Unfamiliar Words Quotes

#1. Wasing the where of needing, she read, forming the unfamiliar words. The lofty tongue was used for old documents dating to the time of the Origin, and occasionally for government ceremony.

Brandon Sanderson

#2. The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.

Hippocrates

#3. Anyway, all these computers and digital gadgets are no good. They just fill your head with numbers and that can't be good for you.

Prince

#4. You know who's also joining the Wall Street protesters? Kanye West. That's a real good idea
a guy with diamonds in his teeth protesting greed.

David Letterman

#5. If we took Congress seriously, we would be worrying all the time.

Will Rogers

#6. Words are strange that way, aren't they? Your own thoughts can sound unfamiliar and strange when they are out there, spoken in the world, as though they have taken on a life of their own.

Anna Elliott

#7. The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armory of the modern commander.

T.E. Lawrence

#8. Believe it or not, friendships are difficult to write in fiction. They can easily come across as forced, particularly if they involve too much explication and too many overt gestures of affection.

Steven Erikson

#9. Can't I?" he said. "Did you know that they fertilized crops with human ash? After the war, the tomatoes were the size of an infant's head." He gave the words the same inflection that his grandfather did, only in English. They had a new but not unfamiliar sound on his tongue. He knew how to say them.

Boris Fishman

#10. The correct statement of the laws of physics involves some very unfamiliar ideas which require advanced mathematics for their description. Therefore, one needs a considerable amount of preparatory training even to learn what the words mean.

Richard P. Feynman

#11. Only one way to cover a story like this, and make that a double, bartender, please.

P. J. O'Rourke

#12. It would be wrong to refuse to face the fact that everything is fundamentally sick and sad.

Thomas Bernhard

#13. Having a cellmate might be okay. Talking to a real human being might make things easier. I practice using my voice, shaping my lips around the familiar words unfamiliar to my mouth. I practice all day. I'm surprised I remember how to speak.

Tahereh Mafi

#14. Remind yourself that your mental & emotional health are important.

Allan Lokos

#15. You always have to know what business you are in. Everybody thought we were in the basketball business. It's an NBA-team; we are not in the basketball business. We are in the business of creating experiences and memories.

Mark Cuban

#16. Every object tells a story if you know how to read it.

Henry Ford

#17. If they had rankings in baseball, maybe I would have been able to do the math and figure out my chances of being a professional baseball player versus a tennis player. But that was the decision-maker for me, I just thought I was better in tennis.

Jim Courier

#18. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master.

Sid Meier

#19. I kind of feel like I didn't have much choice. The songs ... the playing ... those were the only things that ever really kept my attention.

Charlie Worsham

#20. The meaning of the world does not reside in the world.

Apostolos Doxiadis

#21. There was nothing so very unfamiliar about the excitement she was feeling, and yet it felt always like a new excitement. It was, in other words, a perennially unfamiliar feeling.

Soseki Natsume

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

Tahereh Mafi

#23. If readers must puzzle over unfamiliar or ambiguous words, you are making them work harder than they need to.

Crawford Kilian

#24. Writers who hedge their use of unfamiliar, infrequent, or informal words with 'I know that's not a real word,' hoping to distance themselves from criticism, run the risk of creating doubt where perhaps none would have naturally arisen.

Erin McKean