Direct Quote by C. S. Lewis Download Open image “Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one.” — C. S. Lewis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Direct Inspirational Language Long Love Vague
I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague. — J. L. Austin Copy Share Image
Short words but has big meaning is much better than lots words with no sense at all. — Mitch Alapan Copy Share Image
Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Prefer the familiar word to the far-fetched. Prefer the concrete word to the abstract. Prefer the single word to the circumlocution. Prefer the short… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I like writing in an illustrative, descriptive way. I prefer describing to rather than explaining. — Iron & Wine Copy Share Image
Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge. Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words when short are best of… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
If you can't say anything nice, at least have the decency to be vague. — Susan Andersen Copy Share Image
Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
One of our great allies at present is the Church itself. Do not misunderstand me. I do not mean the Church as we see… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Either Jesus is the Son of God ; or a madman or worse. But His being just a great teacher? He's not left that… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
To every soul, God will look like its first love because He IS its first love. Your place in heaven will seem to be… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Don't you understand anything? Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and a fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that. As” — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“When He died in the Wounded World He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
All I am in private life is a literary critic and historian, that's my job...And I'm prepared to say on that basis if anyone… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
The first fact in the history of Christendom is a number of people who say they have seen the Resurrection. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I#pray because the need flows out of me all the time-walking and sleeping. It does not change # God - it changes me. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Are the gods not just?' 'Oh no, child. What would become us us if they were? — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
One of the deepest and strangest of all human moods is the mood which will suddenly strike us perhaps in a garden at night,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing… — John Ford Copy Share Image
The method of magnitude estimation provided a direct measure of sensation. — Stanley Smith Stevens Copy Share Image
A place has almost the shyness of a person, with strangers; and its secret is not to be surprised by a too direct interrogation. — Arthur Symons Copy Share Image
The prediction of nuclear winter is drawn not, of course, from any direct experience with the consequences of global nuclear war, but rather from… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
By the time you get into other kinds of music - R&B, country, or whatever - it becomes something that's romantic. It becomes something… — Talib Kweli Copy Share Image
There's little in taking or giving, There's little in water or wine: This living, this living, this living, Was never a project of mine.… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
If you take all the food aid, America is by far the most generous country. If you take the direct aid, we're very generous.… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
I understand the formula that producers hire directors and directors are hired to direct and actors are hired to act. I don't have any… — Danny Trejo Copy Share Image
They are the gateway for our modern esthetic development, the prophets of the new time. They are most of all, the primitives of the… — Marsden Hartley Copy Share Image
