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Your Quotes for 18 January 2006 - Words

Peter Mark Roget was born at London on this day in 1779. Educated at Edinburgh University in math and medicine, he used his education well. He was the first to demonstrate the persistence of human vision, in which a series of still pictures shown in sequence appears to be motion, the concept that allowed motion pictures and television. He was one of the founders of the Royal Society of Medicine and a couple of other organizations. He invented the slide rule, although few seem to remember the object and fewer that Roget came up with it. Our quotes today are on Words, because what we all associate with Roget is his unique arrangement of words called the thesaurus.

It is not so much consequence what you say, as how you say it. Memorable sentences are memorable, on account of some single irradiating word.
     - Alexander Smith, 1830 - 1867

Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in a few words.
     - Ecclesiasticus

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.
     - Ernest Hemingway, 1899 - 1961

Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words?
     - Marcel Marceau

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
     - Mark Twain, 1835 - 1910

The word 'good' has many meanings. For instance, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of 500 yards, I would call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.
     - Gilbert Keith Chesterton, 1874 - 1936

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