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.
As I speak to you today, government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics.
If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed the deeper they burn.
If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
It is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors.
In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
I like writing and don't confine myself to just the words or just the music. But I don't particularly write songs with myself in mind.
So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.
The words of confirmation into the Church are an invitation: 'Receive the Holy Ghost.' And that choice must be made not once, but every day, every hour, every minute.
We must teach our children to resolve their conflicts with words, not weapons.
Churchill had a marvelous way with words, and greatness accompanied him like a shadow, but in certain ways, he was a 19th-century man wandering, confounded, in the 20th.
We continue to confront racism from our past and our present, which is why we must hold everyone, from the highest offices to our own families, accountable for racist words and deeds and call racism what it is - wrong.
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests.
Democracy is still a radical idea in a world where we often confuse images with realities, words with actions.
Surely it is a magical thing for a handful of words, artfully arranged, to stop time. To conjure a place, a person, a situation, in all its specificity and dimensions. To affect us and alter us, as profoundly as real people and things do.
You may choose your words like a connoisseur, And polish it up with art, But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays, Is the word that comes from the heart.
I have several books I can read over and over. With fiction, it's 'The Stand' by Stephen King, which is my favorite all time. I read that at least once a year, the version which has 100,000 extra words, which is like the director's cut and unabridged. I love the story. I love the social connotation to it.
Some of the words that pop up on the show have had terrible connotations. But that's the beauty of 'Countdown.'
