Letter Word

Famous quotes containing the words letter and/or word:

“Woe to the makers of literal translations, who by rendering every word weaken the meaning! It is indeed by so doing that we can say the letter kills and the spirit gives life.”
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)

“The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)