Language Quote by Robert W. Bly Download Open image ““Avoid pompous words and fancy phrases.”” — Robert W. Bly ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Language
“Avoid fancy words....If you admire fancy words, if every sky is beauteous, every blonde curvaceous, every intelligent child prodigious, if you are tickled by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I have learned to avoid this. The goal is to communicate, not to impress readers with your vocabulary.” — Michael Hyatt Copy Share Image
“Only the educated stop to look for words - having enough to occasionally misplace them.” — Derek B. Miller Copy Share Image
Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“Words are messy, but sometimes, words are all you've got to show what matters most.” — Ann Burg Copy Share Image
“Focus your attention on the quality of your words, and not the quantity, because few sensible talks attracts millions of listeners more than a… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“take care, in reading the writings of philosophers or hearing their speeches, that you do not attend to words more than things, nor get… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“Even in those pieces that seemed to be casually tossed off, I was always searching for the right word, for the proper escape from… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“The repetitions, meaningless expressions, stammers, and nonsensical monosyllables with which we express hesitation, along with the clichés and banalities that constitute so much of… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
Instead of creating aesthetically pleasing prose, you have to dig into a product or service, uncover the reasons why consumers would want to buy… — Robert W. Bly Copy Share Image
“the surest way to arouse and hold the attention of the reader is by being specific, definite, and concrete. The greatest writers—Homer, Dante, Shakespeare—are… — Robert W. Bly Copy Share Image
“the words in your copy should be “like the windows in a storefront. The reader should be able to see right through them and… — Robert W. Bly Copy Share Image
Writers are interested in a diverse range of subjects, but prefer to move from field to field to satisfy intellectual curiosity, rather than devote… — Robert W. Bly Copy Share Image
We are not in the business of being original. We are in the business of reusing things that work. — Robert W. Bly Copy Share Image
“Copywriters are salespeople whose job is to convince people to buy products.” — Robert W. Bly Copy Share Image
“Grade your performance as a copywriter on sales generated by your copy, not on originality.” — Robert W. Bly Copy Share Image
What you want to do as a living and get paid for, others want to do as a hobby and for free. — Robert W. Bly Copy Share Image
“Clever advertising can convince people to try a bad product once. But it can’t convince them to buy a product they’ve already tried and… — Robert W. Bly Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
Usually male directors have to use foul language to get the job done. But I never came down to that level as being a… — Divya Khosla Kumar Copy Share Image
A man walks down the street. It's a street in a strange world. Maybe it's the third world. Maybe it's his first time around.… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new, exciting language. — Samuel Barnett Copy Share Image
I am attracted to looking at the different things language can mean even in one sometimes quite ordinary utterance. Writing is partly about listening… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
What is music? Music is language. A human being wants to express ideas in this language, but not ideas that can be translated into… — Anton Webern Copy Share Image
You're beautiful, cute, pretty, gorgeous, and fuck.. I ran out of words. — Raghib Clitso Copy Share Image
The world has a soul and whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of many things. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“The words for what I want to say right now don't exist. Everything sounds…so cliché.” — Shelly Crane Copy Share Image
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Words can kill you trust towards someone, mind you language people, every reaction had its consequence. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
