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Use the smallest word that does the job.

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E. B. White
American - Writer
July 11, 1899 - October 1, 1985

The word 'beauty' is as easy to use as the word 'degenerate.' Both come in handy when one does or does not agree with you

Charles Ives

Jazz is a word they use to sell our music, but to me that word does not exist.

John Coltrane

Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. Never use a long word where a short one will do. If it is possible to cut a word out always cut it out. Never use the passive voice where you can use the active. Never use a foreign phrase a scientific word or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous.

George Orwell

If I use the word romance, whether it's my wife or not, it does not mean sex. We can use the word sex when sex is there.

Bill Cosby

I only use a camera like I use a toothbrush. It does the job.

Don McCullin

I think screenwriter Steve Kloves does such a difficult job. And he does a bloody brilliant job, too. Transferring these Harry Potter books into films and making them coherent is one thing. But making them entertaining, as well, is quite another... He does a tremendous job, and he gets a lot of stick. And it's really unfair sometimes, and I challenge anyone else to do the job he does.

Matthew Lewis

This is not a phone business. This is the smallest video camera, it's the smallest computer, smallest TV.

Canning Fok

Nature has but one plan of operation, invariably the same in the smallest things as well as in the largest, and so often do we see the smallest masses selected for use in Nature, that even enormous ones are built up solely by fitting these together. Indeed, all Nature's efforts are devoted to uniting the smallest parts of our bodies in such a way that all things whatsoever, however diverse they may be, which coalesce in the structure of living things construct the parts by means of a sort of compendium.

Marcello Malpighi

You know, Obama says we can't use the word "terrorism." We can't use the word "foreign." We can't use any of these provocative words that insult them. "Islamic terrorism" is a phrase not permitted to be used by the US government.

Rush Limbaugh

I don't care what word you use: my job is to design clothing that is not out there for us.

Ashley Nell Tipton

This word "redemption," what is it about this word? Is it tangible? Do you know when it has happened? Is it necessary in a drama? Does it make a character boring? Does everyone agree on a character being "redeemed?" Or is it a word that is so subjective and polarizing and insignificant in modern television? It is a word that has been given, quite possibly, far too much significance, when it is truly ambiguous and meaningless in a drama. I have personally grown to loathe that word in literature.

Michael Muhney

. . . God is pleased to communicate himself to the simple and humble and to use the smallest and lowliest to make them great and exalted. In a word, it is He Himself who has called and approved them and even inspired their humble manner of living.

Vincent de Paul

Does a black person make them an African American? No. There are Hispanics that are very, very dark skinned so the word has lost its meaning, it's not a very concise or proper word to use even today and it wasn't then.

Pam Grier

If I had to use a single word to describe what is fundamentally wrong with government today, I would use the word fraud.

Robert Higgs

I don't use the word 'pressure.' I use the word 'expectation.' I have very high expectations of myself. It starts with me.

Daunte Culpepper

I use the word totally too much. I need to change it up and use a word that is different but has the same meaning. Mitch do you like submarine sandwiches? All-encompassingly.

Mitch Hedberg

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