Quotes for All
People are piling into England, there’s lots of studio films happening there. When we budget our films we multiply it by 1.55 it’s much easier than when we multiply it by 2 so the cost looks a lot less in dollars, because everybody talks in dollars in terms of finance. And then the shift that … Read more
When you’re selling a product or service, you don’t have – it doesn’t have to be absolutely perfect, although I’ve provided language that is. When you’re a politician, one wrong word changes the entire – changes the meaning of something. Frank Luntz
There’s always a moment when you start to fall out of love, whether it’s with a person or an idea or a cause, even if it’s one you only narrate to yourself years after the event: a tiny thing, a wrong word, a false note, which means that things can never be quite the same … Read more
Like most writers, I look back on all of my finished works with utter regret, and the trouble with writing a series of novels is that you have to go back and read them, and make sure that you haven’t forgotten anything you’ve created, and then when you do that, you’re faced with your own … Read more
The problem with love and God, the two of them, is how to say anything about them that doesn’t annihilate them instantly with the wrong words, with untruth. . . . In this sense, love and God are equivalents. We feel both, but because we cannot speak clearly about them, we end up–wordless, inarticulate—by denying … Read more
Well, that’s certainly… adequate, I told him, burying my face in his chest. I knew immediately I’d picked the wrong word. Adequate? He took my hand, placed it on the part in question. It immediately began to stir. He moved my hand on it, and I obligingly circled it with my fingers. This is adequate? … Read more
Somehow when I express my voice, I feel that much more vulnerable. For instance, if I used the wrong word, or if I said something and somebody could take the word and misinterpret it. Carrie Ann Inaba
The wrong words are impossible when there are no words. Barbara Kingsolver
This is how moths speak to each other. They tell their love across the fields by scent. There is no mouth, the wrong words are impossible, either a mate is there or he is not, and if so the pair will find each other in the dark. Barbara Kingsolver
I feel like the reason I ended up becoming a playwright is because I never choose the right word. As a kid, my fantasy profession was to be a novelist. But the thing about writing prose – and maybe great prose writers don’t feel this way – but I always felt it was about choosing … Read more