Diction Quote by Peter De Vries

There are words which cut like steel.

— Honore de Balzac

Words are clamor-filled shells. There's many a story in the miniature of a single word!

— Gaston Bachelard

They are words that are easy enough to say and which fill vast empty spaces.

— Paulo Coelho

Word meanings are like stretchy pullovers, whose outline contour is visible, but whose detailed shape varies with use.

— Jean Aitchison

Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

— Joseph Joubert

Words seem like drops of water in a stream that has its own wholeness and its own motion.

— Donald Hall

Words are small straitjackets when put around creative flourishes and maneuverings.

— Robert Genn

“Words are like physical objects around us that appear to be continuous and whole but are in fact composed of particles too small for…

— Christina Meldrum

Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

— Julian Huxley

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

— Susie Dent

Words are such gross machinery, so primitive and ambiguous.

— Frank Herbert

Words are objects of a color and a size and a form and a shape.

— Robert Barry