Best Using Words Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“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.”

Mean Ends Names Language Understanding Tasks Instruments Heal Cherish Precision Stewards Using Words

Book:Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies

Source: Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies

“As parents, we can do a great deal to further this goal by helping our children develop alternative ways of knowing the world verbally/analytically and visually/spatially. During the crucial early years, parents can help to shape a child's life in such a way that words do not completely mask other kinds of reality. My most urgent suggestions to parents are concerned with the use of words, or rather, not using words.”

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Author:Betty Edwards

“Morality in government begins with officials using words as honestly as possible to describe the truth.”

Government Morality Honestly Officials Using Words

Author:David Gergen

“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.”

People Way Trying Believe Political Our Lives Capable Ultimate Activism One Way Optimist Penetrate Using Words

Author:Cherrie Moraga

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

Home Expression Beans Nonverbal Using Words

Author:Rowan Atkinson

“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.”

Lost Sound Fit Trade Novelists Using Words

Author:Woodrow Wilson

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

Knows Way Kind Moving Flying Aviation Poetry Is Finest Using Words

Book:Comedy: American Style

Source: Comedy: American Style

“Demagogues are so easy to identify. They gesture a lot and speak with pulpit rhythms, using words that ring of religious fervour and god-fearing sincerity. Sincerity with nothing behind it takes so much practice. The practice can always be detected. Repetition. Great attempts to keep your attention on words.”

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Author:Frank Herbert

“Isn't telling about something-using words, English or Japanese-already something of an invention? Isn't just looking upon this world already something of an invention?”

World This World Invention Using Words

Book:Life Of Pi, Illustrated

Source: Life Of Pi, Illustrated

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

Adages Using Words

Author:Jeremy Jordan

“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.”

Speak Stuff Everyday Casual Using Words Limiting Yourself

Author:Jeremy Jordan

“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.”

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Author:Fred Schepisi

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

People Government Policy Please Profession Architect Government Policy Using Words

Author:David Burge

“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?”

Knows Want Needs Praying Using Words

Author:Miguel Angel Ruiz

“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.”

People Way Years Art Ends Helping Shows Fun Felt Fine Art Is Critics Busy Awards Good Way Rating Award Shows Using Words

Author:Steven Van Zandt

“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.”

Feelings Angry Structure Load Primal Imposing Using Words Angry Feelings

Author:John Darnielle

“We have rapidly increasing technology, which is making life very good for people who are good at using words, and not so good for people who are not good at using words.”

People Technology Very Good Using Words

Author:David Brooks

“Bobby made references to me a few times on Show Me The Money. He seemed to enjoy using words like 'sangnamja (T/N: true man, also the title for 'Boy in Luv') and 'leading a fast life' (T/N: pronounced as Bangtang). Saying "Like a true man, I lead a fast life" isn't a common mix of words, right? I thought that it wasn't just a coincidence.”

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Author:Kim Nam-joon

“Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”

“Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.”

“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.”

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Author:David Lee Roth

“A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls. Story-tellers and poets spend their lives learning that skill and art of using words well. And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper.”

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Author:Ursula K. Le Guin

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

“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.”

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Author:Patrick Rothfuss

“Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.”

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Author:Samuel Johnson

“So you want another story?" Uhh... no. We would like to know what really happened." Doesn't the telling of something always become a story?" Uhh... perhaps in English. In Japanese a story would have an element of invention in it. We don't want any invention. We want the 'straight facts,' as you say in English." Isn't telling about something--using words, English or Japanese--already something of an invention? Isn't just looking upon this world already something of an invention?”

Knows World Want Facts Stories Happened This World Elements Invention Using Words

Book:Life of Pi

Source: Life of Pi

“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.”

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Author:Mark Haddon

“However, as words become particularized, and as men begin - in however small a way - to use them in personal, arbitrary ways, so their transformation into art begins. It was words of this kind that, descending on me like a swarm of winged insects, seized on my individuality and sought to shut me up within it. Nevertheless, despite the enemy's depredations upon my person, I turned their universality - at once a weapon and a weakness - back on them, and to some extent succeeded in using words to universalize to my own individuality.”

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Author:Yukio Mishima

“So what's the point of using words nobody else knows or can say comfortably? I just don't understand that.”

Knows Using Words

Book:The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition

“I call her Wild Woman, for those very words, wild and woman, create llamar o tocar a la puerta, the fairy-tale knock at the door of the deep feminine psyche. Llamar o tocar a la puerta means literally to play upon the instrument of the name in order to open a door. It means using words that summon up the opening of a passageway. No matter by which culture a woman is influenced, she understands the words wild and woman, intuitively.”

Mean Matter Play Order Culture Names Doors Instruments Tales Opening Fairy Feminine Fairy Tale Using Words Wild Women

Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“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.”

Littles Long I Can Speak Silence Packs Using Words

Author:Herta Muller

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

Writing Stories Together Reader Prove Sentences Logical Strings Writers And Writing Writing By Writers Story Writing Writing Stories Creativity And Writing Story Writers Using Words

Author:Anne McCaffrey

“Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef.”

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Author:Tom Robbins

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

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Author:John Ray

“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.”

Ifs Mean Art Sound Elements Tasks Sight Commit Agony Prisms Using Words

Author:Archibald MacLeish

“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.”

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Author:Brian Kilcommons

“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.”

People Believe Hands I Believe Sex Knowing Streets Honesty Boxes I Believe In Good Times Fists Outrage Good Food Using Words

Author:Bertrand Russell

“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.”

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Author:Cecil Day-Lewis

“Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.”

“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.”

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Author:Paulo Coelho

“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.”

Ifs Way Heard Jokes Gestures Precise Pacing Using Words

Author:Rita Dove

“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.”

Country Objects Essentials Projects Pork Aquariums Using Words

Author:John Breaux

“I believe in using words, not fists.”

Believe I Believe Boxes I Believe In Fists Outrage Using Words

Author:Susan Sarandon

“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.”

People Trying Heart Has Beens Real Teacher Direct Method Inspired Philosopher Intuition Great Teacher Using Words

Author:Paul Brunton

“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.”

Reason Written No Point Using Words

Author:Theodore Sturgeon

“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.”

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Author:Jodelle Ferland

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