Top 14 Quotes About Wordsmiths
#1. Wordsmiths who serve established power ... castrate the public imagination by subjecting language to a complexity which renders it private. Elitism is always their aim.
John Ralston Saul
#2. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative. Imaginative people fidget with ideas, including the idea of a relationship. If they're wordsmiths like us, they fidget a lot in words.
Diane Ackerman
#4. We all fall in life The question is who gets back up!
Greg Plitt
#5. The only way an annoyance can bring you down is if you let it.
Frank Sonnenberg
#6. Creative wordsmiths, who need to know the canons of pedestrian prose
Steven Pinker
#7. I just respected comedians whether they were or they weren't, from, you know, new or old.
Steve Martin
#8. Neither of us seemed able to be close to
anyone. Not even each other. Closeness
meant the one you loved the most would
cause you the most damage. How did you
unlearn that? It was woven deep between
every fiber and vessel. You couldn't cut it
out.
Lisa Kleypas
#10. Language doesn't belong to grammarians, linguists, wordsmiths, writers, or editors. It belongs to the people who use it. It goes where people want it to go, and, like a balky mule, you can't make it go where it doesn't want to go.
Rosalie Maggio
#11. Do you know how many people would give anything for what you have? Not the fame or wealth - the opportunity to wake up tomorrow healthy, pain free and with a future stretching out before them?
Sarah Grimm
#12. Amma and Malati called her a beggar, a whore, and it was clear from the disbelief on her face that she had never been spoken to in such manner. [....] On that day I became convinced that it is the words of women that deeply wound other women.
Vivek Shanbhag