#word

A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#advice #necessary #need #ones #stupid

Look, words are like the air: they belong to everybody. Words are not the problem; it's the tone, the context, where those words are aimed, and in whose company they are uttered. Of course murderers and victims use the same words, but I never read the words utopia, or beauty, or tenderness in police descriptions. Do you know that the Argentinean dictatorship burnt The Little Prince ? And I think they were right to do so, not because I do not love The Little Prince , but because the book is so full of tenderness that it would harm any dictatorship. ↗

— Juan Gelman

#the-little-prince #words #beauty

Men won't read any email from a woman that's over 200 words long. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#any #email #long #over #read

I don't find the whole 'cougar' word that offensive. ↗

— Courteney Cox

#i #offensive #whole #word

Again like Williams, with the emphasis now regrettable, when a man makes a poem, makes it mind you, he takes the words as he finds them lying interrelated about him. ↗

— Robert Creeley

#again #emphasis #finds #him #interrelated

I hate that word, mature, but I guess I am growing up. ↗

— Sheryl Crow

#growing #growing up #guess #hate #i

But I don't think that poetry is a good, to use a contemporary word, venue, for current events. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#current #current events #events #good #i

The trouble with the dictionary is that you have to know how a word is spelled before you can look it up to see how it is spelled. ↗

— Will Cuppy

#dictionary #how #know #look #see

I don't even like to use the word relationship. I don't know what it means. ↗

— Ron Silver

#even #i #know #like #means

The Normans came over, lance in hand, burning and trampling down every thing before them, and cutting off the Saxon dynasty and the Saxon nobles at the edge of the sword; but the right of petition remained untouched. ↗

— Caleb Cushing

#burning #came #cutting #down #dynasty