#word

The word diva to me means doing something supernatural with something natural. ↗

— Patti LuPone

#doing #me #means #natural #something

He took me from not being able to write a word in terms of writing screenplays to being the king of wooden dialogue. ↗

— George Lucas

#being #dialogue #king #me #screenplays

To me, a story can be both concrete and abstract, or a concrete story can hold abstractions. And abstractions are things that really can't be said so well with words. ↗

— David Lynch

#both #concrete #hold #me #really

I don't think I've ever put it in words before. But daddy took a gun and ended his life and took momma's with him. ↗

— Shelby Lynne

#daddy #ended #ever #gun #him

Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us unthinkingly. ↗

— Ninon de L'Enclos

#flattering #prepare #really #those #unthinkingly

I want to make a summing up, brief and to the point, but thorough. I have never suppressed a word in my books out of regard for other people and their prejudices. ↗

— John Henry Mackay

#brief #i #make #never #other

Accomplishment is such a patronizing, dangerous word, isn't it? I haven't really accomplished anything. The most accomplished thing I've done is to have lived this long - 81. ↗

— Patrick Macnee

#accomplishment #anything #dangerous #done #haven

These things don't just come, arrive and settle like a bird picking up a few bits of crumbs. They develop. I think the best word for these things is develop. They develop because of the human beings who just happen to be there at the time. ↗

— Patrick Macnee

#because #beings #best #bird #bits

Philosophy is common sense with big words. ↗

— James Madison

#common #common sense #philosophy #sense #words

Words can be like baseball bats when used maliciously. ↗

— Sydney Madwed

#bats #like #maliciously #used #words