Acquaintance Quote by Carolyn Wells

Words are small shapes in the gorgeous chaos of the world. ... they bring the world into focus, they corral ideas, they hone thoughts,…

— Diane Ackerman

Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment.

— Learned Hand

A true and worthy ideal frees and uplifts a people; a false ideal imprisons and lowers.

— W. E. B. Du Bois

Words are not simple things: they take unto themselves, as they have through time, power and meaning.

— Fay Weldon

Words have their own hierarchy, their own protocol, their own artistic titles, their own plebeian stigmas.

— Jose Saramago

Words are the money of fools. Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools.

— Thomas Hobbes

I know sociologically that words, the power of the word, words stigmatize people.

— Huey Newton

Never use jargon words like 'reconceptualize', 'demassification', 'attitudinally', 'judgmentally'. They are hallmarks of a pretentious ass.

— David Ogilvy

“Don't use that exotic word "ideals". We have a good enough native word: "lies".”

— Henrik Ibsen

Words are such uncertain things, they so often sound well but mean the opposite of what one thinks they do.

— Agatha Christie

Words are a lens to focus one's mind.

— Ayn Rand

Words are the dress of thoughts; which should no more be presented in rags, tatters, and dirt than your person should.

— Lord Chesterfield