Words Quotes

Up until Trump announced his candidacy, the conventional wisdom was that you had to be a professiona...

If my words don't flow out of a heart that rests in God's control, sovereignty, then they come out o...

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning ...

Silly words, silly words, silly awful hurting words.

Words are only painted fire a look is the fire itself.

The medium is the message.

There is a world of communication which is not dependent on words.

The communication is in the work and words are no substitute for this.

I learned from Whitman that the poem is a temple -- or a green field -- a place to enter, and in whi...

My favorite six words in recovery are: trust God, clean house, and help others.

Similes are like songs of love: They much describe they nothing prove.

Our view of man will remain superficial so long as we fail to go back to that origin [of silence], s...

It is only too evident that the invisible agitations of the kingdoms within us are arbitrarily set o...

As gold and silver are weighed in pure water, so does the soul test its weight in silence, and the w...

If I tell some one that I love him – as I may have told a hundred others – my words will convey noth...

Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entranc...

After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: wi...

Good words were the difference between Emily eating well and not. And what she had found worked best...

'You can't stop me. Your word voodoo, it doesn't work on me. Right? So how do you think you're goin...

The crime of book purging is that it involves a rejection of the word. For the word is never absolut...

Our existence has always and everywhere been tragic, but man has converted these numberless tragedie...

Like some wondrous birds out of fairy tales, books sang their songs to me and spoke to me as though ...

I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who is...

Words are things. You must be careful, careful about calling people out of their names, using racial...

The“b” word and the “n” word are like poison, whether you take poison from a vial or pour it into Ba...

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades ...

Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.

Words that defy reality are ominous. And it’s ominous reality that confronts those who would obscure...

Words that speak of things close at hand and carry far-reaching implications – those are the good wo...

Badass.'" My grandfather sampled the flavor of the word. It did not seem to revolt him, but it was n...

Perhaps it was only that when you try to put it into words you cannot express it truly, it never sou...

Even from their infancy we frame them to the sports of love: their instruction, behavior, attire, gr...

The word is half his that speaks and half his that hears it.

When man becomes reconciled to nature, when space becomes his true background, these words and conce...

Keep this in mind: it is our religion to praise life. The word "life” is the king of words. The king...

Those minutes that I'm on stage are the best! Being there and looking at the crowd and seeing their ...

There is nothing I detest so much as the contortions of these great time-and-lip servers, these affa...

A librarian had found the baby sitting abandoned on the sheer edge of the world; the librarians kept...

What are the thorns really telling her? It's why she won't let us see them, why she clings to them--...

Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too many things. Or they...

A net of words, he said at last, is more powerful than a net of rope.

Words, without power, is mere philosophy.

TELL THE WORLD WHAT YOU INTEND TO DO, BUT FIRST SHOW IT.This is the equivalent of saying "deeds, and...

Hip-hop is the streets. Hip-hop is a couple of elements that it comes from back in the days... that ...

Like all other music, it breathed passion and pathos, and emotions high or tender, in a tongue nativ...

The art of translation lies less in knowing the other language than in knowing your own.

I will write in words of fire.I will write them on your skin.I will write about desire.Write beginni...

We wrapped our dreams in words and patterned the words so that they would live forever, unforgettabl...

Never use five words if you can get away with one, eh? I've known dead men talk more than you do.

M is for magic. All the letters are, if you put them together properly. You can make magic with them...

And the people who would burn the words, the people who would take the books from the shelves, the f...

A metaphor is not an ornament. It is an organ of perception. Through metaphors, we see the world as ...

I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to ...

That speaking the words, even if true, had little power to change the inevitable or even make him fe...

So many words get lost. They leave the mouth and lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they ...

There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.

Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's...

It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use...

There is only one way to degrade mankind permanently and that is to destroy language.

i done forgot all abt wordsaint got no definitions

And most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another, being oft associate...

The object of poetic activity is essentially language: whatever his beliefs & convictions, the poet ...

If you were to make little fishes talk they would talk like whales.

We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts fo...

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

My faith is the grand drama of my life. I'm a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no ...

...at the end of the day there was nothing to be gained by reminding people that everything that had...

Sometimes I sensed that the books I read in rapid succession had set up some sort of murmur among th...

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can ch...

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...