High Frequency Words

Famous quotes containing the words high, frequency and/or words:

    In rhetoric, this art of omission is a chief secret of power, and, in general, it is proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    The frequency of personal questions grows in direct proportion to your increasing girth. . . . No one would ask a man such a personally invasive question as “Is your wife having natural childbirth or is she planning to be knocked out?” But someone might ask that of you. No matter how much you wish for privacy, your pregnancy is a public event to which everyone feels invited.
    Jean Marzollo (20th century)

    Some words live in my throat
    breeding like adders. Others know sun
    seeking like gypsies over my tongue
    to explode through my lips
    Audre Lorde (b. 1934)