The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they�ve been in.
Words are loaded pistols.
Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness.
Cut these words and they would bleed; they are vascular and alive; they walk and run.
Some words in a dictionary are very much like a car in a large motor show — full of potential, but temporarily inactive.
All words are pegs to hang ideas on.
By words the mind is winged.
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
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.
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.
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.
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.
There is no material with which human beings work which has so much potential energy as words.
Some words in a dictionary are very much like a car in a large motor show — full of potential, but temporarily inactive.
By words the mind is winged.
Cut these words and they would bleed; they are vascular and alive; they walk and run.
The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they’ve been in.
Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
All words are pegs to hang ideas on.
The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they’ve been in.
Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness.
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.
Words are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.
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.
Words are but the signs of ideas.
Words are the small change of thought.
All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.
By words the mind is winged.
There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.