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Words Quotes by Mark Twain
- ...and last but not least, reflecting my feelings on proofreading...excuse any pages on my websites that have misspelled words or grammatical errors...I'm not a proofreader…
- Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of…
- A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or newspaper the resulting effect…
- What is the real function, the essential function, the supreme function, of language? Isn't it merely to convey ideas and emotions? Certainly. Then if we…
- Your actions speak so much louder than words.
- An ecstasy is a thing that will not go into words; it feels like music.
- I hate editors, for they make me abandon a lot of perfectly good English words.
- You see, he knew his own laws just as other people so often know the laws: by words, not by effects. They take a meaning,…
- I am trying to get the hang of this new fangled writing machine, but I am not making a shining success of it. However, this…
- An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and…
- Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
- What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is…
- Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.
- The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
- What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is…
- I don't see any use in having a uniform and arbitrary way of spelling words. We might as well make all clothes alike and cook…
- Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.
- Words are only painted fire, a look is the fire itself. She gave that look, and carried it away to the treasury of heaven, where…
- I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English―it is the modern way and…
- The pause - that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever…
More Words Quotes
- Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. — Francis of Assisi
- When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something… — Chinua Achebe
- Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and… — Rowan Atkinson
- I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases… — Margaret Atwood
- The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is… — Margaret Atwood
- The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living. — Wystan Hugh Auden