Pittsburghese

Let thy words be few. - Ecclesiastes 5:2

Your face is a household word. - Archie Bunker

Wine is my favorite 4 letter word. - Unknown

Men of few words are the best men. - William Shakespeare

Language is a virus from outer space. - William S Burroughs

One picture is worth a thousand words. - Fred Barnard

A riot is the language of the unheard. - Martin Luther King, Jr.

When ideas fail, words come in very handy. - Goethe

Silence often gives impressions that words can not. - Unknown

If words were leaves, would you prefer fall or spring? - Jarod Kintz

Preach the gospel at all times. If necessary, use words. - St. Francis of Assisi

We need a president who's fluent in at least one language. - Buck Henry

Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory. - Norman Vincent Peale

I respect a man who knows how to spell a word more than one way. - Mark Twain

Democracy! Bah! When I hear that word I reach for my feather Boa. - Allen Ginsberg

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy. - Alfred Whitehead

The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so. - Gore Vidal

Silence is the language of God; it is also the language of the heart. - Sivananda

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. - Adlai E. Stevenson

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words. - William Shakespeare

Sometimes your best feelings are found in the words which you type and never send. - Unknown

The language of the law must not be foreign to the ears of those who are to obey it. - Learned hand

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. - Martin Luther King Jr.

The greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make. - Truman Capote

A bird that you set free may be caught again, but a word that escapes your lips will not return. - Jewish Proverb

Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought. - E Y Harburg

The word 'hackathon' was born out of 'marathon' for a reason. It's exhausting. - Neil Blumenthal

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours. - Eric Idle

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy. - Ralph Ellison

Thanksgiving is the language of heaven, and we had better start to learn it if we are not to be mere dumb aliens there. - AJ Gossip

As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them. - John F Kennedy

There are three words I like to repeat to myself: glass half full. Just to remind myself to be grateful for everything I have. - Goldie Hawn

If you carefully consider what you want to be said of you in the funeral experience, you will find your definition of success. - Stephen Covey

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. - Nelson Mandela

Who ever thought up the word "Mammogram?" Every time I hear it, I think I'm supposed to put my breast in an envelope and send it to someone. - Jan King

In a packed programme tonight, I shall be having a word with a man who goes in for meditation, because he thinks it's better than sitting around doing nothing. - Ronnie Corbett

If storytelling is important, then your narrative ability or your ability to put into words or use what someone else has put into words effectively, is important too. - Howard Gardner

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. - Leo Buscaglia

Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head. - Jasper Forde

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts. - Ernest Hemingway