#words

I welcome new words, or old words used in new ways, provided the result is more precision, added color or greater expressiveness. ↗

— William Safire

#color #greater #i #more #new

The aim of the poet, or other artist, is first to make something; and it's impossible to make something out of words and not communicate. ↗

— James Schuyler

#artist #communicate #first #impossible #make

Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#case #either #expense #idealism #in other words

In other words, the better they did on the IQ test, the worse they did on the practical test and the better they did on the practical tests, the worse they did on the IQ test. ↗

— Robert Sternberg

#did #in other words #iq #other #practical

In other words, DC was never harmed by the paper shortages. ↗

— Gil Kane

#harmed #in other words #never #other #paper

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill. ↗

— Buddha

#chosen #good #hear #ill #influenced

Now begins a torrent of words and a trickling of sense. ↗

— Theocritus

#now #sense #torrent #words

Just give me a thousand words and you may make your own pictures. ↗

— Erica Goros

#books #pictures #vision #words #art

Life is a mystery to be lived not a problem to be solved ↗

— Clive Ollies

#inspirational-quotes #life #wisdo #words-to-live-by #attitude

Mamma says we would be wise to remember that what goes around usually comes back around to us - the good or the bad - depending on which we dish out. ↗

— Annette Bridges

#inspirational #words-to-live-by #attitude