Words Quotes

Words have meaning. And their meaning doesn't change.

Burning the flag is a form of expression. Speech doesn't just mean written words or oral words. It c...

Every day, my mom and I would watch a different Judy Garland VHS. I love how she tells a story when ...

There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient ...

It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own. ...

I care not how humble your bookshelf may be, or how lonely the room which it adorns. Close the door ...

I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling wor...

That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.

My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you. But for every real word spoken,...

Words are a lens to focus one’s mind.

He walked, groping for a sentence that hung in his mind as an empty shape. He could neither fill it ...

Roark spoke quietly. He was the only man in the room who felt certain of his own words.

The pressure disappeared with the first word he put on paper. He thought--while his hand moved rapid...

He knew, while he spoke, that it was useless, because his words sounded as if they were hitting a va...

For in the end laws are just words on a page - words that are sometimes malleable, opaque, as depend...

My morning begins with trying not to get up before the sun rises. But when I do, it's because my hea...

Language most shows a man speak that I may see thee.

Words borrowed of antiquity do lend a kind of majesty to style, and are not without their delight so...

The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.

A man of words and not of deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds.

The Israeli government has proved over the past year its commitment to peace, both in words and deed...

No matter how eloquently a dog may bark he cannot tell you that his parents were poor but honest.

A word is used "correctly" when the average hearer will be affected by it in the way intended. This ...

There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the...

And there was never a better time to delve for pleasure in language than the sixteenth century, when...

Did you ever spell a word so bad that your spell check has absolutely no clue what you're trying to ...

George Carlin is brilliant with words, and Johnny Winters is very creative. It's taking something co...

Is there a better method of departure by night than this quiet bon voyage with an open book, the sol...

I see all of us reading ourselves away from ourselves, straining in circles of light to find more l...

I can hear the library humming in the night, a choir of authors murmuring inside their books along ...

The fly lands on the swatter.The movie runs backwardsand catches fire in the projector.This species ...

Let it not be said that I have said nothing new. The arrangement of the material is new.

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ...

Never go on a date unarmed.” Words of wisdom from my father. Well, my foster father. I was an orphan...

But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.

Don't say it was delightful; make us say delightful when we've read the description. You see, all th...

I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual wor...

Dreams are the guiding words of the soul. Why should I henceforth not love my dreams and not make th...

She had to fight against developing too combative a personality or becoming altogether a misanthrope...

Sometimes she would be engaged in a laboratory exercise or a seminar when the instructor would say, ...

What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on whic...

What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on whic...

Slang is language which takes off its coat spits on its hands - and goes to work.

Look out how you use proud words.When you let proud words go, it is not easy to call them back.They ...

The great wheel of fire of ancient wisdom, silence and word engendering the myth of the origin, huma...

He lost himself in the words and images conjured in his mind and for a while forgot ... He found him...

The only thing I can recall is that it rained all day and all night, and that when I asked my father...

The words with which a child's heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remai...

He was a very private person, and sometimes it seemed to me that he was no longer interested in the ...

Jacinta never told Penelope that she loved her. The nurse knew that those who really love, love in s...

I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose sme...

I like to use simple words, but in a complicated way.

I have a mess in my head sometimes, and there's something very satisfying about putting it into word...

Words were weapons, his father had taught him that, and he'd wanted to hurt Clary more than he'd eve...

We live and breathe words.

I know how you are with your words, and, Will- I love all of them. Every word you say. The silly one...

Language is something you inherit, it's never just you doing the talking, which helps when you're pr...

The words that strike us are those that awake an echo in a zone we have already made our own—the pla...

If the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn't exist.

I walk alone, absorbed in my fantastic play, — Fencing with rhymes, which, parrying nimbly, back awa...

it does seemthe more we drinkthe better the wordsgo.

A word in earnest is as good as a speech

[W]e talk about the tyranny of words, but we like to tyrannise over them too; we are fond of having ...

Words are also seeds, and when dropped into the invisible spiritual substance, they grow and bring f...

A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls ...

A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from his guts. The other ...

Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.

Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'.

One suffers in silence so long as one has the strength and when that strength fails one speaks witho...

Where the bodily presence is weak and the speech contemptible, surely there cannot be error in makin...

Jackson," he mused. "Not a name either one of you was born to."Lizzie answered, "No. But beyond a ce...

It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.

It does not require many words to speak the truth.

In the right context you can make words do all kinds of things.

The manager of my line told me, You never put anything down except to be read. Every word ever writt...

The war began with words, but none of us paid any attention.'- Seka Milanovik

To me the term 'middle-class' connotes a safe comfortable middle-of-the road policy. Above all o...

Often I am struck in amazement about a word: I suddenly realize that the complete arbitrariness of o...

In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship wi...

I am often described to my irritation as a 'contrarian' and even had the title inflicted on me by th...

These are Tyler's words coming out of my mouth. I am Tyler's mouth. I am Tyler's hands.

We're living in a teetering tower of babble. A shaky reality of words. A DNA soup for disaster. The ...

Tyler's words coming out of my mouth. I used to be such a nice person.

In a world where vows are worthless.Where making a pledge means nothing. Where promises are made to ...

It sounds trite, but only because words make everything true sound trite. Because words always screw...

But now I want to say things that comfort me and that are a little free. For example: Thursdat is a ...

I am blinded. I open my eyes wide and only see. But the secret - that I neither see nor feel. Could ...

Beyond thought I reach a state. I refuse to divide it up into words - and what I cannot and do not w...

What would a person say to himself in the madness of sincerity? But it would be salvation. Thought t...

When I think of what I already lived through it seems to me I was shedding my bodies along the paths...

The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.

I live in words. I like looking at things, but I don't have a strong visual imagination.

Man, if I get a chance to speak on the microphone, I've got to say something somewhere in there. You...

Where words lose their meaning, people lose their lives.

Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know more.

Writing cannot express all words, words cannot encompass all ideas.

If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things. If language be not ...

Language is insight itself.

Naming enables the noble-minded to speak, and speech enables the noble-minded to act. Therefore, the...

Words are things. The words he is in possession of he cannot be deprived of. Their authority transce...