#words

They call it golf because all the other four letter words were taken. ↗

— Raymond Floyd

#call #four #golf #letter #other

If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.' ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#ask #correction #disorder #expect #linguistic

People have always said - those words, 'too conservative,' is fairly relative. I'm sure that they probably said that about Thomas Jefferson and George Washington and Benjamin Franklin. ↗

— Sharron Angle

#always #benjamin #benjamin franklin #conservative #fairly

I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison. ↗

— Jeffrey Archer

#done #first #i #million #never

Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#chew #dictated #fill #hunger #language

TV - a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. However, it is our latest medium - we call it a medium because nothing's well done. ↗

— Goodman Ace

#call #clever #contraction #derived #done

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#mouths #old #old people #our #people

The words of truth are simple. ↗

— Aeschylus

#truth #words

I was a very bad journalist. Awful. I would just invent everything. If I did an interview, I had a preconception of what that person should say and I would put my words in his mouth. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#bad #did #everything #had #his

It wasn't supposed to. It was just supposed to stop you from hurting yourself.” “It helps—” “No it doesn't. It just pushes it away temporarily. Just like the booze.” “But I need—” “You need to let yourself feel. Feel it, own it. Then move on.” “You make it sound so easy.” Bitterness drips from each syllable. “It’s not. It’s the fucking hardest thing a person can do.” I smooth a damp strand out of her face and away from my mouth. “It’s the hardest fucking thing. It’s why we drink and do drugs and fight. It’s why I play music and build engines. ↗

— Jasinda Wilder

#colton #cope #coping #cutting #drinking