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Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.
- Huxley, Julian S.
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Best Quotes about Words

1.
Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.
Connolly, Cyril

2.
My general theory since 1971 has been that the word is literally a virus, and that it has not been recognized as such because it has achieved a state of relatively stable symbiosis with its human host; that is to say, the word virus (the Other Half) has established itself so firmly as an accepted part of the human organism that it can now sneer at gangster viruses like smallpox and turn them in to the Pasteur Institute.
Burroughs, William S.

3.
Strong words are required for weak principles.
Horton, Doug

4.
Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo

5.
Words can have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbit and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used.
Lehman, David

6.
Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why --but the editorialists forget it --terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking.
Berger, John

7.
Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.
Joubert, Joseph

8.
Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbors, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.
Butler, Samuel

9.
Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable.
Daumal, Rene

10.
If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.
Ellison, Ralph

11.
All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
Hemingway, Ernest

12.
The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.
Tocqueville, Alexis De

13.
A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words... the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.
Twain, Mark

14.
I don't give a damn for man that can spell a word only one way.
Twain, Mark

15.
There can be no doubt that distrust of words is less harmful than unwarranted trust in them. Besides, to distrust words, and indict them for the horrors that might slumber unobtrusively within them --isn't this, after all, the true vocation of the intellectual?
Havel, Vaclav

16.
One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called weasel words. When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a weasel word after another there is nothing left of the other.
Roosevelt, Theodore

17.
I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.
Churchill, Winston

18.
When I look at you, the wheels of time stand still vs. Your face could stop a clock

19.
If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?
Wright, Steven

20.
The two most beautiful words in the English language are: Check Enclosed.
Parker, Dorothy

21.
Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.
Huxley, Julian S.

22.
I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page. The syllables of the word begin to move around. Stressed accents begin to invert. The word abandons its meaning like an overload which is too heavy and prevents dreaming. Then words take on other meanings as if they had the right to be young. And the words wander away, looking in the nooks and crannies of vocabulary for new company, bad company.
Bachelard, Gaston

23.
Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.
Card, Orson Scott

24.
A single word often betrays a great design.
Racine, Jean

25.
Political correctness is simply a speed bump in the traffic of truth, free thought and speech.

26.
If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.
Proverb, Chinese

27.
We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.
Haldeman, Harold Robbins

28.
An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and shaved it down till the average is three and a half... I never write metropolis for seven cents, because I can get the same money for city. I never write policeman, because I can get the same price for cop.... I never write valetudinarian at all, for not even hunger and wretchedness can humble me to the point where I will do a word like that for seven cents; I wouldn't do it for fifteen.
Twain, Mark

29.
A word from the mouth is like a stone from a sling.
Proverb, Spanish

30.
I find it difficult to believe that words have no meaning in themselves, hard as I try. Habits of a lifetime are not lightly thrown aside.
Chase, Stuart

31.
A new word is like a fresh seed sewn on the ground of the discussion.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig

32.
Words are loaded pistols.
Sartre, Jean-Paul

33.
Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.
Cather, Willa

34.
There's no sentence that's too short in the eyes of God.
Zinsser, William

35.
Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
Yeats, William Butler

36.
Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.
Renard, Jules

37.
I have never been hurt by what I have not said.
Coolidge, Calvin

38.
Words of love, are works of love.
Alger, William R.

39.
Words are the money of fools.
Hobbes, Thomas

40.
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
Adams, Henry Brooks

41.
To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.
Santayana, George

42.
Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.
Horace

43.
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about short and cheap?
Diller, Phyllis

44.
Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
Rohn, Jim

45.
Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.
Hemingway, Ernest

46.
Words from the thread on which we string our experiences.
Huxley, Aldous

47.
Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what we are given by the senses.
Arendt, Hannah

48.
Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig

49.
But words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew, upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
Byron, Lord

50.
Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.
Stalin, Joseph


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