Words

The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths theyï¿½ve been in.

— Dennis Potter, English television dramatist, screenwriter and journalist, 1935-1994

Words are loaded pistols.

— Unknown Source

Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness.

— Unknown Source

Cut these words and they would bleed; they are vascular and alive; they walk and run.

— Unknown Source

Some words in a dictionary are very much like a car in a large motor show — full of potential, but temporarily inactive.

— Unknown Source

All words are pegs to hang ideas on.

— Unknown Source

By words the mind is winged.

— Unknown Source

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

— Unknown Source

There is no doubt that I have lots of words inside me; but at moments, like rush-hour traffic at the mouth of a tunnel, they jam.

— Unknown Source

Words are loaded pistols. (Jean-Paul Sartre, French writer and philosopher, 1905-1980Fun: I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun. (Katharine Hepburn, U.S. actress, 1907-2003Language: Language is more fashion than science, and matters of usage, spelling, and pronunciation tend to wander around like hemlines. (Bill Bryson, U.S. author, Born 1951Exceptionalism: The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

— Lorraine Hansberry, U.S. author and the first black woman to write a play performed on Broadway, 1930-1965

Words are the small change of thought. (Jules Renard, French writer, 1864-1910Books: A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return. (Salman Rushdie, writer, Born 1947Justice: Since when do we have to agree with people to defend them from injustice? (Lillian Hellman, U.S. playwright and screenwriter who was blacklisted by the House Committee on Un-American Activities at the height of the anti-communist campaigns of 1947-52, 1905-1984Happiness: The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

— Benjamin Franklin, as one of the Founders of the U.S., he was a leading author, printer, politician, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat 1706-1790

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind. (Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese poet and artist, 1883-1931Silence – Protest: To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men. (Ella Wheeler, U.S. Wilcox, poet, 1850-1919Cowardice: To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox, author and poet, 1850-1919

There is no material with which human beings work which has so much potential energy as words.

— Earnest Calkins, a U.S. deaf advertising executive who pioneered the use of art in advertising, 1868-1964

Some words in a dictionary are very much like a car in a large motor show — full of potential, but temporarily inactive.

— Anthony Burgess, English author, 1917-1993

By words the mind is winged.

— Aristophanes, Greek comic playwright of ancient Athens, 447-386 B.C.E.

Cut these words and they would bleed; they are vascular and alive; they walk and run.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson, U.S. essayist, poet, and philosopher who led the transcendentalist movement, 1803-1882

The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they’ve been in.

— Dennis Potter, English television dramatist, screenwriter and journalist, 1935-1994

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson, British poet who was the Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during most of Queen Victoriaâ€™s reign, 1809-1892

All words are pegs to hang ideas on.

— Henry Ward Beecher, U.S. clergyman, social reformer, and speaker, known for his support of the abolition of slavery, 1813-1887

The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they’ve been in.

— Dennis Potter, English television dramatist, screenwriter and journalist, 1935-1994

Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness.

— Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American artist and writer in both Arabic and English, 1883-1931

There is no doubt that I have lots of words inside me; but at moments, like rush-hour traffic at the mouth of a tunnel, they jam.

— John Updike, U.S. writer, and art and literary critic, 1932-2009

Words are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.

— Samuel Butler, English author, 1835-1902

Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne, English novelist and short story writer, 1804-1864

Words are but the signs of ideas.

— Samuel Johnson, English writer, moralist, literary critic, and lexicographer, 1709-1784

Words are the small change of thought.

— Jules Renard, French writer, 1864-1910

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

— Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American artist and writer in both Arabic and English, 1883-1931

By words the mind is winged.

— Aristophanes, Greek comic playwright of ancient Athens, 447-386 B.C.E.

There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.

— Voltaire, French Enlightenment writer and philosopher, 1694-1778

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