Instruments Quote by Steven Millhauser

I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of the earth, and that things are the…

— Samuel Johnson

“Words are instruments, they are tools that, in their different ways, are as effective as any sharp edge or violate chemical. They are, like…

— Tim Radford

How true it is that words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean.

— Theodore Dreiser

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 are such gross machinery, so primitive and ambiguous.

— Frank Herbert

Words are the money of fools. Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon with them, but they are the money of fools.

— Thomas Hobbes

Words are small shapes in the gorgeous chaos of the world.

— Diane Ackerman

Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes.

— Cher

I am convinced that words are things, and we simply don't have the machinery to measure what they are. I believe that words are…

— Maya Angelou

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

— Susie Dent

Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.

— Theodore Dreiser

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

— Paulo Coelho