WORDS QUOTES V

quotations about words

Words are a pretty fuzzy substitute for mathematical equations.

ISAAC ASIMOV

Foundation and Empire

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Words don't tell you what people are thinking. Rarely do we use words to really tell. We use words to sell people or to convince people or to make them admire us. It's all disguise. It's all hidden -- a secret language.

ROBERT ALTMAN

Esquire, March 2004

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Words are sometimes signs of ideas; sometimes of the want of them.

ELIZA COOK

Diamond Dust

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One cannot be too careful with words, they change their minds just as people do.

JOSÉ SARAMAGO

Death with Interruptions

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Words are the least reliable purveyor of Truth.

NEALE DONALD WALSCH

Conversations with God

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A word in earnest is as good as a speech.

CHARLES DICKENS

Bleak House

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He that uses his words loosely and unsteadily will either not be minded or not understood.

JOHN LOCKE

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

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Words have not the color of the rose
Nor the beauty of the morn!

EDWIN CURRAN

"The Depths of Love"


Kind words don't wear out the tongue.

DANISH PROVERB


Words can only hurt you if you try to read them. Don't play their game!

BEN STILLER

Zoolander


Words carry weight and have impact. Our generation's vocabulary is a significant part of our culture, and everyone contributes. Words have history and baggage that are too often ignored. Meanings of words change, often incredibly slowly, so using a word now can mean that you are implicitly using all of its past meanings. Using that word can take you back to its origin and render you a contributor to the degradation it was meant to cause.

GRACE JOHNSON

"Words and their weight", The Brown Daily Herald, January 27, 2016


Words are but the bannerets of a great army, a few bits of waving color here and there; thoughts are the main body of the footman that march unseen below.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit

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My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn't just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where you've got to duck for your life and aim to kill! Words aren't only bombs and bullets -- no, they're little gifts, containing meanings!

PHILIP ROTH

Portnoy's Complaint

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Words in the head are like voices underwater. They are distorted.

JEANETTE WINTERSON

Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

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Words are in this respect like water, that they often take their taste, flavour, and character, from the mouth out of which they proceed, as the water from the channel through which it flows.

CHARLES CALEB COLTON

Lacon

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The way that words mutate reminds me of fashions in music. The word--the note--is a constant. But the setting and chord in which it occurs alters with the mood of a nation from major to minor, from the assertive to the mournful and foreboding.

NEAL ASCHERSON

"Chords of Identity in a Minor Key", Games with Shadows

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There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.

THOMAS REID

Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man

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The words we speak have such power, and we have the power to choose them wisely.

BARBARA WALSH

"Choosing our words wisely for encouragement", Deming Headlight, January 28, 2016


As the bud a leaf, so at last the thought becomes a word.

RICHARD GARNETT

De Flagello Myrtes

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Words are powerful, especially when they become actions.

PETE WILSON

"Words are powerful, especially when they become actions", Brazil Times, March 5, 2017