Boxes Quote by Tom Waits

I enjoy wording. Words for me are tangible bodies, visible sirens, incarnate sensualities.

— Fernando Pessoa

I always loved messing around with words.

— Shaun Ryder

I like crisp words like 'blimey', 'yikes', 'crap' which describe consternation, embarrassment, and sometimes wonderment without making me type so many alphabets.

— Twinkle Khanna

I really like language - and slang in particular, and just the shorthand we use when we communicate with people.

— Brian Azzarello

Slang moves on so fast that most new words disappear soon after they are coined. But there is always something that sticks behind.

— Susie Dent

I've always loved the English language. I just like words, you know?

— Little Simz

We like words!... They help us do our job well!

— Anonymous

I just see myself as someone who has a bit of a way with words, basically.

— Tim Minchin

I've always been very wordy; I've got a great vocabulary.

— Lemmy

I like words. I like the way they clash around together and bang up against each other, especially in songs.

— Jimmy Webb

I like words. Words are places, rooms, distant airs, thin and tropical. They make us feel and imagine we are more than our bodies.

— Rickie Lee Jones

I've been collecting linguistic oddities for years and years, ever since I was small. I've got loads of notebooks where I've jotted down things…

— Susie Dent