gia Coppola

#23. This place is very bushy," I said, using words to describe things.

Jenny Lawson

#24. I consider whoever my words land on to be my target, that's why I like flash fiction, it's a lot like using a shotgun.

Neil Leckman

#25. In those days he really didn't know what he was talking about; that is to say, he was a young jailkid all hung-up on the wonderful possibilities of becoming a real intellectual, and he liked to talk in the tone and using the words, but in a jumbled way, that he had heard from 'real intellectuals.

Jack Kerouac

#26. I'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.

Wislawa Szymborska

#27. Words and prayers are powerful agreements, and you need to see what kind you are using every day.

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#28. Anger is preverbal, so, by the time you're using words to express an angry feeling, you're already imposing loads of structure on that primal experience.

John Darnielle

#29. Aviation is poetry ... It's the finest kind of moving around, you know, just as poetry is the finest way of using words.

Jessie Redmon Fauset

#30. White House is ranting up its rhetoric for Republicans, using wild words to attack them over the budget standoff.

Andrea Tantaros

#31. Yes and, you know, I can't use the nice words anymore because I used to chicken out by using them. I used to call myself plus size, used to call myself chubby. I used to call myself overweight.

Star Jones

#32. But the more I think about it, the more I think PC words are a crock of shit. If I want to describe something using a stupid word, I should.

Mark A. Rayner

#33. Tycoon had a peddler's talent for using words to redefine reality.

Vernor Vinge

#34. If I'm a bank, and I'm making risky loans, I have an incentive, if I can, to make those loans using other people's money: in other words, to make highly leveraged loans.

Eric Maskin

#35. When I need to be precise about a plant, I use its Latin name, even if my nongardening friends sometimes look at me a little funny for using big words in a dead language - or in the kind of horticultural Esperanto that botanical names make up.

Allen Lacy

#36. There's a great adage that says we sing because what we have to express can't be spoken, just using words.

Jeremy Jordan

#37. I find myself using Spanish words much more now that I'm older, and I guess I have the authority to do it in public spaces in ways that I felt I couldn't when I was teaching here fifteen years ago.

Sandra Cisneros

#38. I write exclusively using computers. Pens and typewriters can fsck right off - I wrote my first half million words in my teens on a manual typewriter (had to trade it for a new one due to keys snapping from metal fatigue) so I am not a pen or typewriter fetishist.

Charles Stross

#39. And that format was - we'd been using that format, I guess, since the late '70s, and it was starting to get very predictable. In other words, certain songs would surface in the same points in the set every so often; it was like rotation.

Phil Lesh

#40. Academic writers are bad writers for three reasons. First, they want to sound smart. "If the water is dark," goes a German aphorism, "the lake must be deep." Instead of using good words like smart, they choose sophisticated or erudite.

Paul J. Silvia

#41. This little book aims to introduce the Thai language. It is intended for those who know nothing about it, but are keen to learn. We use the method of selecting 100 key words, and using these to make up sentences and present a range of expressions, so that you can "say 1000 things.

Stuart O. Robson

#42. You are what it takes and matter the most when you decide to accomplish using your true potential.

Steven Cuoco

#43. Instead of using forceful words like spend, sell, and make money, I've switched to more flowing words like invest, offer, and attract. The energy of these words makes me feel like I'm inviting money and success into my life instead of chasing after it.

Amanda H. Young

#44. When it comes to words, rather than using our own voice, authentic and unpracticed, we steal someone else's to shield our fear.

Terry Tempest Williams

#45. Programme names have been changed, and we have Andrew Neil saying he won't be using long words.

Jonathan Dimbleby

#46. I believe it is important to preserve dialects as well as the regional accents of an area. Oral tradition is still necessary and by using dialectal WORDS as the mortar, we can connect future generations with their heritage.

Patricia H. Graham

#47. To engender empathy and create a world using only words is the closest thing we have to magic.

Lin-Manuel Miranda

#48. In a way fighting was just like using magic. You said the words, and they altered the universe. By merely speaking you could create damage and pain, cause tears to fall, drive people away, make yourself feel better, make your life worse.

