Words Quotes

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...

Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the be...

You see how I tryTo reach with wordsWhat matters mostAnd how I fail.

My hope was that organizations would start including this range of skills in their training programs...

The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its cover plastere...

As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately going to...

I will tell these stories...because to do anything else would be something less than human. I speak ...

The species greatest harvest ― words.

Alex felt the words wash over him. He had the strange fantasy the things were seeking places within ...

Words and a book and a belief that the world is words...

Some words have to be explicitly uttered, Lenore. Only by actually uttering certain words does one r...

How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.

He falls quiet again and tries to understand how he can be saying these things, how it can be that h...

More than anything, more than anything she had with him, she missed the language they had invented, ...

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Words are what you fight with but what you fight about is whether or not you’re afraid of them.

I wish, he thinks, spoken words could be captured and kept in a locket.

The truth of a myth, your Honor, is not its words but its patterns.

Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who can...

Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one flee...

I find it ridiculous to assign a gender to an inanimate object incapable of disrobing and making an ...

Are you one of those people who uses words more for the sound than for the sense of them?

Words are the wellspring of the world, and language is the most powerful weapon in the ancient and s...

She was fascinated with words. To her, words were things of beauty, each like a magical powder or po...

The two most beautiful words in the English language are "cheque enclosed".

Words are not brains, you know.

There’s a larger point to be made here than my own obtuseness, which is the fragility, beauty, and a...

I saw a stop sign, and it occurred to me that just as no one expects a stop sign to stop a car, I sh...

How can love's spaciousnessbe conveyed in the narrowconfines of one syllable?

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' wor...

And you can glance out the window for a moment, distracted by the sound of small kids playing a made...

The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever.

Every evening I sat on the music-stool and wrote down my day, and it was as if I, Anna, were nailing...

Maybe I was praying for him then, in my own way. Does God have a set way of prayer, a way that He ex...