Words Quotes

Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.

I don't like compliments and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously wh...

Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are ...

Music had stirred him like that. Music had troubled him many times. But music was not articulate. It...

The words 'Space Age' have a quaint, nostalgic tone - sitting on midcentury modern furniture watchin...

If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat ...

I tried to use words that were dealing with the emotional quality that any human being could recogni...

I want to see the thirstinside the syllablesI want to touch the firein the sound:I want to feel the ...

I stalk certain words... I catch them in mid-flight, as they buzz past, I trap them, clean them, pee...

Family. It was just a word…Could see its letters all strung together. But it was a symbol, too. And ...

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fi...

Elodin pointed down the street. "What color is that boy's shirt?""Blue.""What do you mean by blue? D...

Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossib...

So blue is a name?''It is a word. Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As humans have power, w...

I am no poet. I do not love words for the sake of words. I love words for what they can accomplish. ...

But only a fool claims there is no such thing as love. When you see two young ones taring at each ot...

Anything you say at this point cannot be trusted. You know I am well and truly angry, so you are in ...

Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words.

This is what is called speaking. I believe that is the term. When words come out, fly into the air, ...

Surely it is an odd way to spend your life - sitting alone in a room with a pen in your hand, hour a...

To care about words, to have a stake in what is written, to believe in the power of books - this ove...

At certain moments, words are nothing; it is thetone in which they are uttered.

Speak you too,speak as the last,say out your say.Speak-But don’t split off No from Yes.Give your say...

The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by w...

DYER. No, I am not of your Mind, for the Dialogue was fitted up with too much Facility. Words must b...

In other words the pictures are in a kind of relationship with each other which is touching only at ...

The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the ...

The act of true reading is in its very essence democratic. Consider the nature of what happens when ...

A man who lives right, and is right, has more power in his silence than another has by his words.

My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn't just crossfire where you...

Where everything is words, you'd think I'd have some mastery and know my way around, but all this ch...

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

The reason is that they utter these words of theirs not by virtue of a skill, but by a divine power ...

But I don't think we shall quarrel about a word - the subject of our inquiry is too important for th...

Let deeds match words.

Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.

Worshipping the Lord means giving Him the place that he must have; worshipping the Lord means statin...

Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.

Things are set up as contraries that are not even in the same category. Listen to me: the opposite o...

I long ago abandoned myself to a blind lust for the written word. Literature is my sandbox. In it I ...

I long ago abandoned myself to a blind lust for the written word. Literature is my sandbox. In it I ...

We cannot see Beauty till we let go our hold of it. It was Buddha who conquered the world, not Alexa...

In learning a language, when from mere words we reach the laws of words, we have gained a great deal...

Here is the time for the sayable, here is its home.Speak and attest. More than everthe things we ca...

Language is fossil poetry

Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences...

I don't really believe anything I say. Because the nature of my work concerns the spaces between the...

Soft words are hard arguments.

I think it'd be wonderful if we could train young girls to be active in lots of ways and that they t...

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.

The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. You don...

I ate them like salad, books were my sandwich for lunch, my tiffin and dinner and midnight munch. I ...

His library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen there and always did....

[He] was always here to offer cups of good clear Walden Pond, or shout down the deep well of Shakesp...

If you write a blog post, you've got something to say; you're not just creating words and synonyms. ...

People are jostling at the gates of heaven or Department stores Words are bumping into each other("P...

I believe in the magic and authority of words.

I believe in the magic and in the authority of words

Man's brain, enlarged fortuitously, invented words in an ambitious effort to learn how to think, onl...

Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for ou...

I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how fa...

Have you ever heard a good joke? If you've ever heard someone just right, with the right pacing, the...

So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who ha...

The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting li...

Words', he said, 'is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life. So you must simply try to ...

Don't gobblefunk around with words.

Science fiction" means different things to different people. "When I make a word do a lot of work li...

What a glut of books! Who can read them?

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

Tears are the noble language of eyes, and when true love of words is destitute. The eye by tears spe...

Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone but principally by catch words.

Music and literature, the two temporal arts, contrive their pattern of sounds in time; or, in other ...

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in. As I walked, my mind was busy fi...

Definitions are the foundation of reason. You can’t reason without them.

To doubt the literal meaning of the words of Jesus or Moses incurs hostility from most people, but i...

I don’t know why—it’s just that—I don’t know—they’re not kin."—Surprising word, I think to myself ne...

It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed the deeper they burn.

For example. But I cannot give you an example. It was not so much any one example, any one event, wh...

The names of minerals and the minerals themselves do not differ from each other, because at the bott...

The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame,...

His words saddened them greatly, though they couldn't say why.

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words.

I'm very gullible when it comes to my own words. I believe everything I say, though I know I am a li...

I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise...

Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers,...

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

Sometimes, when people speak, I cease listening to their words and zoom in instead on the cadence, a...

I'd always admired writers. I'd always loved words on a page. Somehow, words seemed to bypass image ...

The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present ...

When people endure a traumatic event, they are either defeated or made stronger. On Sept. 11, I told...

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Great journalism will always attract readers. The words, pictures and graphics that are the stuff of...

For the time beingWords scatterAre they fallen leaves?

Yes, and words are not deeds, Solanka allowed, moving off fretfully. Though words can become deeds. ...

How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!

All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beg...

Words are all we have.

Words are the clothes thoughts wear.

There is no use indicting words, they are no shoddier than what they peddle.