Gary Lineker Quotes

Thou weigh'st thy words before thou givest them breath.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.

I have had periods when I've overused a word, 'candent' being one example, but I'm trying not to do that any more.

Of course on air I use occasional hyperbole to tell a story.

I think writers are prone to hyperbole sometimes.

I live in a constant state of hyperbole.

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

We need to become more acutely conscious that words matter. None of us would deny that ideas and opinions matter, but we can sometimes be careless about how we express them. The words we choose to advance an idea, opinion, or point of view have a huge impact on how people react and respond to that view. When we use hyperbole, we increase the chances of being misunderstood and of promoting equally exaggerated counter-reactions, especially when people are reacting almost instantaneously.

I'm prone to hyperbole.

There are some things people avoid saying in interviews because they sound pompous or sentimental or too mystical.

Hyperbole is not easily dealt with. Usually, it collapses under its own weight.

I think I have to be aware of how much power words can have. And it makes me consider everything that I say before I say it, because you can really help a lot of people, or you can really, really mess things up.

Choose your words meticulously and then let them rumble up from some deep furnace of conviction.

You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.

You could smell my ass from mars.

A single overstatement, wherever or however it occurs, diminishes the whole, and a carefree superlative has the power to destroy, for the reader, the object of the writer's enthusiasm.

I'm happier than a tornado in a trailer park.

Sometimes you tell the truth like you're pulling taffy.

All panegyrics are mingled with an infusion of poppy.

I have been cautioned to talk but be careful not to say anything. I do not consider this a difficult task.

Be gentle with your words - you can't take them back.

And all those exclamation marks, you notice? Five? A sure sign of someone who wears his underpants on his head.

I put a new engine in my car, but forgot to take the old one out. Now my car goes 500 miles per hour. The harmonica sounds amazing.

I hospitalized a rock, killed a brick...I'm so bad I make medicine sick!