Grew Quote by Jan Karon

Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the…

— Salman Rushdie

Words are like gems to me... imagine yourself walking through a very shallow stream and picking up beautiful stones that catch your eye... that's…

— Anne Rice

I was fascinated by the shape of words even before I knew what they meant.

— Susie Dent

I marshalled the words and opened my mouth, thinking I would hear them. But all I heard was a kind of rattle, unintelligible even…

— Samuel Beckett

The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind…

— Terry Pratchett

I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand…

— Carl Sandburg

I love words but I don't like strange ones. You don't understand them and they don't understand you. Old words is like old friends,…

— Will Rogers

Wordstruck is exactly what I was—and still am: crazy about the sound of words, the look of words, the taste of words, the feeling…

— Robert MacNeil

Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle…

— Oscar Wilde

Sometimes words come out of me and I don't know where they come from or why. They're like falling stars tumbling through the universe;…

— Glenda Millard

We invented words; we'll tell you how they're supposed to sound.

— John Oliver

I grew up with a love of words.

— Essie Davis