Lev Grossman

#49. Unhealthy love is based on two people trying to escape their problems through their emotions for each other - in other words, they're using each other as an escape. Healthy love is based on two people acknowledging and addressing their own problems with each other's support.

Mark Manson

#50. Make sure you take lots of pictures, and if you come back using words like 'queue' or 'lorry', I'll be very upset.

Rachel Hawkins

#51. The thoughtless habit of using the words "existence" and "exist" as designations for being is one more indication of our estrangement both from being and from a radical, forceful, and definite exegesis of being.

Martin Heidegger

#52. I burned out my drawing hand by using it too much. The common word for it is writer's cramp. The fancy words for it are focal dystonia. The symptom in my case was a pinky finger that went spastic when I tried to draw.

Scott Adams

#53. I think we all have the power to name ourselves. I try to call people what it is they wish to be called. But we can take the sting out of epithets and bad words by using them.

Gloria Steinem

#54. Lust is different from desire. There are women who will gladly assuage your lust. I will not.
"You want me. I heard it. I feel it."
It matters little what we want, I shot back, using his words against him. I may be your weapon. But I am not your queen.

Amy Harmon

#55. How friendly are your companies' first words? Just try this ... start all conversations with customers using one of the following words or phrases: 'great!' 'no problem', 'you're in luck', 'that's my favorite problem'.

Jeffrey Gitomer

#56. Not everyone can understand your language like using "BTW", "BRB", "SAA" and many other such type of short words.

Deyth Banger

#57. Verbal jujitsu is the intentional use of language to yield in a verbal confrontation with a potential attacker, while using the language of the opponent to blend with the opponent, thereby neutralizing their words, and causing them to yield or share your thoughts/ideas.

Kambiz Mostofizadeh

#58. I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words.

Georges Simenon

#59. Tell the readers a story! Because without a story, you are merely using words to prove you can string them together in logical sentences.

Anne McCaffrey

#60. Not all writers want to be profound (though an awful lot of them do); some want to entertain, some want to inform; some are trying to provoke the most basic, universal feeling using a minimum of words-I think of Emily Dickinson -to demonstrate how it is to be human in our crazy world today.

Therese Anne Fowler

#61. This book was written using 100% recycled words.

Terry Pratchett

#62. When it comes to government policy, can we please stop using words like "architect"? Telling people what to do is not a skilled profession.

David Burge

#63. Nothing is more human than substituting the quantity of words and actions for their character. But using imprecise words is very similar to using lots of words, for the more imprecise a word is, the greater the area it covers.

Robert Musil

#64. He that uses many words for explaining any subject, doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink.

John Ray

#65. Knowing some Greek helped defuse forbidding words - not that I counted much on using them. You'll find only trace elements of this language in the poem.

James Merrill

#66. Siobhan said that when you are writing a book you have to include some descriptions of things. I said that I could take photographs and put them in the book. But she said the idea of a book was to describe things using words so that people could read them and make a picture in their own head.

Mark Haddon

#67. Find the god in your own heart and you will understand by direct intuition what all the great teachers, real mystics, true philosophers and inspired people have been trying to tell you by the tortuous method of using words.

Paul Brunton

#68. I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.

Bertrand Russell

#69. Minus the adverts of TV, the special effects of movies, and the trash of the Internet, live theatre is a personal means to connect with viewers. Lining up eye candy, using graphic words, and teasing or enacting bedroom antics is a lowbrow way to go about it.

Tom Jalio

#70. A terrific exercise is to take a paragraph of someone's writing who has a really strong style, and using their structure, substitute your own words for theirs, and see how they achieved their effects.

Janet Fitch

#71. You should try to avoid using the words "should" and "try".

Swami Pranayomama

#72. Genius seems to consist merely in trueness of sight, in using such words as show that the man was an eye-witness, and not a repeater of what was told.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#73. My problem as a writer, using words, is to dispel the illusions of language while employing one of the languages that generates them. I can succeed only on the principle of a hair of the dog that bit you.

Alan W. Watts

#74. As writers, we do our best to conjure a world so vivid that the reader can practically walk through it - but we're still only using words and relying on readers to do a lot of work of imagining. Providing pictures as well as words offers a whole new dimension to the experience of consuming a story.

