2182 Words Quotes for You to Enjoy

Mark my words, Michael Van Gerwen will knock Phil Taylor off his perch one day and be the best darts player on the planet. Eric Bristow

Best Day Words Will Mark One Day Van Darts Knock His Off Michael Planet Taylor Player Phil

It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words. Eric Hoffer

Eyes Words Reflection Example Imitate Others Ourselves Echo Much

I'm just trying to write a good story, strictly from imagination. People just think it's random, they don't see the rewriting, phrasing of characters, choosing the words, bringing the world to light in which the characters live in. That creates an illusion that this is real. Eric Jerome Dickey

Good People Words World Light Illusion Random Live Think Imagination Strictly Characters See Good Story Write Real Trying Just Rewriting Story Which Creates Choosing Bringing

The summer of 1991, I took $2,000 of my savings and a desktop program, and I asked my friends to write 800 words about something they cared about. I got eight or nine articles and put them together. It was no frills, black and white, no graphics. I printed them out and just dumped piles around D.C. Eric Liu

Together Words Black Black And White White Savings Took Nine Summer Out About Something Write Put Printed Around Piles Got Dumped Friends Articles Just Eight Them Asked Graphics Cared Program Desktop

When are programmers happy? They're happy when they're not underutilized - when they're not bored - and also when they're not overburdened with inappropriate specifications or meaningless bureaucracies. In other words, programmers are happiest when they're working efficiently. This is a general preference in creative work. Eric S. Raymond

Work Creative Happy Words Other Bored General Also Efficiently In Other Words Happiest Preference Inappropriate Meaningless Working Creative Work Programmers

Words take on many different meanings. Erin McKean

Words Take Different Meanings Many

I think we would all like to believe that every new event demands a new word. But we're environmentally conscious with our words. We recycle words we've got. Erin McKean

Words Word Believe Every Think Our Would Recycle Demands New Environmentally Like Got New Word Event Conscious

Writers who hedge their use of unfamiliar, infrequent, or informal words with 'I know that's not a real word,' hoping to distance themselves from criticism, run the risk of creating doubt where perhaps none would have naturally arisen. Erin McKean

Words Word Criticism Doubt Distance Run Would Hoping Risk Writers Arisen Perhaps Know None Real Unfamiliar Where Informal Hedge Themselves Creating Use Naturally Who

Objections to verbification in English tend to be motivated by personal taste, not clarity. Verbed words are usually easily understood. When a word like 'friend' is declared not a verb, the problem isn't that it's confusing; it's that the protester finds it deeply annoying. Erin McKean

Problem Words Word Easily Clarity Finds Objections Tend Like Annoying Verb Understood Motivated Friend Personal Taste Confusing English Deeply

All our words from loose using have lost their edge. Ernest Hemingway

Words Edge Lost Our Loose Using

But it will be said that the husband provides for the wife, or in other words, he feeds, clothes and shelters her! I wish I had the power to make every one before me fully realize the degradation contained in that idea. Ernestine Rose

Me Words Wife Will Husband Power Wish Before Clothes Every Other Degradation Had He Feeds Idea Contained Make Said Shelters Provides In Other Words Realize Fully Her

I don't want to say too many words about the magic of the Cube, because it's basically a mystery. It's like the Mona Lisa smile. It's both complex and very simple at the same time. And, well, people like it. Even today. Erno Rubik

Today Smile Time People Words Simple Too Say Complex Magic About Both Mystery Like Well Because Cube Very Same Same Time Want Many Even Mona Basically

I grew up with a love of words. Essie Davis

Love Words Up Grew

You have to look at the value of different kinds of words. Adjectives weaken, and adverbs come even farther down the line. Verbs are strong; verbs and nouns. Ethan Canin

You Words Strong Value Different Kinds Down Weaken Adjectives Kinds Come Look Verbs Line Different Noun Farther Even

The only thing you have to know are your words. Eva Gabor

You Words Only Know The Only Thing Your Thing

Those are the two best words in English, 'Bidding' and 'war'. Evan Daugherty

War Best Words Those Bidding English Two

I wouldn't say I see things visually first, but what I do think is important, for a lot of screenwriters, is to not just think about the words on the page, but also the world as a whole and the vibe of the movie, rather than a sequence of scenes written on the page. Evan Daugherty

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