Jennifer Murphy > Quotes

“without truth behind them, words are just a bunch of letters.”
― Jennifer Murphy, I Love You More

“A wise friend of mine, my teacher and mentor at the police academy in Detroit where I got my training, once said that there are three worlds: the world we know, the world we are yet to know, and the world we don’t even know exists. He said a good cop is always looking for that third world.”
― Jennifer Murphy, I Love You More

“Now, of course I’d known the general meaning of the word secret before I looked it up that day, but as I’ve come to understand, none of us really knows the entire meaning of a word because of the very fact that so many words are overused and misused.”
― Jennifer Murphy, I Love You More

“New words got into dictionaries based on usage, which raised another question. Who made up those new words? Answer: a neologist. More information: Neologism wasn’t an official job; anyone could be a neologist. All you had to do was make up a word and get enough people to start using it so it made its way into books, magazines, and periodicals for dictionary editors to discover. Right”
― Jennifer Murphy, I Love You More

“What I think he meant is that great art is born from skillful lying, and something else, something much more profound, that lying is okay as long as its end goal is altruistic.”
― Jennifer Murphy, I Love You More

“Words mean what they mean, and anyone who knowingly misrepresents their meanings obviously has no regard for truth or language.”
― Jennifer Murphy, I Love You More

“In my mind there’s a difference between a rumor and a lie: intent. People tell rumors to hurt someone else. People tell lies to save themselves. Or someone they love.”
― Jennifer Murphy, I Love You More