10 Quotes on Words
October 9th 2006 21:33
Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap - George Bernard Shaw
The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean - Robert Louis Stevenson
These thoughts did not come in any verbal formulation. I rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterward. -
Albert Einstein
Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself - Mark Twain
Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few. - Pythagoras
The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them - Stephen King
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. - George Orwell
Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons. - Aldous Huxley
Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise. - Adolph Hitler
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. - Rudyard Kipling
The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean - Robert Louis Stevenson
These thoughts did not come in any verbal formulation. I rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterward. -
Albert Einstein
Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself - Mark Twain
Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few. - Pythagoras
The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them - Stephen King
The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink. - George Orwell
Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons. - Aldous Huxley
Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise. - Adolph Hitler
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. - Rudyard Kipling
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Comment by Damo
It reminds me of something Richard Bach wrote about in his Illussions. It was something about words having what ever meaning you want them to have. Ready a sentence and you can interpret it a thousand way. Then focus on two word and you can find a meaning. Then one word. Then just two letters. Everyone wil interpret word they way the want.
Comment by Gareth
Thanks for the comment.