#words

I prefer being known for my stand-up because I write it. I love being an actor, and saying other people's words is great. But then, when I do stand-up, I love getting my own point of view out there. ↗

— Kathy Griffin

#because #being #getting #great #i

Command that your marshal be careful to be present over the household, and especially in the hall, to keep the household, within doors and without, respectable, without dispute or noise, or bad words. ↗

— Robert Grosseteste

#be careful #careful #command #dispute #doors

Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. ↗

— William Strunk, Jr.

#contain #drawing #lines #machine #paragraph

I set myself 600 words a day as a minimum output, regardless of the weather, my state of mind or if I'm sick or well. There must be 600 finished words-not almost right words. ↗

— Arthur Hailey

#day #finished #i #mind #minimum

In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better. ↗

— John B. S. Haldane

#arousing #better #description #emotion #fact

Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment. ↗

— Learned Hand

#environment #reflect #their #which #words

I think it's a little simplistic to explain a work through the psychology of its author. In other words, that Haneke has emotional problems, so I don't have to take his films seriously. By using this argument, the viewer retreats from the challenges of the film. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#author #challenges #emotional #explain #film

The Law is but words and paper without the hands of swords of men. ↗

— James Harrington

#law #men #paper #swords #without

Poets write the words you have heard before but in a new sequence. ↗

— Brian Harris

#heard #new #poets #sequence #words

The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#different #different things #getting #giving #information