Word

Without another word spoken on either side, the lodger took from his great trunk, a kind of temple, shining as of polished silver, and placed it carefully on the table.

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Words like winter snowflakes.

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 – Homer (c. 700 B.C.)
 – The Iliad, bk. III, l. 222

A word after a word after a word is power.

(Margaret Atwood)

Words derive their meaning from the surrounding words, just as human beings derive their meaning from interacting with other humans around them.

'Right again, quite right,' said Mr Swiveller, 'caution is the word, and caution is the act.'

In the beginning was the word, and the word was 32 bits.

Have you ever noticed that the only difference between »word« and »weird« are the vowels?

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

(Mark Twain)

Words are like prodigies. They may want to stay inside where it is safe and warm but they'll never live if they never play outside...and find themselves lost in the cold.

Words are the best toys you can give your brain.

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We shall never understand one another until we reduce the language to seven words.

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 – Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931)
 – Sand and Foam [1926]

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans – born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.

(John F. Kennedy)

»Therefore« is a word the poet must not know.

(Andre Gide)

Rotor is a fine palindrome, thought Frank Leigh Dearie as he ambled down the Lost Highway.