Acquire Quote by Felix Frankfurter

Words are living things. They have personality, point of view... agenda.

— Hannibal

Words, when well chosen, have so great a force in them, that a description often gives us more lively ideas than the sight of…

— Joseph Addison

Words matter, especially words defining complicated political arrangements, because they shape perceptions of the events of the past, attitudes toward policies being carried out…

— Michael Mandelbaum

“Words matter. Words shape worldviews. Words provoke action and reaction, which in turn provoke more words. Getting the words right is critically important. Getting…

— Helio Fred Garcia

“Words are a mirror of their times. By looking at the areas in which the vocabulary of a language is expanding fastest in a…

— John Ayto

The emergence of a new term to describe a certain phenomenon, of a new adjective to designate a certain quality, is always of interest,…

— Logan Pearsall Smith

It's important to be precise about words, because of the thought value of them-they frame and shape so much of the way we understand…

— Michael Nesmith

To turn events into ideas is the function of literature.

— George Santayana

Words are a lens to focus one's mind.

— Ayn Rand

“During the second half of the twentieth century, cross-fertilization among the disciplines of history, literature, sociology, and psychology led to scholarly awareness that historical…

— Miranda Wilcox

Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Sometimes writers or writer-directors can get nuts about words, but you know and I know that it's the thought process behind the words that…

— John Kapelos