#words

One should be willing to throw away a dozen ideas to come up with a good one, just as one should throw away a dozen words to come up with the right one. ↗

— James Gunn

#come #dozen #good #ideas #just

Words are Hamlet's constant companions, his weapons, and his defenses. ... And yet, words also serve as Hamlet's prison. He analyzes and examines every nuance of his situation until he has exhausted every angle. They cause him to be indecisive. He dallies in his own wit, intoxicated by the mix of words he can concoct; he frustrates his own burning desire to be more like his father, the Hyperion. When he says that Claudius is "... no more like my father than I to Hercules" he recognizes his enslavement to words, his inability to thrust home his sword of truth. No mythic character is Hamlet. He is stuck, unable to avenge his father's death because words control him. ↗

— Carla Lynn Stockton

#death

I honestly can't characterize my style in words. It seems that whatever comes to me naturally, I play. ↗

— Coleman Hawkins

#comes #honestly #i #me #naturally

But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand. ↗

— Ernest Holmes

#christian religion #even #few #hidden #meaning

Maybe I was praying for him then, in my own way. Does God have a set way of prayer, a way that He expects each of us to follow? I doubt it. I believe some people-- lots of people-- pray through the witness of their lives, through the work they do, the friendships they have, the love they offer people and receive from people. Since when are words the only acceptable form of prayer? ↗

— Dorothy Day

#god #love #prayer #witness #words

I try and do 2,500 words a day, every day of the year. ↗

— Tom Holt

#every #every day #i #try #words

In the end, all business operations can be reduced to three words: people, product, and profits. ↗

— Lee Iacocca

#end #in the end #operations #people #product

In talking, shyness and timidity distort the very meaning of my words. I don't pretend to know anybody well. People are like shadows to me and I am like a shadow. ↗

— Gwen John

#anybody #distort #i #i am #know

A million words were going through my head and honestly I didn't say one of them. I wanted to let it sit, simmer, you know I wanted to soak it all in - the moment was amazing. ↗

— Stefano Langone

#going #head #honestly #i #know

By this act the president alone is empowered to make the law, to fix in his mind what acts, words, what thoughts or looks, shall constitute such a crime. ↗

— Edward Livingston

#acts #alone #constitute #crime #empowered