Verbal Expressions Quotes

Just as the humble, unassuming, assenting 'O.K.' has deposed the more affirmative 'Yes,' so the little cringe and hesitation and approximation of 'like' are a help to young people who are struggling to negotiate the shoals and rapids of ethnic identity, the street, and general correctness.

So perhaps the correct conclusion is that Green was less attuned to how people sound when they speak - the actual words and expressions they employ - than to what they mean. This notion of dialogue as a pure expression of character that...transcends the specifics of time and place may be partly why the conversations in the works of writers such as Austen and Bronte often sound fresh and astonishingly contemporary.

I think the most overused words in our vocabulary in the South are black and white.

Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages.

Learn the value of a man's words and expressions, and you know him. Each man has a measure of his own for everything; this he offers you inadvertently in his words. He who has a superlative for everything wants a measure for the great or small.

The last thing abandoned by a party is its phraseology.

For 16 years I spoke in trial metaphors, and perhaps I need to get out of that habit.

And generally, when people say good night, they keep their tongues to themselves.

Proverbs, words, and grammar inflections convey the public sense with more purity and precision, than the wisest individual.