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‘The first thing a hero must conquer is his fear, and when it comes to fightin’, the Nac Mac Feegle don’t know the meanin’ of the word.’
‘Aye, true enough,’ Rob grunted. ‘We dinnae ken the meanin’ o’ thousands o’ words.’ (W)
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'He choked to death on a concubine.'
There was no sound but the hiss of snow in the fire and a number of people thinking fast. 'I think you mean cucumber,' said the bard. 'That's right, cucumber,' said Boy Willie. 'I've never been good at them long words.' 'Very important difference in a salad situation,' said Cohen. (LH) There is no such word as 'moonlight' but it would be nice if there was. (WFM)
'Fear' was only one of thousands of words the pictsies probably didn't know the meaning of. (WFM)
'I understood every word in that sentence, but not the sentence itself.' (CJ)
The architecture was what is known professionally as 'vernacular', a word used in another field to mean 'swearing' and this was quite appropriate. (LC)
... to my mind things are only suggestive if you're open to suggestion. (NOC)
And, if they're said with the right passion and the gods are feeling bored, sometimes the universe will reform itself around words like that. Words have always had the power to change the world. (SM)
There are fewer metaphors around than people think. (SG)
He had the kind of subjects who used the words ‘find out’ when they meant ‘ascertain’. Damnation was too good for them. (E)
She had got ‘diuerse’ out of the Almanack, which she read every night. It was always predicting ‘diuerse plagues’ and ‘diurse ill-fortune’. Granny wasn’t entirely sure what it meant but it was a damn good word all the same. (ER)
Rincewind opened his mouth to reply but felt the words huddle together in his throat, reluctant to emerge into a world that was rapidly going mad. (COM)
Nelson had an irrational dislike of 'petabytes'', the recognised term for a particular, and particularly large, wodge of data. Anything that sounded like a kitten's gentle nip just didn't have the moxie to do the job asked of it. 'Godzillabytes', on the other hand, shouted to the world that it was dealing with something very, very big ... and possibly dangerous. (LW)
‘Extinct. Now there’s a terrible word if you like. A word beyond death, because extinction means your children are dead too, and your grandchildren and their children will never even be born.’ (LE)
'A spill word is a word that somebody almost says, but doesn't.' (ISWM)
'Cunning: artful, sly, deceptive, shrewd, astute, cute, on the ball and, indeed, arch. A word for any praise and every prejudice. Cunning… is a cunning word.' (UA)
'As a wizard I must tell you that words have power'.
'As a politician I must tell you I already know'. (UA) 'Mrs. Tilly, I think you wrote a lovely well-spelled and grammatical letter to us suggesting that everyone under the age of eighteen should be flogged once a week to stop them being so noisy?’
‘Once a day, Mr de Worde,’ said Mrs. Tilly. ‘That’ll teach ‘em to go around being young!' (TT) Sometimes words need music too. Sometimes the descriptions are not enough; books should be written with soundtracks, like films. (Dig)
'People are a bit like machines,’ he added solemnly, while his face went redder, ‘and words like please and thank you are just like grease. They make them work better.' (Dig)
'Of course I can read it,’ he said. ‘I know what every word means.’
‘Well, then?’ said Masklin. Gurder looked embarrassed. ‘It’s what every sentence means that's giving me trouble,’ he said. (Dig) 'Words are important. And when there is a critical mass of them, they change the nature of the universe.' (GP)
every undelivered message is a piece of space-time that lacks another end, a little bundle of effort and emotion floating freely. (GP)
The pen might not be mightier than the sword, but maybe the printing press was heavier than the siege weapon. Just a few words can change everything ... (MR)
'You’re at home with the writin’ and readin’,’ grumbled Jackrum. ‘You can’t trust the people who do that stuff. They mess around with the world, and it turns out everything you know is wrong.' (MR)
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