Language Quote by Emily Dickinson

A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

— Emily Dickinson

A word is dead when it's been said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.

— Ritu Ghatourey

that is not the last word; it is not even an apt word; it is a dead word from ten years back.

— Evelyn Waugh

The way to recognize a dead word is that it exudes boredom.

— Anais Nin

Here is the whole set! a character dead at every word.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Conservation is now a dead word.

— Marjory Stoneman Douglas

“I was facing him before the last word was out, but I should have been dead by then. In a way I did die,…

— Peter S. Beagle

If the word is not dead when it reaches the hearer, he murders it at once by a contradiction, a stipulation, a condition, a…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“You said somebody beat me to damning you.” “Melodrama. Did it curry favor? You kissed me.” You don‘t feel damned?” “God said, Let there…

— Karen Marie Moning

I never thought of myself as being in the avant-garde. I said what I had to say, as I was able to say it.

— Simone de Beauvoir

He said 'baby I love you' I said 'I love you too' he said 'I don't know what I would do without you' I…

— Cassandra Crosby

I have said it before and I will say it again: Impeachment is off the table.

— Nancy Pelosi