Word

I bought one of those Word-A-Day calendars to improve my vocabulary for college.

reify – to regard or treat (an abstraction) as if it had concrete or material existence.

The web of words wraps round the whole wide world, concealing the secret numbers underneath.

1001 1001 0110 1001 1010 1001

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

The word on my mind right now is >>weekend<<. It's only a few hours away!

I can't wait to get away from this office!!

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.

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.

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

We had words. Each and every evening.

Sometimes, when he stopped for beer after work, we had dishes and pots and food, too.

LI

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.

--The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
(trans. Edward Fitzgerald, 1st ed.)

There is a purity in words that cannot be sullied by their use.

A word has the power to define, to bind, to create, to destroy. Truely, a poet has power undreamt of by kings.

A word after a word after a word is power.

(Margaret Atwood)

“Be careful what you say—you may have to eat your words.”

I don’t think so much about eating my words as about wearing them. When someone sees me, the words come back to haunt like a miasma around me. No matter how colourful my dress, bad words turn everything grey and muddy brown.