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«Four short words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals above the crowd: a little bit more. They did all that was expected of them and a little bit more.»
Author: A. Lou Vickery
| Keywords:
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«Elderly gentlemen, gentle in all respects, kind to animals, beloved by children, and fond of music, are found in lonely corners of the downs, hacking at sandpits or tussocks of grass, and muttering in a blind, ungovernable fury elaborate maledictions which could not be extracted from them by robbery or murder. Men who would face torture without a word become blasphemous at the short fourteenth. It is clear that the game of golf may well be included in that category of intolerable provocations which may legally excuse or mitigate behavior not otherwise excusable.»
Author: A. P. Herbert
| Keywords:
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«The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.»
Author: A. W. Tozer
| Keywords:
exclusion, favorite, less than, must not, obeyed, passages, perfection, religiously, route, routed, routes, select, Selecting, selects, shortest, Short words, The Word, understood, Word of God
«I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces.»
Author: Harold Ross
(Writer)
| About:
Writing
| Keywords:
Lardner, phrases, piece of paper, piece of writing, Ring Lardner, separated, short stories, short story, Short words, spaces, The short story, widely
«I think ''taste'' is a social concept and not an artistic one. I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another's brain in silence and intimacy, he should be as honest and explicit as we are with ourselves.»
Author: John Updike
| Keywords:
artistic, concept, explicit, Good taste, intimacy, living room, polite, Short words, Too Short
«Kind words are short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless»
Author: Mother Teresa of Calcutta
(Founder, Missionary)
| Keywords:
come short, easy, echoed, echoes, echoing, endless, for short, kind, short, shorts, short I, Short words, speak, their, truly, words
«I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English - it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in. When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them - then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are wide apart. An adjective habit, or a wordy, diffuse, flowery habit, once fastened upon a person, is as hard to get»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
adjective, adjectives, close together, creep, creep in, diffuse, diffused, diffuses, diffusing, fastened, flowery, fluff, fluffed, Modern English, plain language, Plain Words, sentences, Short words, simple language, stick to, stick together, verbosity, weaken, wordy
«Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.»
Author: Mother Teresa of Calcutta
(Founder, Missionary)
| About:
Communication,
Words
| Keywords:
echoed, echoes, echoing, endless, short, Short words
«Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
best of all, broadly, broadly speaking, Short words
«Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.»
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