Bangles Quote by Hortense Calisher

Words. I had always loved them. I collected them, like I had collected pretty stones as a child. I liked to roll words over…

— Kate Forsyth

Jewels, lies, slips of paper, dried flowers, memories of thing long past, useless quotations, idle hands, beads, buttons, and mischief.

— Holly Black

All words are pegs to hang ideas on.

— Henry Ward Beecher

“Oh, but clever words On pages turn to fragments, circles, points and lines And they cover them like carpets With graceful, meaningless, ornamental designs”

— Aaron Weiss

I designed collections around whatever struck my fancy ... fruits, vegetables, politics, or peacocks!

— Lilly Pulitzer

I remember reading Dr. Seuss books, and he's rhyming so many words together and I just loved the way it sounded. It became a…

— Tierra Whack

My mom used to keep all her Christmas cards in a basket bedecked with red ribbon, and I loved to look at them all…

— Elizabeth Berg

Near that a dusty paint-box, some odd hooks, A half-burnt match, an ivory block, three books, Where conic sections, spherics, logarithms, To great Laplace,…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

I stalk certain words... I catch them in mid-flight, as they buzz past, I trap them, clean them, peel them, I set myself in…

— Pablo Neruda

I write short phrases and used to think they were poems!

— Aishwarya R. Dhanush

I'm an inveterate note taker - I scribble all these things down on pieces of paper. I wanted to create some way of organizing…

— Mitch Kapor

She understood. They were plastic flowers of words—but they looked nice on the surface.

— Anne Ursu