Abstract Quote by Julian Jaynes

Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.

— Jules Renard

A written word is the choicestof relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Words are instruments, they are tools that, in their different ways, are as effective as any sharp edge or violate chemical. They are, like…

— Tim Radford

“In any case, it is a mistake to equate concreteness with things. An individual object is the unique phenomenon it is because it is…

— Terry Eagleton

“A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged; it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in colour and…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Words are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.

— Samuel Butler

“:Paintings are easy to see," he said after a moment. "Open, presented flat to the eye. Words are not easy. Words have to be…

— Catherine Fisher

“But remember that words are signals, counters. They are not immortal. And it can happen - to use an image you'll understand - it…

— Brian Friel

Words are small shapes in the gorgeous chaos of the world. ... they bring the world into focus, they corral ideas, they hone thoughts,…

— Diane Ackerman

We have the words in our pockets, obscure directions. The old ones have taken away the light of their presence.

— Denise Levertov

I conceive that words are like money, not the worse for being common, but that it is the stamp of custom alone that gives…

— William Hazlitt

“We open our mouths and out flow words whose ancestries we do not even know. We are walking lexicons. In a single sentence of…

— Penelope Lively