- Nov 07, 2020
Words Quotes
Words carry more weight than we plan for.
This set spans the everyday and the pointed - a playful warning about overusing absolute words like "always" and "never," and a reminder that English still has more words than any one person can hold in their head. Related reading in Good Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Emotional
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- Nov 07, 2020
Beneath words and logic are emotional connections that largely direct how we use our words and logic.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Dreams can be like charades in which we act out words rather than see or speak them.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love classical music and have been playing violin since I was seven. Music helps me to express feelings in a way words often cannot.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
We don't know anything about racism. We've never experienced it. If words can make a difference in your life for seven minutes, how would it affect you if you heard this every day of your life?
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don't go away, they just echo around.
- Proud
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- Nov 07, 2020
Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was on 'Murder She Wrote' with Angela Lansbury. She was fantastic... she was lovely to everyone, she was always on time, prepared. Whereas when I worked with Bob Hope, he didn't know his lines. He had to have these huge big cards... he hardly said two words to me all day.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandmother would give me a beautiful book each year. I especially loved the Beatrix Potter books. They were very detailed. And I promised myself that was what I'd do. I also loved the big words she used. I was excited because I knew what they meant from the context. I put a few big words in for just that reason.
- Mysterious
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up hearing words like snakeroot, sassafras, mullein - things that had wondrous, mysterious sounds in their names.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hank Cochran was a man of very few words, but certainly the words that he chose were the right ones to use.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to spell everything phonetically, or I would have little tricks for words I could not figure out.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
The days when the words 'Hollywood actor' framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID tag and an implied insult seem far-off and quaint: nearly everybody in politics - candidate, consultant, pundit, and Tea Party crowd extra alike - is an actor now, a shameless ham in a hoked-up reality series that never stops.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020