Atrophy Quote by George Will Download Open image “Hyperbole expands in societies where articulateness atrophies.” — George Will ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Atrophy Hyperbole Inspirational Love Society
“Hyperbole is an excellent red flag on the route to real wisdom. Conduct” — Caroline Webb Copy Share Image
“Often the things that pop out of my typewriter regale me, especially when I am trying to say something else and in a different… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb. — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“It sometimes seems to me that a pestilence has struck the human race in its most distinctive faculty - that is, the use of… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables. — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
When I was living in China, I learned to make things hyper-explicit because often they were being read by people whose command of English… — James Fallows Copy Share Image
The author isn't altogether certain that there is any such thing as exaggeration. Our brains permit us to use such a wee fraction of… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I have frequently noticed in myself a tendency to a diffuse style; a disposition to push my metaphors too far, employing a multitude of… — Sidney Lanier Copy Share Image
I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action... — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The more syllables a euphemism has, the further divorced from reality it is — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect.” — Norton Juster Copy Share Image
The average American expends more time becoming informed about choosing a car than choosing a candidate. But, then, the consequences of the former choice… — George Will Copy Share Image
A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience. — George Will Copy Share Image
As has been said, standards are always out of date - that is why we call them standards. — George Will Copy Share Image
Hart is still like that little tub of vaguely milklike gunk that comes with airline coffee. It is labeled a "nondairy" product. Fine: we… — George Will Copy Share Image
The realistic way to reduce the amount of money in politics is to reduce the amount of politics in money -- the importance of… — George Will Copy Share Image
It is important that Miers not be confirmed unless, in her 61st year, she suddenly and unexpectedly is found to have hitherto undisclosed interests… — George Will Copy Share Image
Greek philosophers considered sport a religious and civic-in a word, moral-undertaking. Sport, they said, is morally serious because mankind's noblest aim is the loving… — George Will Copy Share Image
The cultivation - even celebration - of victimhood by intellectuals, tort lawyers, politicians and the media is both cause and effect of today's culture… — George Will Copy Share Image
Just as the common law derives from ancient precedents - judges' decisions - rather than statutes, baseball's codes are the game's distilled mores. Their… — George Will Copy Share Image
“Football combines two of the worst things in American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.” — George Will Copy Share Image
The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
Somewhere between the ages of eleven and fifteen, the average child begins to suffer from an atrophy, the paralysis of curiosity and the suspension… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
The modern world’s tech-giddy control and facilitation makes us stupid. Awareness atrophies. Dumb gets dumber. Lists are everywhere – the five things you need… — Roger Cohen Copy Share Image
The disinterest [of my two great-aunts] in anything that had to do with high society was such that their sense of hearing ... put… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
A road that perhaps more than any other leads to self atrophy is undedicated money. — E. Stanley Jones Copy Share Image
There is always this interesting relationship we have with technology. When we invented writing Socrates used to say it was going to rot our… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
I don't believe anything I write or say. I regard belief as a form of brain damage, the death of intelligence, the fracture of… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
The psychological tools I've gained from bodybuilding will never atrophy. — Tom Platz Copy Share Image
Skepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. A man lives… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
There can be no question, however, that prolonged commitment to mathematical exercises in economics can be damaging. It leads to the atrophy of judgement… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some variety of infirmity is a death, a putting… — Coleman Dowell Copy Share Image
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