Animal Quote by Gerald Brenan

Word gets around when the circus comes to town, don't it?

— Cormac McCarthy

Words move, turning over like tumbling clowns; like certain books and like fleas, they possess activity. All men equally have the right to say,…

— Rose Macaulay

Those who run to long words are mainly the unskillful and tasteless; they confuse pomposity with dignity, flaccidity with ease, and bulk with force.

— Henry Watson Fowler

Words can do wonderful things. They pound, purr. They can urge, they can wheedle, whip, whine. They can sing, sass, singe. They can churn,…

— Gwendolyn Brooks

Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.

— Jodi Picoult

A person is master to those words they don't say, and slave to the ones they do.

— John Reyes

The swiftest horse can't overtake a word once spoken

— Chinese Proverb

The injury of words. Yes, the brutality of words.

— Markus Zusak

Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes.

— Cher

For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding; and there is no beauty in it either, any…

— Xenophon

Words have a life of their own. There is no telling what they will do. Within a matter of days, they can even turn…

— Craig Brown