Sharon Shinn

#75. Sometimes a memory is a thing that can't be explained using words.

Cath Crowley

#76. When I write, I do not like using ten dollar words. I like the fifty-centers. Everybody has fifty-cents, even those that are too proud to admit it.

T.A. Cline

#77. It's so easy to use tired, shopworn figures of speech. I love using long, fancy words but have learned - mostly from writing my biography of Winston Churchill - that short, strong words work better. I am ever-vigilant against the passive and against jargon, both of which are so insidious.

Gretchen Rubin

#78. ..people who stutter may be of above intellect but have trouble putting the many ideas they have into words in an easily understood order without stuttering on using some other form of place-holding mechanism.

Bill Allin

#79. She (Kamila Sidiqi) believes strongly that Afghans can shape their own future using business to create a healthy economy that offers opportunity and a chance at a better and more peaceful tomorrow."
~in other words capitalism!(my words)

Gayle Tzemach Lemmon

#80. When you don't cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life that was lost a long time ago when humanity, instead of using thought, became possessed by thought.

Eckhart Tolle

#81. Help yourself warm up and prepare mentally by repeating, "I feel happy! I feel healthy! I feel terrific!" It is not possible for you to talk positively to yourself, using words like this, without immediately feeling happier and more confident.

Brian Tracy

#82. I ceased using words like optimism and pessimism a long time ago.

Wole Soyinka

#83. While you're telling yourself you'll 'do it tomorrow', I'm doing it today. And while I'm living my success, you'll be using words like 'lucky' to mask your jealousy and regret.

Steve Maraboli

#84. we only shout when we neglect what silence can do

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#85. It is really hard to completely re-learn how to express yourself without using words. When you take away speech, you have to re-invent the way you express yourself. You have to exaggerate your body language and your facial expressions.

Jodelle Ferland

#86. Being deeply learned and skilled, being well trained and using well spoken words; This is good luck.

Gautama Buddha

#87. He wished the man would honor the true meaning of words, instead of using them as ammunition.

Rachel Joyce

#88. In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along, step by step, using every time an old boulder, yet never setting his foot on an old place.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#89. Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and nonverbal expression.

Rowan Atkinson

#90. I think it's a little simplistic to explain a work through the psychology of its author. In other words, that Haneke has emotional problems, so I don't have to take his films seriously. By using this argument, the viewer retreats from the challenges of the film.

Michael Haneke

#91. I'm definitely using different parts of myself, but I think when it comes down to words and melodies, I can't really force anything too much.

Lia Ices

#92. Love shouldn't hurt. Love is to help the other grow with the right words instead of using derogatory remarks. Everyone has their good points

Yoshiko Sakurai

#93. Good communication using WORDS

Eric Sutherland

#94. I've always said that lovingkindness and compassion are inevitably woven throughout meditation practice even if the words are never used or implied, no matter what technique or method we are using.

Sharon Salzberg

#95. I sometimes get hassled for using the term "fat" but I also use the term "crazy" to describe myself and I'm fine with that because I'm taking those words back. I'm also taking "sexy" back because, frankly, Justin Timberlake has had it too long and he doesn't even need it.

Jenny Lawson

#96. Try and write straight English; never using slang except in dialogue and then only when unavoidable. Because all slang goes sour in a short time. I only use swear words, for example, that have lasted at least a thousand years for fear of getting stuff that will be simply timely and then go sour.

Ernest Hemingway,

#97. I'm definitely a fan of juxtaposition. Using the most beautiful line to say the most horrific thing - I think one of the main things in songwriting is definitely friction between the words and the melody.

Rufus Wainwright

#98. I had no words for these feelings. And then people started using the word Ms. Suddenly, there was this handle with which I could identify myself and understand why I felt so out of whack with the culture around me.

Betty Buckley

#99. Some people are just weak and vulnerable but not dangerous. By using our heart we can more easily choose the right words when communicating with them.

Robin Sacredfire

#100. You cannot till this year's land using last year's sun.

Matshona Dhliwayo