Word Choice Quotes
Word Choice Quote of the day
One does not hold a conversation with him. One holds a symposium. – Elizabeth Drew
Words are catch-basins of experience, fingerprints and footprints of the past that the literary detective may scrutinize in order to sleuth out the history of human consciousness.
The letter is too belligerent. If I were you, I would state the facts as they were, without the pepper and salt. Abraham Lincoln
Desire, if it is to be trusted, is to be inspired by a holy vocabulary.
Human understanding more easily invents new things than new words.
He was telling an interesting anecdote full of exciting words like "encyclopedia" and "rhododendron".
Lincoln bought a German language newspaper.
Offstage, I couldn't put things into words, and that was the one thing I'd always been able to rely on. Putting my feelings into words and praying they wouldn't be able to get out again.
Lewis is like a gateway, making the riches of Deep Church more accessible.
He said it twice because he had never said it before, and it sounded funny.
Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, "tuned the English tongue.
Only a writer "with Bennett's craft and brass could manage to praise and insult his readers at the same time.
Lincoln on a desire to hear Horace Greeley speak: "In print, every one of his words seems to weigh about a ton.
At times, said the founder of the Chicago Tribune, Lincoln seemed to reach into the clouds and take out the thunderbolts.
I have not done enough for effect." Horace Greeley
John F. Kennedy responded, as he often did when at his best, skillfully mixing dollops of wit with, self-deprecation, and the principle of not-really-going-near-the-question.
His only weakness was the habit of prophesying war within the next fortnight. George Bernard Shaw
You can use the power of words to bury meaning or to excavate it.
In the infancy of society every author is necessarily a poet, because language itself is poetry. – Owen Barfield
Vocabulary for aggravation is large. Vocabulary for transcendence is elusive.
