About Quote by Erin McKean

The extraordinary thing about new words is that probably only about one per cent of them are new. Most are old words revived and…

— Susie Dent

Words can crush things that are unseen.

— Jewel

If words fall into disrepair, what will substitute? They are all we have

— Tony Judt

Words can enhance experience, but they can also take so much away. We see an insect and at once we abstract certain characteristics and…

— Jane Goodall

New words are always being born and old ones fading away.

— Patience Strong

Sometimes you don't know the effect of words until you hear it used on you.

— Mike Colter

Words are not trivial. They matter because they raise consciousness.

— Richard Dawkins

Above all, beware of platitudes, i.e., word combinations that have already appeared a thousand times… As a general rule, try to find new combinations…

— Vladimir Nabokov

Words are useless, especially sentences.

— Madonna Ciccone

Dull words are what make many bright sentences shine. They do not call attention to themselves.

— Alexandra Petri

Why and how are words so important that they cannot be too often used.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

If words don't have vibration behind them, and a real feeling behind them, then they're just words

— Charlotte Rampling