Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes

The words of the world want to make sentences.

The rhetoric is the key to the character. It's the verbal music of the piece.

You can tell the nature of the man by the words he chooses.

Those things for which we find words, are things we have already overcome.

Language is our way of communicating what we want and who we are. By using bad language, we diminish the divine spark within us that defines our humanity.

What a pity it is that there are so many words! Whenever one wants to say anything, three or four ways of saying it run into one's head together and one can't tell which to choose. It is as troublesome and puzzling as choosing a ribbon ... or a husband.

Words are so awesome. Words are containers for power. They carry either creative power or destructive power.

Nine times out of ten it is the coarse word that condemns an evil, and the refined word that excuses it.

According to my wife, my use of vocabulary is wide and varied.

Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language.

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

Words in a person's word stock are like paints on a palette. It helps to have just the right shade when you need it.

When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will stay split.

Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer. But why? Why do you choose one set of tools rather than another?

Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.

The vocabulary I use has to reflect the people I'm trying to communicate with.

If you can talk, you can write.

The only thing you have to know are your words.

I was born into a profession in which my love of words, chosen with care for their meaning and nuance, was extremely important, not only to me, but also to the people with whom I worked with.

No matter where we live, we have to use words. Once you've been looking into words, their stories, it's easy to fall in love with them.

I'm cautious about a lot of words.

I have a small vocabulary, which I move around fast.

I know a lot about words. I get paid to write stories, so I get to talk with people about the meaning behind words all day.

Language is very important to me.

All people in the world - who are not hermits or mutes - speak words. They speak different languages, but they speak words. They say, "How are you" or "I'm not feeling well" all over the world. These common words - these common elements that we have between us - the writer has to take some verbs and nouns and pronouns and adjectives and adverbs and arrange them in a way that sound fresh.