Quote by Garson O'Toole

“Words linger and words matter, I learned, and it’s not possible to predict the fallout they can have on a subject’s life.”

— Beth Macy

“So many people make a name nowadays, that it is more distinguished to remain in obscurity.”

— Thomas Hardy

“Nowadays people changed their stuff so often that any expertise in how to make things last was becoming superfluous.”

— Fredrik Backman

“As long as we are engaged in this orgy of unnecessary terminology and notation…”

— David J. Griffiths

“Only the educated stop to look for words - having enough to occasionally misplace them.”

— Derek B. Miller

“When we repeat the same words and phrases that appear in the daily media, we accept the absence of a larger framework.”

— Timothy Snyder

“Information leads to transformation. If you are not inspired by being informed, you will expire by becoming deformed!”

— Israelmore Ayivor

“Things we say in one line generally can't be explained by us even in hundreds.”

— Lovely Goyal

“...by the time you've finished naming a thing, it has already changed and the name you gave it no longer defines it exactly...”

— Joann Sfar

“Sometimes you say a word so many times that it loses its meaning...”

— Anna Quindlen

“You can make a text mean anything, especially if it’s old and full of ambiguities.”

— Arturo Pérez-Reverte

“Sometimes, when something has a name it changes things. Especially when the name is big, long, and official-sounding, like "gender-nonconforming".”

— Lori Duron