#word

I object to you using words like squander and pork. What is pork in one part of the country is an essential project in another part. ↗

— John Breaux

#country #essential #i #like #object

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words. ↗

— Phillips Brooks

#his #lives #man #more #more power

Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones. ↗

— Terry Brooks

#after #book #even #i #next

A ghost is someone who hasn't made it - in other words, who died, and they don't know they're dead. So they keep walking around and thinking that you're inhabiting their - let's say, their domain. So they're aggravated with you. ↗

— Sylvia Browne

#around #dead #died #domain #ghost

I would like to electrocute everyone who uses the word "fair" in connection with income tax policies. ↗

— William F. Buckley, Jr.

#everyone #fair #i #income #income tax

The word Chivalry is derived from the French cheval, a horse. ↗

— Thomas Bulfinch

#derived #french #horse #word

But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. ↗

— George Byron

#drop #falling #ink #like #makes

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear. ↗

— Thomas Babington Macaulay

#broken #drink #eat #galling #government

Words are not too old, only people are too old if they use the same words too frequently. ↗

— Elias Canetti

#old #only #people #same #too

Be not a slave of words. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#words