Words Quotes

Thanks to words we have been able to rise above the brutes and thanks to words we have often sunk...

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one’s never in ...

Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk...

Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’r...

The strange words rolled through his mind; rumbled, like talking thunder; like the drums at the summ...

What a gulf between impression and expression! That’s our ironic fate—to have Shakespearean feelings...

When I was a young person I went to the university and I learned a rational language, to think with ...

Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't.

Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound,Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.

All human wisdom is summed up in two words wait and hope.

There are words which close a conversation as with an iron door.

If you travel to the States... they have a lot of different words than like what we use. For instanc...

In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape...

If words are not things, or maps are not the actual territory, then, obviously, the only possible li...

Definitions create conditions.

If we do not objectify, and feel instinctively and permanently that words are not the things spoken ...

For words like Nature half reveal And half conceal the Soul within.

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.

Learning is a result of listening, which in turn leads to even better listening and attentiveness to...

The savage rushing of the river seemed to be inside her head, inside her body. Even when the oarswom...

Take care of your words and the words will take care of you.

In Sanskrit words are like living beings; depending on context, circumstance and environment their m...

Every day, let our words blossom lotus in some one's heart.

What do you think was the first sound to become a word, a meaning?...I imagined two people without w...

Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings...

I realize that people still read books now and some people actually love them, but in 1946 in the Vi...

Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine, were taken away.

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce t...

I want to do things so wild with you that I don't know how to say them.

Then at certain moments I remember one of his words and I suddenly feel the sensual woman flaring up...

Through books I discovered everything to be loved, explored, visited, communed with. I was enriched ...

I stress the expansion and elaboration of language. In simplifying it, reducing it, we reduce the po...

I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful tha...

A word and everything is saved.A word and all is lost.

No encounter occured that day, and I was glad of it; I took out of my pocket a little Homer I had no...

Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

I suppose what one wants really is ideal company and books are ideal company.

Taxes are like abortion, and not just because both are grotesque procedures supported by Democrats. ...

Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.

One bright day in the last week of February, I was walking in the park, enjoying the threefold luxur...

Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.

The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never ju...

Prowling the meanings of a word, prowling the history of a person, no use expecting a flood of light...

The whole beauty of music is that it goes where your words won't let you.

You are lucky to be one of those people who wishes to build sand castles with words, who is willing ...

Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of l...

How pathetic it is to describe these things which can't truly be described.

And he would listen, making only a few comments, always sympathetic, so that when I left him I had t...

Put your mouthful of words away and come with me to watch the lilies open in such a field, growin...

It wasn't what you said", he told her."It was how I felt when you said it".

She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.

The downtrodden who are the great creators of slang hurl pithiness and colour at poverty and oppre...

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...