Commentators Quote by Malcolm Forbes

One must know and recognize not merely the direct but the secret power of the word.

— Knut Hamsun

If you think you might have secret information listening to me, you're lost.

— Morton Feldman

The greatest way to make something so secret. Is to completely shut it out of popular opinion, then the word merely becomes a psychotic…

— Jeremy Limn

“I remember a day in class when he leaned forward, in his characteristic pose - the pose of a man about to impart a…

— E.B. White

One hundred years ago, if someone said, 'damn,' people would take notice. Now, you can say almost anything. Secrets are the same way. Once…

— Paul Levinson

The man who uses big words is afraid that if people knew what he was talking about, they would know he didnt know what…

— Vikrant Parsai

There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner.

— Diane Setterfield

...if you do not even understand what words say, how can you expect to pass judgement on what words conceal?

— Hilda Doolittle

It is easy to utter what has been kept silent, but impossible to recall what has been uttered.

— Plutarch

People, in my long experience, want to talk. They may believe they wish to keep secrets, and they may believe that they are capable…

— J. Robert Lennon

It is easy to keep secrets by being honest in an ironic tone of voice.

— Andrew Solomon

Vague and mysterious forms of speech, and abuse of language, have so long passed for mysteries of science; and hard or misapplied words with…

— John Locke