Elastic Quote by Mahatma Gandhi

English is such a deliciously complex and undisciplined language, we can bend, fuse, distort words to all our purposes. We give old words new…

— Willard Gaylin

I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.

— Alan Rickman

Its very variety, subtlety, and utterly irrational, idiomatic complexity makes it possible to say things in English which simply cannot be said in any…

— Robert A. Heinlein

One is so apt to cheapen a thing when one tries hastily to put it into words, and ever afterward it is never quite…

— Ruth Sawyer

It’s fascinating. You know all these words, and they’re all English, but when you string them together into sentences, they just don’t make any…

— Cassandra Clare

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

From the start, English has happily absorbed words from every tongue it's encountered.

— Susie Dent

A laxity pervades the popular use of words.

— Charles Lamb

Words are such gross machinery, so primitive and ambiguous.

— Frank Herbert

The way I write, words can means lots of different things.

— Beth Orton

A word is elegy to what it signifies.

— Anonymous

Language to me is a tool a very clumsy tool. And words are garden tools with which to till the soil of one's life.

— Joy Kogawa