House Quote by Shirley Jackson

Words are like harpoons. Once they go in, they are very hard to pull out.

— Fred Hoyle

Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.

— Jodi Picoult

Our words froze in midair and we had to put them in a frying pan to thaw them so we hear what we were…

— Anonymous

We have the words in our pockets, obscure directions. The old ones have taken away the light of their presence.

— Denise Levertov

Humans waste words. They toss them like banana peels and leave them to rot. Everyone knows the peels are the best part.

— Katherine Applegate

There is no such thing as a dirty word. Nor is there a word so powerful, that it's going to send the listener to…

— Frank Zappa

I marshalled the words and opened my mouth, thinking I would hear them. But all I heard was a kind of rattle, unintelligible even…

— Samuel Beckett

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

— Ernest Hemingway

“If dirty words frighten you...I really don’t know how you have managed to live so long. People are full of dirty words. The only…

— James Baldwin

It was strange how words meant something when they came out of your mouth. Inside your head they were safe and silent, but once…

— Jenny Downham

Words were different when they lived inside of you.

— Benjamin Alire Saenz

I hated the words. Each one was like a big live insect in my mouth.

— Glen Duncan