Josh Homme Quotes

Language has historically stood as a barrier for some voters seeking to participate in the electoral process.

I have learnt to appreciate the clarity of English language.

We should constantly use the most common, little, easy words which our language affords.

Everything that can be thought at all can be thought clearly. Everything that can be said can be said clearly. Ludwig Wittgenstein

I bring reason to your ears, and, in language as plain as ABC, hold up truth to your eyes.

Uncommon things must be said in common words.

Easy writing makes hard reading.

I've always been a fan of plain writing. I hate metaphor-laden, heavily larded, lyrical writing.

Don't use big words. They mean so little.

A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life.

Take it from me - every vote counts. In our Democracy, every vote has power. And never forget - that power is yours. Don't let anyone take it away or talk you into throwing it away. And let's make sure that this time every vote is counted.

I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.

Here's my point. I don't want you to be in a position years from now where you welcome Hillary Clinton and say actually you did win. It just wasn't close enough to make sure that all the votes were counted or whatever. Elections have consequences. Your vote counts. Your vote has consequences.

Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.

When any man expresses doubt to me as to the use that I or any other woman might make of the ballot if we had it, my answer is, What is that to you? If you have for years defrauded me of my rightful inheritance, and then, as a stroke of policy, of from late conviction, concluded to restore to me my own domain, must I ask you whether I may make of it a garden of flowers, or a field of wheat, or a pasture for kine?

It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code. Most of these jokers don't even want to use language you and I know or can learn . . . they would rather sneer at us and be smug, because we 'fail' to see what they are driving at. If indeed they are driving at anything--obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence.

Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it.

Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail. A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.

If I am ever obscure in my expressions, do not fancy that therefore I am deep. If I were really deep, all the world would understand, though they might not appreciate. The perfectly popular style is the perfectly scientific one. To me an obscurity is a reason for suspecting a fallacy.

The best style of writing, as well as the most forcible, is the plainest.

If everybody voted, then it would completely change the political map in this country.

In reality, there is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of some Diehard's vote.

We have a language that is full of ambiguities; we have a way of expressing ourselves that is often complex and elusive, poetic and modulated; all our thoughts can be rendered with absolute clarity if we bother to put the right dots and squiggles between the words in the right places. Proper punctuation is both the sign and the cause of clear thinking. If it goes, the degree of intellectual impoverishment we face is unimaginable.

Never use a long word where a short one will do.

Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.