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Quotes about words
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It is with a word as with an arrow -- once let it loose and it does not return. (Abbey Lynn)
Please God, make my words today sweet and tender, for tomorrow I may have to eat them. (Abbey Lynn)
Political correctness is simply a speed bump in the traffic of truth, free thought and speech. (Abbey Lynn)
The 500 most commonly used words have an average of 28 meanings each. (Abbey Lynn)
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The supply of words in the world market is plentiful but the demand is falling. Let deeds follow words now. (Abbey Lynn)
Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground. (Abbey Lynn)
Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination. (Abbey Lynn)
A new word is like a fresh seed sewn on the ground of the discussion. (Abbey Lynn)
The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping. (Abbey Lynn)
If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know? (Abbey Lynn)
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses. (Abbey Lynn)
Never use a preposition to end a sentence with. (Abbey Lynn)
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of. (Abbey Lynn)
I know Kung Fu, Karate, and 47 other dangerous words. (Abbey Lynn)
I'm shy, paranoid, whatever word you want to use. I hate fame. I've done everything I can to avoid it. (Abbey Lynn)
For me, ambition has become a dirty word. I prefer hunger. To be hungry-great. To have hopes, dreams-great. (Abbey Lynn)
But words-words are not enough! (Abbey Lynn)
What does that mean, this word entertainer? Entertain what? Who? (Abbey Lynn)
That word, fan, has always kind of bothered me. (Abbey Lynn)
The world is as it should be. (Abbey Lynn)
“There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.” (Abbey Lynn)
“Words build bridges into unexplored regions.” (Abbey Lynn)
Words are not even within me. They're not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling that I had. (Abbey Lynn)
“I'm the kind of person to wait until I've gained ten pounds to start exercising.” (Abbey Lynn)
“There isn't much I have to say, that I wouldn't rather just shut up and do.” (Abbey Lynn)
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