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  • Anger is preverbal, so, by the time you're using words to express an angry feeling, you're already imposing loads of structure on that primal experience.

    Source: pitchfork.com
  • Bobby made references to me a few times on Show Me The Money. He seemed to enjoy using words like 'sangnamja (T/N: true man, also the title for 'Boy in Luv') and 'leading a fast life' (T/N: pronounced as Bangtang). Saying "Like a true man, I lead a fast life" isn't a common mix of words, right? I thought that it wasn't just a coincidence.

    Boys   Men   Titles  
    Source: kpopkfans.blogspot.com
  • So what's the point of using words nobody else knows or can say comfortably? I just don't understand that.

    Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.22, Simon and Schuster
  • So you want another story?" Uhh... no. We would like to know what really happened." Doesn't the telling of something always become a story?" Uhh... perhaps in English. In Japanese a story would have an element of invention in it. We don't want any invention. We want the 'straight facts,' as you say in English." Isn't telling about something--using words, English or Japanese--already something of an invention? Isn't just looking upon this world already something of an invention?

    Yann Martel (2009). “Life of Pi”, p.335, Vintage Canada
  • I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply.

  • We have rapidly increasing technology, which is making life very good for people who are good at using words, and not so good for people who are not good at using words.

    Source: www.pbs.org
  • Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

  • A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls. Story-tellers and poets spend their lives learning that skill and art of using words well. And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper.

    Art   Writing   Mean  
    "A Few Words to a Young Writer" by Ursula K. Le Guin, www.ursulakleguin.com. 2008.
  • Tell the readers a story! Because without a story, you are merely using words to prove you can string them together in logical sentences.

  • Like most people, I've always felt using words like 'best' when applied to art is a fun way for critics to stay busy at the end of the year, and I guess a good way to help get ratings for awards shows, which is fine.

    Art   Fun   Awards  
    "The Best Movie of the Year" by Steven Van Zandt, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 16, 2012.
  • Knowing how to use your voice so it makes sense to your dog, using words in a way your dog can understand, correcting him without creating fear, praising him properly, and doing it all at the proper time are critical skills to develop if your dog is to learn from you.

    Dog   Skills   Voice  
  • I believe in using words, not fists.

  • Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef.

    Cutting   Magic   Beef  
  • I could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist's trade.Once you had started using words like flavicomous or acroamatic, because you liked the sound of them, you were lost.

  • I object to you using words like squander and pork. What is pork in one part of the country is an essential project in another part.

  • Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.

    FaceBook post by Yehuda Berg from Sep 15, 2010
  • Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, then you're already on the way to poetry. It's about using words in very precise ways and using gesture.

  • However, as words become particularized, and as men begin - in however small a way - to use them in personal, arbitrary ways, so their transformation into art begins. It was words of this kind that, descending on me like a swarm of winged insects, seized on my individuality and sought to shut me up within it. Nevertheless, despite the enemy's depredations upon my person, I turned their universality - at once a weapon and a weakness - back on them, and to some extent succeeded in using words to universalize to my own individuality.

    Art   Men   Individuality  
  • So our task as stewards of the word begins and ends in love. Loving language means cherishing it for its beauty, precision, power to enhance understanding, power to name, power to heal. And it means using words as instruments of love.

    Marilyn Chandler McEntyre (2009). “Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies”, p.23, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
  • A way of using words to say things which could not possibly be said in any other way, things which in a sense do not exist till they are born … in poetry.

    Way   Using Words   Born  
  • Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.

    In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 1, p. 471 (6 August 1763, when Boswell said it would be 'terrible' if Johnson should not be able to return speedily from Harwich)
  • Aviation is poetry ... It's the finest kind of moving around, you know, just as poetry is the finest way of using words.

    Moving   Flying   Way  
    Jessie Redmon Fauset (2013). “Comedy: American Style”, p.108, Courier Corporation
  • As parents, we can do a great deal to further this goal by helping our children develop alternative ways of knowing the world verbally/analytically and visually/spatially. During the crucial early years, parents can help to shape a child's life in such a way that words do not completely mask other kinds of reality. My most urgent suggestions to parents are concerned with the use of words, or rather, not using words.

    "The New Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain". Book by Betty Edwards, 1979.
  • Find the god in your own heart and you will understand by direct intuition what all the great teachers, real mystics, true philosophers and inspired people have been trying to tell you by the tortuous method of using words.

    Teacher   Real   Heart  
  • For me personally, I don't pray using words - it is just with my intent. Why do I need to pray with "words," to something external, when I know what I want?

    Source: www.awaken.com
  • I call her Wild Woman, for those very words, wild and woman, create llamar o tocar a la puerta, the fairy-tale knock at the door of the deep feminine psyche. Llamar o tocar a la puerta means literally to play upon the instrument of the name in order to open a door. It means using words that summon up the opening of a passageway. No matter by which culture a woman is influenced, she understands the words wild and woman, intuitively.

    Mean   Doors   Order  
  • Sometimes I use words to throw you from once scene to the other, and sometimes I use words to pull you from one scene to the other. You might not be aware of it, but I may have overlapping words one way or the other. So, I'm actually using words.

    Use   May   Might  
    Source: collider.com
  • It is really hard to completely re-learn how to express yourself without using words. When you take away speech, you have to re-invent the way you express yourself. You have to exaggerate your body language and your facial expressions.

  • He that uses many words for explaining any subject, doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink.

  • The political writer, then, is the ultimate optimist, believing people are capable of change and using words as one way to try and penetrate the privatism of our lives.

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