Top 100 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. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. This place is very bushy," I said, using words to describe things.
Jenny Lawson
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. Tycoon had a peddler's talent for using words to redefine reality.
Vernor Vinge
#10. There's a great adage that says we sing because what we have to express can't be spoken, just using words.
Jeremy Jordan
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. Sometimes a memory is a thing that can't be explained using words.
Cath Crowley
#20. 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
#21. I ceased using words like optimism and pessimism a long time ago.
Wole Soyinka
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. 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
#26. I object to you using words like squander and pork. What is pork in one part of the country is an essential project in another part.
John Breaux
#27. I have packed myself into silence so deeply and for so long that I can never unpack myself using words. When I speak, I only pack myself a little differently.
Herta Muller
#28. So what's the point of using words nobody else knows or can say comfortably? I just don't understand that.
Stephen Chbosky
#29. What's the point of using words nobody knows or can say comfortably?
Stephen Chbosky
#30. Morality in government begins with officials using words as honestly as possible to describe the truth.
David Gergen
#31. For me personally, I don't pray using words - it is just with my intent. Why do I need to pray with "words," to something external, when I know what I want?
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#32. I've always liked texts that you immediately understand. I suppose the playwrights who really speak to me are Edward Bond, Joe Orton and Harold Pinter. I've been in six different Pinter productions - I love the clarity of his language. He has this way of using words - there's a thrill to them.
Kenneth Cranham
#34. I know exactly what he means. I had overheard Poirot talking to my parents. He was using words like "psychosis" and "schizophrenic". Words that people feel they have to whisper, or not repeat at all. The Mental-Illness-That-Must-Not-Be-Named.
Neal Shusterman
#35. Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef.
Tom Robbins
#36. You're the heir apparent to the head of the Council,ergo-"
"Dad,it is way to early to be using words like 'ergo.
Rachel Hawkins
#37. The mind lies using words. The heart has no words with which to lie. It conveys only truth.
Jeanne Watatsuki Houston
#38. Like most people, I've always felt using words like 'best' when applied to art is a fun way for critics to stay busy at the end of the year, and I guess a good way to help get ratings for awards shows, which is fine.
Steven Van Zandt
#39. The political writer, then, is the ultimate optimist, believing people are capable of change and using words as one way to try and penetrate the privatism of our lives.
Cherrie Moraga
#40. There's no point sitting here, using words that mean nothing. Go and experiment. It's time you got out of here. Go and re-conquer your kingdom, which has grown corrupted by routine. Stop repeating the same lesson, because you won't learn anything new that way.
Paulo Coelho
#41. When you're just using words, you're limiting yourself to everyday casual speak. As soon as you start to sing, you can unlock the stuff that's underneath.
Jeremy Jordan
#42. I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply.
Theodore Sturgeon
#43. Grammar, which is the art of using words properly, comprises four parts: Orthography, Etymology, Syntax, and Prosody.
Samuel Johnson
#44. Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to poetry. It's about using words in very precise ways and using gesture.
Rita Dove
#45. If you commit yourself to the art of poetry, you commit yourself to the task of learning how to see, using words as elements of sight and their sounds as prisms. And to see means to see something worth all the agony of learning how to see.
Archibald MacLeish
#46. Knowing how to use your voice so it makes sense to your dog, using words in a way your dog can understand, correcting him without creating fear, praising him properly, and doing it all at the proper time are critical skills to develop if your dog is to learn from you.
Brian Kilcommons
#47. Sometimes I use words to throw you from once scene to the other, and sometimes I use words to pull you from one scene to the other. You might not be aware of it, but I may have overlapping words one way or the other. So, I'm actually using words.
Fred Schepisi
#48. One can get closer to reality and the facts by using words, questions and answers.
Sandor Marai
#49. Women prefer to draw blood using words. It can cause just as much havoc, but it doesn't stain the carpet.
Karen Hawkins
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. 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
#53. People use you and what do you do? You use them too.. We all are mean!
Honeya
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. 127. Craft a poem about sadness and darkness but using only positive words.
Ryan Andrew Kinder
#57. 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
#58. We cannot be too careful about the words we use; we start out using them and they end up using us.
Eugene H. Peterson
#59. I practice using my voice, shaping my lips around the familiar words unfamiliar to my mouth.
Tahereh Mafi
#60. The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
Thomas Jefferson
#61. You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're using different words.
S.I. Hayakawa
#62. 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
#63. 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
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. I feel like I can communicate much better using images than words.
Gia Coppola
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. I'm fighting against the bad poet who is prone to using too many words.
Wislawa Szymborska
#70. Words and prayers are powerful agreements, and you need to see what kind you are using every day.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#71. White House is ranting up its rhetoric for Republicans, using wild words to attack them over the budget standoff.
Andrea Tantaros
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. You are what it takes and matter the most when you decide to accomplish using your true potential.
Steven Cuoco
#82. 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
#83. 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
#84. Programme names have been changed, and we have Andrew Neil saying he won't be using long words.
Jonathan Dimbleby
#85. 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
#86. To engender empathy and create a world using only words is the closest thing we have to magic.
Lin-Manuel Miranda
#87. 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
#88. 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
#89. 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
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. Not everyone can understand your language like using "BTW", "BRB", "SAA" and many other such type of short words.
Deyth Banger
#95. 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
#96. I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words.
Georges Simenon
#97. 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
#99. 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
#100. 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
