Best Quotes about Words
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
There's no sentence that's too short in the eyes of God.
Zinsser, William
A single word often betrays a great design.
Racine, Jean
All our words from loose using have lost their edge.
Hemingway, Ernest
If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.
Ellison, Ralph
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.
Twain, Mark
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
Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.
Huxley, Julian S.
Like an arrow to its mark flies the word good man's word.
Platen
Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what we are given by the senses.
Arendt, Hannah
Strong words are required for weak principles.
Horton, Doug
I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.
Glasgow, Ellen
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
Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs.
Hurd, Pearl Strachan
I don't give a damn for man that can spell a word only one way.
Twain, Mark
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
The words of the world want to make sentences.
Bachelard, Gaston
Print is the sharpest and the strongest weapon of our party.
Stalin, Joseph
Words are all we have.
Beckett, Samuel
If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.
Proverb, Chinese
The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
Mohammed
The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.
Words of love, are works of love.
Alger, William R.
Every spoken word arouses our self-will.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing.
Gladden, W.
Each group of words is processed by the brain as a single thought. And because the words are viewed in context, you retain them more accurately than if you processed the words individually.
Saperstein, Rose
Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.
Haldane, John B. S.
Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
It is with a word as with an arrow -- once let it loose and it does not return.
The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.
Kraus, Karl
A new word is like a fresh seed sewn on the ground of the discussion.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
Why do social workers use five-syllable words when dealing with juvenile delinquents?
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
Spencer, Herbert
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
Ibsen, Henrik
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about short and cheap?
Diller, Phyllis
Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
Lowell, James Russell
Words represent your intellect. The sound, gesture and movement represent your feelings.
Fripp, Patricia
What do you call a boomerang that doesn't work? A stick!
Kirchenbaum
The supply of words in the world market is plentiful but the demand is falling. Let deeds follow words now.
Walesa, Lech
Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.
Card, Orson Scott
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
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
The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.
Woolf, Virginia
Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.
Lao-Tzu
If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?
Wright, Steven
Our great men have written words of wisdom to be used when hardship must be faced. Life obliges us with hardship so the words of wisdom shouldn't go to waste.
L'Chiam
One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
Waugh, Evelyn
Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.
Renard, Jules
Eating words has never given me indigestion.
Churchill, Winston
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