Quotes about Word choice

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Whether the vessel is a legal document or a rap song, language is often chosen ot exclude. To use a scholarly phrase, "d — Roy Peter Clark
Offstage, I couldn't put things into words, and that was the one thing I'd always been able to rely on. Putting my feeli — Carrie Fisher, Shockaholic
Lincoln bought a German language newspaper. — Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion
Vocabulary for aggravation is large. Vocabulary for transcendence is elusive. — Jennifer Senior, All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenthood
The letter is too belligerent. If I were you, I would state the facts as they were, without the pepper and salt. Abraham — Harold Holzer, Lincoln and the Power of the Press: The War for Public Opinion
His only weakness was the habit of prophesying war within the next fortnight. George Bernard Shaw — Barbara W. Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914
CS Lewis's humor supported his exposition but never dominated or diminished it. — Greg Cootsona
He was telling an interesting anecdote full of exciting words like "encyclopedia" and "rhododendron". — A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
One does not hold a conversation with him. One holds a symposium. – Elizabeth Drew — Rick Perlstein, The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan
Human understanding more easily invents new things than new words. — Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America