Thought for the Day

"But words are things, and a small drop of ink,
Falling, like dew, upon a thought produces
That which makes thousands, perhaps millions think."

~ Lord Byron

Thought for the Day

"No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world."

~ Robin Williams

Thought for the Day

"Okay, writing advice. Best piece of writing advice I ever had was "Use words." This saved me a lot of trouble. I'd tried to write a short story using some cucumber slices and the skeletised spine of a vole, but the pacing was off, the plot dull, and the characters smelled weird."

~ Jonathan L. Howard

Thought for the Day

“So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.”

~ Dr Seuss

Thought for the Day

"Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all."

~ Winston Churchill

Thought for the Day

Thought for the Day

“I like good strong words that mean something.”

~ Louisa May Alcott 

Thought for the Day

“I know that words cannot move mountains, but they can move the multitude - we've proven that time and time again. People are more ready to fight and die for a word than for anything else. Words shape thought, stir feeling, and force action. They kill and revive, corrupt and cure.”

~ Dan Abnett, Horus Rising

Thought for the Day

"We use words to understand each other and even, sometimes, to find each other."

~ Jose Saramago, Portuguese writer and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature

Thought for the Day

"One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple."

~ Jack Kerouac

 

 

Five Words That Are Older Than You Think

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Text (the verb, as in 'to text')
Unfriend
Fanboy/Fangirl
Hip-hop

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