Word Choice Quotes: top 53 famous quotes about Word Choice

Word Choice Quotes & Sayings

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for those to whom Lynne Truss is a hero, everything from spelling convention to word choice to logic is, somehow, "grammar." And — Robert Lane Greene

The letter is too belligerent. If I were you, I would state the facts as they were, without the pepper and salt. Abraham Lincoln — Harold Holzer

The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose. — Idries Shah

You can use the power of words to bury meaning or to excavate it. — Rebecca Solnit

Language construction will BREED a mythology. J.R.R. Tolkien — Philip Zaleski

Choice word and measured phrase above the reach Of ordinary men. — William Wordsworth

Knowing before ever seeing it that her ass was like a stationary drop of water on a flower stem — Brian McGreevy

Charity, if you have the means, is a personal choice, but charity which is expected or compelled is simply a polite word for slavery. — Terry Goodkind

At times, said the founder of the Chicago Tribune, Lincoln seemed to reach into the clouds and take out the thunderbolts. — Harold Holzer

Pause and remember
Every moment is a choice. Every thought, word and deed is creating your future. Choose wisely and positively! — Jennifer Young

The key word for transportation in the 21st is 'choice.' — Anthony Foxx

CS Lewis's humor supported his exposition but never dominated or diminished it. — Greg Cootsona

Human understanding more easily invents new things than new words. — Alexis De Tocqueville

Being offended is a choice. I believe that. You don't have - you don't hear a word and you have to be offended. — John Bartlett

One breaks into the canon only by aesthetic strength. — Harold Bloom

There is not a day that we do not have a chance to choose between the devil's clever promises and God's sure Word. — Billy Graham

If I had my choice of all the blessings I can conceive of I would choose perfect conformity to the Lord Jesus, or, in one word, holiness. — Charles Spurgeon

I have not done enough for effect." Horace Greeley — Harold Holzer

Words and magic are two powerful forces that can change the world. — Amy Neftzger

He uses the nice old words so rich in tradition to be sure I know he means it. — Frank Herbert

Must we argue word choice? Now? — Rachel Caine

Ro winks. "I forgive you, Dol-face."
Then, without a word, he takes off running and I have no choice but to follow. — Margaret Stohl

Holy [Insert your choice of a swear word here], said Fang stunned. — James Patterson

People from the most horrendous of childhoods can have good lives, but it comes down to a very seemingly simple word. 'Choice.' — Laura Schlessinger

Lewis is like a gateway, making the riches of Deep Church more accessible. — Alister E. McGrath

He was telling an interesting anecdote full of exciting words like "encyclopedia" and "rhododendron". — A.A. Milne

His only weakness was the habit of prophesying war within the next fortnight. George Bernard Shaw — Barbara W. Tuchman

No one will be forced to take the public option. The word option means choice. — Valerie Jarrett

Samuel Johnson said Alexander Pope's translation of the Iliad, tuned the English tongue. — Harold Bloom

A good ruler has to learn his world's language, and that's different for every world, the language you don't hear just with your ears. — Frank Herbert

Every word Martone sets down, finally, a choice that limits the universe, their trail across the page a fossil record of some life's life-story. — Michael Martone

Vocabulary for aggravation is large. Vocabulary for transcendence is elusive. — Jennifer Senior

A word out of place or an interesting choice of vocabulary can spawn a whole character. — Sara Sheridan

He said it twice because he had never said it before, and it sounded funny. — A.A. Milne

Only a writer "with Bennett's craft and brass could manage to praise and insult his readers at the same time. — Harold Holzer

Liberty, taking the word in its concrete sense, consists in the ability to choose. — Simone Weil

Peter's privatemost circuitry a sudden and confusing crossfiring at how arousing and simultaneously dick-shriveling this apparition was. — Brian McGreevy

Now I know from this very word and deed of yours what free choice is and is capable of, namely, madness. — Martin Luther

All the specific word choice does is act as a simple frame that impacts our line of reasoning and even our memory — Anonymous

You are at a choice-point in every moment of each circumstance, each activity, spoken word and thought. — Michael Beckwith

Wrath what do you say"
"Fuck' came the reply
"Appropriate word choice, my lord, but not really an answer". — J.R. Ward

Short words are best, and old words when short are best of all. — Winston S. Churchill

I never knew what was meant by choice of words. It was one word or none. — Robert Frost

what say you?" "Fuck," came the reply. "Appropriate word choice, my lord, but not really an answer." Wrath — J.R. Ward

Lincoln on a desire to hear Horace Greeley speak: "In print, every one of his words seems to weigh about a ton. — Harold Holzer

Emily Dickinson sublimely unnames even the blanks. — Harold Bloom

Greeley knew no language but his, but of that, he possessed a most extraordinary mastery. An employee — Harold Holzer

To speak much is one thing; to speak to the point another! — Sophocles

Lincoln bought a German language newspaper. — Harold Holzer

I'm still learning so much with every play I write. So I wrestle with word choice, rhythm in final drafts. I think you have to be ruthless. — Stephen Karam

According to the Word of the Lord, we are called but we have the choice of determining our destiny — Sunday Adelaja

Mistake is act happen unknowingly,Repetition of Mistake is no more mistake but its act of your choice which you try to hide behind the word "Mistake — Mohammed Zaki Ansari

Desire, if it is to be trusted, is to be inspired by a holy vocabulary. — Jen Pollock Michel