Avoid sarcasm. Don't insist on the last word.

Hear only the things you should hear - be deaf to others.

Review your work. You will find, if you are honest, that 90% of the trouble is traceable to loafing.

Never charge a player and, above all, no pointing your finger or yelling.

Keep all your personalities out of your work. Forget and forgive.

I'd hate this to get out but I really like opera.

Avoid sarcasm. Don't insist on the last word.

Keep your temper. A decision made in anger is never sound.

Keep your eye on the ball.

Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth.

We are suffering from too much sarcasm.

In my opinion, I think sarcasm and humor in a song, without turning it into a novelty song, is really charming.

Sarcasm is a Manchester trait.

Avoid sarcasm. Don't insist on the last word.

I grew up in an environment of jokes and sarcasm and puns. I talk that way, so I write that way.

This music won't do. There's not enough sarcasm in it.

I'd like to do more stuff with less sarcasm.

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.

As a former writer for the 'National Lampoon,' I've probably contributed to the sea of sarcasm in which we live.

I do sarcasm really poorly.

I love the French for their sarcasm, their irony. I love them for their bad moods.

I was aware of a lot of my friends being into things I wasn't into. Like sarcasm. It had never been a part of my family - they still don't use sarcasm.

I'm so sick of sarcasm and irony, I could kill! Sincerely, the real root of things is love and sacrifice.

My brothers are both 6 ft. 5 in., and if you have younger brothers who are bigger than you then you have to learn the ancient martial art of sarcasm.

My natural-born sarcasm, when it's unimpeded, can be a bit overbearing at times and I'm the first to admit that.

Sarcasm doesn't read sarcastic in print.

Sarcasm doesn't translate in print at all.

Sarcasm is lost in print.

Shareholder meetings are not usually the occasion for utter candor - or for that matter, arch sarcasm - by chief executives.

Some sarcasm is best told simply.

Somebody says, 'Do a Tom Bodett, a folksy kind of thing,' and it sounds like something out of 'Hee Haw,' very insulting. They turn wry humor into disparaging sarcasm, and you get what amounts to insulting advertising.

The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely stating an alternative point of view to the orthodoxy, can be interpreted as insult.

The key to humor is often self-loathing or sarcasm. In a sense, that's how self-loathing is made palatable.

We're not big on irony in Jamaica, sarcasm and double-talk. We tend to say things plainly, sometimes to the point of boredom.

You had to learn at a certain age what sarcasm is, you know?

I never understood a word John Cassavetes said. And I think he did that deliberately.

In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by the context.

I don't know of many evangelicals who want to deny gay couples their legal rights. However, most of us don't want to call it marriage, because we think that word has religious connotations, and we're not ready to see it used in ways that offend us.

I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens.

It seems inevitable that the magic of the written word will fade.

The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.

In a word, if any kind of slavery can be vindicated by the Holy Scriptures, we are already sure our making and holding the Negroes our slaves, as we do, cannot be vindicated by any thing we can find there, but is condemned by the whole of divine revelation.

It is a common temptation of Satan to make us give up the reading of the Word and prayer when our enjoyment is gone; as if it were of no use to read the Scriptures when we do not enjoy them, and as if it were no use to pray when we have no spirit of prayer.

I don't stare at a sheet of paper and try to think of a good word to use. I try to see where the story should go.

But the way people commonly use the word nowadays it means something all of whose parts are mutually interdependent - not only for their mutual action, but for their meaning and for their existence.

And that's how I start myself. I usually go back a couple of pages, maybe to the beginning of the chapter, and I start reading. And as I'm reading, I'm tweaking - putting in a different word, changing the syntax, putting that clause over there, you know that sort of thing.

A palindrome is a word or pattern that instead of developing in different directions it folds in on itself so that the beginning and end mirror each other, that they are the same.