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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.
Best Quotes about Words
Good words are worth a thousand pictures.
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
Every spoken word arouses our self-will.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
Rohn, Jim
Words represent your intellect. The sound, gesture and movement represent your feelings.
Fripp, Patricia
Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.
Cather, Willa
A wise man hears one word and understands two.
Proverb, Yiddish
The words of the world want to make sentences.
Bachelard, Gaston
Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs.
Hurd, Pearl Strachan
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
I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.
Churchill, Winston
The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.
Mohammed
Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, we cannot evolve a tradition of what is real in the world.
Hubbard, Ruth
If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.
Ellison, Ralph
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
The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.
Kraus, Karl
Please God, make my words today sweet and tender, for tomorrow I may have to eat them.
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.
Strong words are required for weak principles.
Horton, Doug
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
The written word can be erased -- not so with the spoken word.
Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like excuse me and other such simple courtesies... Rudeness, the absence of the sacrament of consideration, is but another mark that our time-is-money society is lacking in spirituality, if not also in its enjoyment of life.
Hays, Ed
Keep your words sweet -- you may have to eat them. I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
Grellet, Stephan
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
For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice.
Eliot, T. S.
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
Spencer, Herbert
You can stroke people with words.
All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
Hemingway, Ernest
Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.
Joubert, Joseph
If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.
Proverb, Chinese
Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
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
Why do social workers use five-syllable words when dealing with juvenile delinquents?
The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts.
Parkhurst, Charles H.
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
Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what we are given by the senses.
Arendt, Hannah
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
I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about short and cheap?
Diller, Phyllis
Words are all we have.
Beckett, Samuel
The supply of words in the world market is plentiful but the demand is falling. Let deeds follow words now.
Walesa, Lech
Words are loaded pistols.
Sartre, Jean-Paul
Words of love, are works of love.
Alger, William R.
What do you call a boomerang that doesn't work? A stick!
Kirchenbaum
It is with a word as with an arrow -- once let it loose and it does not return.
Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.
Card, Orson Scott
Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.
Huxley, Julian S.
A new word is like a fresh seed sewn on the ground of the discussion.
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.
Santayana, George
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