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Words Quotes
- "There's no sentence that's too short in the eyes of God."
By: William Zinsser Words Quotes
- "One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die."
By: Evelyn Waugh Words Quotes
- "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 shaved it down till the average is three and a half... I never write "metropolis" for seven cents, because I can get the same money for "city." I never write "policeman," because I can get the same price for "cop."... I never write "valetudinarian" at all, for not even hunger and wretchedness can humble me to the point where I will do a word like that for seven cents; I wouldn't do it for fifteen."
By: Mark Twain Words Quotes
- "Our great men have written words of wisdom to be used when hardship must be faced. Life obliges us with hardship so the words of wisdom shouldn't go to waste."
By: L'Chiam Words Quotes
- "What do you call a boomerang that doesn't work? A stick!"
By: Kirchenbaum Words Quotes
- "Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools."
By: Thomas Hobbes Words Quotes
- "Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use."
By: Ernest Hemingway Words Quotes
- "There isn't much I have to say, that I wouldn't rather just shut up and do."
By: Unknown Words Quotes
- "Words are not even within me. They're not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling that I had."
By: Unknown Words Quotes
- "Words build bridges into unexplored regions."
By: Unknown Words Quotes
- "There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch."
By: Unknown Words Quotes
- "The world is as it should be."
By: Unknown Words Quotes
- "That word, fan, has always kind of bothered me."
By: Unknown Words Quotes
- "What does that mean, this word entertainer? Entertain what? Who?"
By: Unknown Words Quotes
- "But words-words are not enough!"
By: Unknown Words Quotes

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