#word

The word 'leukemia' is a very frightening word. In many instances, it's a killer and it's something that you have to deal with in a very serious and determined way if you're going to beat it. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#deal #determined #frightening #going #instances

No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded. ↗

— Lascelles Abercrombie

#ever #founded #his #knows #only

I burned out my drawing hand by using it too much. The common word for it is writer's cramp. The fancy words for it are focal dystonia. The symptom in my case was a pinky finger that went spastic when I tried to draw. ↗

— Scott Adams

#case #common #cramp #draw #drawing

Never comment on a woman's rear end. Never use the words "large" or "size" with "rear end." Never. Avoid the area altogether. Trust me. ↗

— Tim Allen

#area #avoid #comment #end #large

Where words fail, music speaks. ↗

— Hans Christian Andersen

#music #speaks #where #words

Compassion doesn't, of course, mean feeling sorry for people, or pity, which is how the word has become emasculated in a way. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#compassion #course #feeling #how #mean

In the past some of the most influential Jewish, Christian and Muslim theologians, such as Maimonides, Aquinas and Ibn Sina, made it clear that it was very difficult to speak about God, because when we confront the ultimate, we are at the end of what words or thoughts can do. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#because #christian #clear #confront #difficult

And that's how I start myself. I usually go back a couple of pages, maybe to the beginning of the chapter, and I start reading. And as I'm reading, I'm tweaking - putting in a different word, changing the syntax, putting that clause over there, you know that sort of thing. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

#beginning #changing #chapter #clause #couple

Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us. ↗

— Jane Austen

#different #different things #may #more #often

Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague. ↗

— J. L. Austin

#properly #themselves #uses #usually #vague