#words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#combine #dictionary #evil #good #good and evil

You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're using different words. ↗

— S. I. Hayakawa

#because #both #different #guys #only

We know, in other words, the general conditions in which what we call, somewhat misleadingly, an equilibrium will establish itself: but we never know what the particular prices or wages are which would exist if the market were to bring about such an equilibrium. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

#bring #call #conditions #equilibrium #establish

The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#being #being there #blank #feeling #ink

I'm gonna fix that last joke by taking out all the words and adding new ones. ↗

— Mitch Hedberg

#fix #gonna #i #joke #last

When words leave off, music begins. ↗

— Heinrich Heine

#begins #leave #off #words

All our words from loose using have lost their edge. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#loose #lost #our #their #using

You don't have to be singing about love all the time in order to give love to the people. You don't have to keep flashing those words all the time. ↗

— Jimi Hendrix

#flashing #give #keep #love #order

Love and business and family and religion and art and patriotism are nothing but shadows of words when a man's starving! ↗

— O. Henry

#business #family #love #man #nothing

I always write lyrics first and the rhythm and the melody come from the lyrics. It always comes from the lyrics: words have rhythm and words have melody. ↗

— Ken Hensley

#come #comes #first #i #i always