- 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
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- Nov 07, 2020
Objections to verbification in English tend to be motivated by personal taste, not clarity. Verbed words are usually easily understood. When a word like 'friend' is declared not a verb, the problem isn't that it's confusing; it's that the protester finds it deeply annoying.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the time the traditionally male lexicographers become interested in looking at fashion words, their origins are lost in the mists of time.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of the words you know and love and use every day are not words you learned by looking them up in a dictionary and reading a definition.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't really care about a song or lyrics; I'm really just interested in the way people emphasize words. That's what makes a strong impact on me.
- Sad
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you have ever been in a real tragic or sad situation, the words that come out are hopelessly inadequate and kind of cliched.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
When are programmers happy? They're happy when they're not underutilized - when they're not bored - and also when they're not overburdened with inappropriate specifications or meaningless bureaucracies. In other words, programmers are happiest when they're working efficiently. This is a general preference in creative work.
- Connotations
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know many people on the left are suspicious of words like Americanization. To them, it can sound like a cover for white privilege and warmongering. It suggests arrogance and groupthink. But these connotations are not fixed. It is in our power to reshape them by recalling the best of America.
- Black And White
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- Nov 07, 2020
The summer of 1991, I took $2,000 of my savings and a desktop program, and I asked my friends to write 800 words about something they cared about. I got eight or nine articles and put them together. It was no frills, black and white, no graphics. I printed them out and just dumped piles around D.C.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Ceremony
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I voted against the cap-and-trade bill, the phone rang and it was the chief of staff of the president of the United States of America, Rahm Emanuel, and he started swearing at me in terms and words that I hadn't heard since that crossing the line ceremony on the USS New Jersey in 1983.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
With these scripts and these writers, so much of it is done for me. Because we don't just throw words around: we make sure the audience understands.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the future, things will truncate! No, in the age of Twitter, we can't be upset when words become shorter.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
Language is powerful. Words matter.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020