Quotes About Words Don't Mean Anything

#1. A guy can tell a girl he's in love with her until he's blue in the face. Words don't mean anything to a woman when her head's full of doubt. You have to show her.

Colleen Hoover

#2. In a world of more brilliance words don't mean anything.

Mod Sun

#3. You're my brother."
"Those words don't mean anything where we're concerned. We aren't human. Their rules don't apply to us. Stupid laws about what DNA can be mixed with what. Hypocritical, really, considering. We're already experiments.

Cassandra Clare

#4. A man can tell a woman he's in love with her until he's blue in the face. Words don't mean anything to her when her head is full of doubt. You have to show her.

Colleen Hoover

#5. Rachel snatched her hand back. Sorry, I forgot the rules. Everything's a joke until it's not, and words don't mean anything until you want them to.

Kit Rocha

#6. Computer scientists have so far worked on developing powerful programming languages that make it possible to solve the technical problems of computation. Little effort has gone toward devising the languages of interaction.

Donald A. Norman

#7. If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may raise you to an imperial throne.

Miguel De Cervantes

#8. If there is an essence to this wordly life, then it is the basis of honesty [morality]. If you have little wealth but have honesty even then you will attain peace. And if you do not have honesty but lot of wealth even then restlessness will remain within.

Dada Bhagwan

#9. I want it all quickly 'cause I don't want God to stop and think and wonder if I'm getting more than my share.

Elizabeth Taylor

#10. I use the words you taught me. If they don't mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.

Samuel Beckett

#11. Words are so ridiculous sometimes. They don't really mean anything, but they're all I have.

Nyrae Dawn

#12. It seems so much of my time and my energy have been focused on making or trying to make other people love me. The unspoken belief was that if I could make myself lovable to others I would feel loved ... The truth is, I can only feel loved by others when I love myself.

Kimberly Kirberger

#13. There are a great many people who have a vested interest in maintaining the stupidity of the American public.

Gore Vidal

#14. Just because someone tells you that you will never amount to anything doesn't mean you have to prove them right. Prove them wrong by succeeding. There is no sweeter revenge than making someone eat their words. Even if they don't admit they're wrong about you, you will know.

Blaque Diamond

#15. To be a legend, you've either got to be dead or excessively old!

Christopher Lee

#16. If our history has taught us anything, it is that action for change directed against the external conditions of our oppressions is not enough.

Audre Lorde

#17. Change. Change. Change. Change ... change. Change. Chaaange. When you say words a lot they don't mean anything. Or maybe they don't mean anything anyway, and we just think they do.

Neil Gaiman

#18. Much theological discussion is wasted, not because the words used have no possible meaning, but because the people who use them don't mean anything by them.

Rosemary Haughton

#19. My world foreshortened, flattening into a credit card. Seen head on, things seemed merely skewed, but from the side the view was virtually meaningless
a one-dimensional wafer. Everything about me may have been crammed in there, but it was only plastic. Indecipherable except to some machine.

Haruki Murakami

#20. They're just words. And words alone don't really mean anything. It's what you feel and what you believe when you say them that matter.

Dana Reinhardt

#21. Words like 'custody' don't mean the same thing to him. I don't want us to own anything together. "You don't want to be happy," he accuses me.

Eula Biss

#22. Stand up for the things that are right. Try to talk things out instead of fight.

Robert Alan Aurthur

#23. I learnt the verbs of will, and had my secret;
The code of night tapped on my tongue;
What had been one was many sounding minded.

Dylan Thomas

#24. I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.

Warren Kole

#25. Sometimes I make things that people have very strong responses to. Whether that's art, I don't know. That's one of those words that doesn't mean anything. It's why I don't just use words.

Ben Katchor

#26. Where in motherfucking-shit-fucking-hell-fucking bullshit had that come from?

Madeline Sheehan

#27. The first book I did - the first successful book - was a kind of a travel book, and publishers in Britain encouraged me to do more.

Bill Bryson

#28. All the sutras in the world are useless. All the lectures of all the teachers don't really mean anything. They are only words. They point in a direction, that is their only use.

Frederick Lenz