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When I need to be precise about a plant, I use its Latin name, even if my nongardening friends sometimes look at me a little funny for using big words in a dead language - or in the kind of horticultural Esperanto that botanical names make up. -- Allen Lacy
Hermione uses all these big long tongue twister words. I don't know what she's going on about half the time! -- Emma Watson
A big practice in chaos magic is the use of sigils, which are abstract words or symbols you create and embed with your wishes. -- Sophia Amoruso
It definitely sharpened my interest in language, the way people used language, slang words, speech patterns. There's a big advantage to being the outsider. -- Amy Heckerling
Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite. -- C. S. Lewis
Of course there are big differences in length and character and vocabulary, but each level has its particular pleasures when it comes to the words one can use and the way one uses them. -- Margaret Mahy
I've been really upset sometimes when I've been misquoted. And it's the one thing they use in big print. Or it's taken out of context. Thoughts are fluid and words are sticky. That's the thing. -- Daphne Guinness
One time I happened to use the word 'denigrate' onstage, and it didn't get any reaction. So as I continued my act, the left side of my brain was fast-forwarding to see if I had any other big words coming up. -- Bob Newhart
My grandmother would give me a beautiful book each year. I especially loved the Beatrix Potter books. They were very detailed. And I promised myself that was what I'd do. I also loved the big words she used. I was excited because I knew what they meant from the context. I put a few big words in for just that reason. -- Jan Brett
Today's comics use four-letter words as a shortcut to thinking. They're shooting for that big laugh and it becomes a panic thing, using four-letter words to shock people. -- Red Skelton

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