Henry Cavill Quotes

'Irony' is such an over-used word.

My favorite phrase, that a friend of mine who worked on the Potter films and was a lot older than me would use in front of me, and I picked up from him many great phrases - the English have a lot of great idioms for sweating. I don't know why that is. But that's what we do. I feel like it's particularly our country; probably everywhere has a lot of idioms for sweating. He always said, "I'm sweating like a glassblower's asshole," which I always found an incredibly strange and yet vivid image.

I hate women because they have brought into the currency of our language such expressions as "all righty" and "yes indeedy" and hundreds of others.

about clichés. Avoid them like the plague.

I'm cautious about a lot of words.

Choose each word as a precision tool. Consider how it sounds, not how it reads.

I have a phrase I say: 'What the damn?' It's my favorite. It just came to me one day.

I work a lot on words, so if I hear a word or see a word or a phrase or a sentence that someone says to me it just immediately sparks a concept.

Poems are a form of music, and language just happens to be our instrument - language and breath.

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.

I have this little thing that people call Keegan-ese, where I don't speak English words at all. I just say stuff like, "You gotta toish the doish and you gotta maloish the hoish."

You can say 'Thanks,' and you can say 'Thanks a Million' - but any number in between?

Let argument bear no unmusical sound.

If it sounds good as you say it, likely as not it'll sound good when an actor's saying it.

No matter which word it is, when I pronounce repeatedly, it ends up sounding utterly ridiculous and meaningless to me.

Poetry finds its perilous equilibrium somewhere between music and speech.

By using stale metaphors, similes and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only for your reader but for yourself.

Language transcends us and yet we speak.

All I can do is turn a phrase until it catches the light.

I love and hate this place because it is full of words.

At the beginning there was the Word; at the end just the Cliche.

Clichés can be quite fun. That's how they got to be clichés.

The aphorism is a slippery plaything.

To idealize: all writing is a campaign against cliché. Not just clichés of the pen but clichés of the mind and clichés of the heart.