Quotes about words

"The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause."

Twain, Mark on words
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"When I look at you, the wheels of time stand still vs. Your face could stop a clock"

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"The written word can be erased -- not so with the spoken word."

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"When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words."

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"Why do social workers use five-syllable words when dealing with juvenile delinquents?"

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"Words convey the mental treasures of one period to the generations that follow; and laden with this, their precious freight, they sail safely across gulfs of time in which empires have suffered shipwreck and the languages of common life have sunk into oblivion."

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"You can stroke people with words."

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"Good words are worth a thousand pictures."

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"One thing you can give and still keep is your word."

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"It is with a word as with an arrow -- once let it loose and it does not return."

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"Please God, make my words today sweet and tender, for tomorrow I may have to eat them."

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

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"The 500 most commonly used words have an average of 28 meanings each."

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"The supply of words in the world market is plentiful but the demand is falling. Let deeds follow words now."

Walesa, Lech on words   

"Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things."

Walton, Izaak on words   

"One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die."

Waugh, Evelyn on words   

"Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground."

Webster, Noah on words   

"Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination."

Wittgenstein, Ludwig on words   

"A new word is like a fresh seed sewn on the ground of the discussion."

Wittgenstein, Ludwig on words   

"The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping."

Woolf, Virginia on words   

"If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?"

Wright, Steven on words   

"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 on words   

"There's no sentence that's too short in the eyes of God."

Zinsser, William on words   

"With enough verbs and prepositions, anything can happen."

Wakcher, Michael on words   

"When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain"

Shakespeare, William on words   

"You are going to use this courtroom to kill me? I am going to fight for my life one way or another. You should let me do it with words."

Manson, Charles on words   

"It's a writer's job to carve with language, to hew close to the bone."

King, Stephen on words   

"If I where to describe myself in one word, a new word should be made."

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"Words alike flames, they burn. leaving nothing, not even blood, but ashes, which are never identified, never retraceable and ridiculously impossible to be put back together again. "

Pacis, Charles Adrian on words   

"Words so vascular and alive they would bleed if you cut them, words that walked and ran."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on words   

""Let" shouldn't bee in the same sentence as "ME WIN" at ALL! "

BPBEE on words   

"The same word we love and hate, leaves in different directions, taking different paths. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on words   

"Through words to the meaning of thoughts with no words. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on words   

"How many unuttered words died in the heads of those for whom a word was too expensive. "

Stojanovic, Dejan on words   

"When the long bygone Lee Po wanted to say something, he could do it with only a few words."

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"A word only writes its night and rides its dream."

Stojanovic, Dejan on words