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  • What seems to sell books is good word-of-mouth, not promotion tours. I'm too old to believe that media promotion of a book really matters. What matters is how it will look 100 years from now, not how many copies are sold.

  • Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips.

    Little Dorrit bk. 2, ch. 5 (1857)
  • Good words will not give my people good health and stop them from dying. Good words will not get my people a home where they can live in peace and take care of themselves. I am tired of talk that comes to nothing. It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and broken promises.

    Home   Tired   Heart  
  • Templeton was down there now, rummaging around. When he returned to the barn, he carried in his mouth an advertisement he had torn from a crumpled magazine. How's this?" he asked, showing the ad to Charlotte. It says 'Crunchy.' 'Crunchy' would be a good word to write in your web." Just the wrong idea," replied Charlotte. "Couldn't be worse. We don't want Zuckerman to think Wilbur is crunchy. He might start thinking about crisp, crunchy bacon and tasty ham. That would put ideas into his head. We must advertise Wilbur's noble qualities, not his tastiness.

  • Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.

    Order   Speech   Speak  
    Francis Bacon, David Mallet (1740). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, Lord High Chancellor of England ...: With Several Additional Pieces, Never Before Printed in Any Edition of His Works. To which is Prefixed, a New Life of the Author”, p.349
  • Good words are worth much, and cost little.

    George Herbert, Christopher Harvey (1853). “The poetical works of George Herbert: With life, critical dissertation, and explanatory notes”, p.297, [s.n.]
  • He has so often told me he is madly in love with me, but what does that mean when I haven't had a good word from him in three months?

    Mean   Months   Doe  
  • And if God's good word goes unspoken, the music goes all night.

    Life   Night   Good Words  
    "Song: "Don't Push"". "40 Oz. to Freedom", June 1, 1992.
  • True honour is an attachment to honest and beneficent principles, and a good reputation; and prompts a man to do good to others, and indeed to all men, at his own cost, pains, or peril. False honour is a pretence to this character, but does things that destroy it: And the abuse of honour is called honour, by those who from that good word borrow credit to act basely, rashly, or foolishly.

    Pain   Character   Men  
    "Cato's Letter" No. 57, Of false Honour, publick and private, December 16, 1721.
  • Your good thoughts, good words and good deeds alone will be your intercessors. Nothing more will be wanted. They alone will serve you as a safe pilot to the harbour of Heaven, as a safe guide to the gates of paradise.

  • How many things would be different in everyone’s surroundings if we hadn’t lived? How a good word many have encouraged some fellow and did something to him that he did it differently and better than he would otherwise. And through him somebody else was saved. How much we contribute to each other, how powerful we each are-and don’t know it.

  • There's often a distressing disconnect between the good words we speak and the way we live our lives. In personal relations and politics, the mass media, the academy and organized religion, our good words tend to float away even as they leave our lips, ascending to an altitude where they neither reflect nor connect with the human condition. We long for words like love, truth, and justice to become flesh and dwell among us. But in our violent world, it's risky business to wrap our frail flesh around words like those, and we don't like the odds.

    Odds   Media   Like Love  
  • The good word of the Lord with which we must nourish is the simple doctrine of the gospel. We need not fear either simplicity or repetition.

  • The stars, that in their courses roll, Have much instruction given; But Thy good Word informs my soul How I may climb to Heaven.

    Stars   Heaven   Soul  
    Isaac Watts (1856). “Twenty-Eight Divine Songs for the use of Children”, p.21
  • The only two good words that can be said for a hurricane are that it gives sufficient warning of its approach, and that it blows from one point of the compass at a time.

    Blow   Weather   Two  
    gertrude atherton (1916). “the conqueror”
  • We do not increase compassion by expanding it to cover anything. Instead, we kill a good word by making it mean too much, and nothing.

    Marvin Olasky (1994). “The Tragedy of American Compassion”, p.232, Regnery Publishing
  • I think maybe the figures - that's a good word - the figures in my pictures are stand-ins for my own need to make a connection.

    Source: theamericanreader.com
  • There is all the poetry in the world in a name. It is a poem which the mass of men hear and read. What is poetry in the common sense, but a hearing of such jingling names? I want nothing better than a good word. The name of a thing may easily be more than the thing itself to me.

  • For some of us, the Gypsy years can go on forever ... That isn't such a bad thing. When all is said and done, they're a lot of fun. The truth is, I liked being a Gypsy. It's who I was. And it's still a lot of who I am. Gypsy, it's a good word.

    Fun   Who I Am   Years  
  • It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.

  • Every good thought, every good word, every good emotion, and every act of kindness, is lifting the vibration of your being to new heights. And as you begin to raise your vibration, a new life and a new world will reveal itself to you.

  • There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story... don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes for the words--the language. Don't be like the play-it-safers who won't do that. But when you find a book that has both a good story and good words, treasure that book.

    Book   Writing   Play  
    Stephen King (2017). “Hearts in Atlantis”, p.25, Simon and Schuster
  • Take up your own daily cross; it is the burden best suited for your shoulder, and will prove most effective to make you perfect in every good word and work to the glory of God.

    Perfect   Glory   Burden  
    Charles Spurgeon (2011). “Strengthen My Spirit”, p.24, Barbour Publishing
  • My dad is my everything. He always had the craziest speeches for Kylie [Jenner] and me growing up, good words to live by.

    Growing Up   Dad   Speech  
    Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
  • I fear I have not one good word to say this fair morning, though the sun shines so encouragingly on the distant hills and gentle river and the trees are in their festive hues. I am not festive, though contented. When obliged to give myself to the prose of life, as I am on this occasion of being established in a new home I like to do the thing, wholly and quite, - to weave my web for the day solely from the grey yarn.

    Life   Nature   Morning  
    Margaret Fuller, Robert N. Hudspeth (1984). “The letters of Margaret Fuller”, Cornell Univ Pr
  • A good word costs as little as a bad one, and is worth more.

    Benjamin Whichcote (1753). “Moral and religious aphorisms collected from the manuscript papers of the reverend and learned Doctor Whichcote; and published in 1703, by Dr. Jeffery. Now re-published, with very large additions, ... by Samuel Salter, ... To which are added, Eight letter”, p.168
  • It is not hard for any man who hath a Bible in his hand to borrow good words and holy sayings in abundance; but to make them his own is a work of grace only from above.

    Bible   Men   Hands  
    John Milton (1835). “Prose Works”, p.325
  • If a good word already exists, there is no need to invent something painful.

  • The word 'no' is a very good word in a singer's repertoire.

    "Portrait of the artist: Kiri Te Kanawa". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. August 17, 2009.
  • Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

    1847; quoted by propagandist and language maven William Safire, New York Times Magazine, 13 December 1998.
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