Chains Quote by John Fowles

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

— Susie Dent

That was the thing about words, they were clear and specific-chair, eye, stone- but when you talked about feelings, words were too stiff, they…

— Janet Fitch

Sometimes you don't know the effect of words until you hear it used on you.

— Mike Colter

Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.

— Theodore Dreiser

It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.

— Agnes Martin

'Words, Words, Words' was very much its title. It's just words, words, words and trying to show that I can pack as much material…

— Bo Burnham

Words are everything in this life - they can tear you down and abuse you, or they can make you feel so wonderful and…

— Sara Evans

Words have weight, something once said cannot be unsaid. Meaning is like a stone dropped into a pool; the ripples will spread and you…

— Philippa Gregory

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

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

Words are good for saying what things are, but sometimes they don't function for what things aren't.

— Colum McCann

Words are the dress of thoughts; which should no more be presented in rags, tatters, and dirt than your person should.

— Lord Chesterfield