Employed Quote by S. J. Perelman

Yiddish is the voice of exile, the tongue of ghettos, but I'll shed a tear when it joins ancient Greek and dead Latin. For…

— Linda Barnes

I want to make a summing up, brief and to the point, but thorough. I have never suppressed a word in my books out…

— John Henry Mackay

My words like eyes that flinch from light, refuse And shut upon obscurity; my acts Cast to their opposites by impatient violence Break up…

— Stephen Spender

... ideals, standards, aspirations,--those are chameleon words, and take color from their speakers,--often false tints. A scholarly man of my acquaintance once told me…

— Carolyn Wells

Teach me, dear creature, how to think and speak; Lay open to my earthy-gross conceit, Smother'd in errors, feeble, shallow, weak, The folded meaning…

— William Shakespeare

The very large, very respectable, and very knowing class of misanthropes who rejoice in the name of grumblers,--persons who are so sure that the…

— Edwin Percy Whipple

Any word that you say can catch anyone's feeling so be careful by choosing words

— Spido

Visually through my work, over and over, I'm trying to create characters that are - to some people they may be monstrous, and I…

— Chris Mars

I know sociologically that words, the power of the word, words stigmatize people.

— Huey Newton

We all have prejudices to dispel: the need to get away from thinking that 'I' am important and special and 'you' are not, and…

— Ingrid Newkirk

“Then let us have a language worthy of our world, a democratic style where rich and well-born nouns can roister with some sluttish verb…

— William H. Gass

Some simple words we tell have lasting impressions on them

— Tallent Jnr Chingwah III