Arise Quote by Samuel Johnson

Among the many evils which prevail under the sun, the abuse of words is not the least considerable. By the influence of time, and…

— Hannah More

All those big words produce disgust today.

— Dejan Stojanovic

The words that come direct from the people are the greatest.If you substitute one out of your own vocabulary, it disappears before your eyes.

— Dorothea Lange

Cropped up emotions, can become tasteless words.

— Melchor Lim

“Words and emotions are simple currencies. If we inflate them, they lose their value, just like money. They begin to mean nothing. Use 'beautiful'…

— Jess Walter

Words have their own hierarchy, their own protocol, their own artistic titles, their own plebeian stigmas.

— Jose Saramago

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

— Huey Newton

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

Words have great cumulative power, but in the 21st century, a single image is much stronger. An image suggests the unvarnished truth. That is…

— Alexandra Kerry

Dull words are what make many bright sentences shine. They do not call attention to themselves.

— Alexandra Petri

“That our words are, as a general rule, filled by the people to whom we address them with a meaning which those people desire…

— Marcel Proust

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne