Top 100 Quotes About Words
#1. Words are more powerful than perhaps anyone suspects, and once deeply engraved in a child's mind, they are not easily eradicated.
May Sarton
#2. Photography is a language more universal than words.
Minor White
#3. The wines are Saccone and Speed,' he had said. It was a merchant's observation. He had meant that even there, in the centre of Africa, the wine had come from the shippers on our east coast, and not from the people on the other side. But in my imagination I allowed the words to stand for pure bliss.
V.S. Naipaul
#5. Konstantin Levin did not like talking and hearing about the beauty of nature. Words for him took away the beauty of what he saw.
Leo Tolstoy
#6. Little self-denials, little honesties, little passing words of sympathy, little nameless acts of kindness, little silent victories over favorite temptations-these are the silent threads of gold which, when woven together, gleam out so brightly in the pattern of life that God approves.
Frederic Farrar
#7. Good advertising is a happy wedding of words and pictures, not a contest between them.
Leo Burnett
#8. I can hardly tell where I end, and he begins. I feel in his kiss that there is so much being said without words. It's as though he is claiming me back as his own.
J.S. Taylor
#9. It was curious what trying to speak English had done lately to his mind; it reminded him of studying poetry in college, words gaining and losing their meaning, overlapping with images, the curious echo of ideas behind the words people used.
Jess Walter
#10. He was trying to put loss into words, but loss is absence and will always defy expression.
John Connolly
#11. I could be worse, you know."
"How?" I asked, teasing.
"I mean, I have a work of calligraphy over my toilet that reads, 'Bathe yourself in the comfort of God's words,' Hazel. I could be way worse."
"Sounds unsanitary," I said.
John Green
#12. A mother explains a point to her children over and over again in different words.
Mahatma Gandhi
#13. I have never been given these words
in this way before. This small piece of
gospel, three parts hosanna, two parts
testimony, one part lamentation.
David Levithan
#14. Words could kill, sometimes, he thought then. Words could change everything. Lourdes
Douglas Clegg
#15. Steven Alan Green is ONE funny writer
Everything I read of yours makes me laugh and think - Not just the kind words about meBut the insights you have for the Comedy racket.You're Barbara Hershey, we are beaches.
Taylor Negron
#17. The words of confirmation into the Church are an invitation: 'Receive the Holy Ghost.' And that choice must be made not once, but every day, every hour, every minute.
Henry B. Eyring
#18. One of the aphorisms occurred to me now and I wrote it under the picture: "Fate and temperament are two words for one and the same concept." That was clear to me now.
Hermann Hesse
#19. Providing, meaning to a mass of unrelated needs, ideas, words and pictures - it is the designer's job to select and fit this material together and make it interesting.
Paul Rand
#20. And it strikes me that this is how writing anything is, really. A collaboration between you who give the words and they who take them and find meaning in them, or put music behind them, or turn them aside because they were not what was needed.
Ally Condie
#21. There are writers who pour out words, concepts that sound really important but that basically say nothing. I always tried to be as concise as possible, all to try and reach everyone, but especially the simple people, those who needed to be reached more than anyone else.
Chespirito
#22. As any reader knows, a printed page creates its own reading space, its own physical landscape in which the texture of the paper, the colour of the ink, the view of the whole ensemble acquire in the reader's hands specific meanings that lend tone and context to the words.
Alberto Manguel
#23. Words cannot express love. Only thoughts of love born in silence can do that.
Debasish Mridha
#24. But you know all about that, being sorry and having no words to say something when you know you should but you just can't
Heather Gudenkauf
#25. Mandy swears that barely a day goes by that he isn't asked by someone, somewhere, to recite Inigo Montoya's most famous words, in which he vows vengeance on behalf of his father. "And I never let them down," he says.
Cary Elwes
#26. I love you and no other man will ever say those words and mean them the way I do.-Loren Hale
Krista Ritchie
#27. Trout fishing is like any other sport. It is waste of words to try to give anyone who has never tried it any idea of what it means to land a five-pound trout on a gossamer leader.
Cornelia Parker
#28. Trouble of all kinds is voluble, and has plenty of words, but happiness was never written down.
Amelia Barr
#29. The history is important because science is a discipline deeply immersed in history. In other words, every time you perform an experiment in science or in medicine, what you're actually doing is you're answering someone, answering a question raised by someone in the past.
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#30. I like profanity - it's practically my mother tongue - but I try to use words that insult without demeaning, when I can.
Seanan McGuire
#32. China's Internet will continue to be policed and controlled, information filtered, sites prohibited, noncompliant search engines excluded, and sensitive search words disallowed. And where China goes, others, also informed by different values, are already and will follow.
Martin Jacques
#33. Women prefer to draw blood using words. It can cause just as much havoc, but it doesn't stain the carpet.
Karen Hawkins
#34. All the prayers in the Scripture you will find to be reasoning with God, not a multitude of words heaped together.
Stephen Charnock
#35. Lord but I dislike poetry. How can anyone remember words that aren't put to music?
Patrick Rothfuss
#36. Performing for the Dalai Lama - those are words I never imagined coming out of my mouth.
Joe Nichols
#37. Neither James Madison, for whom this lecture is named, nor any of the other Framers of the Constitution, were oblivious, careless, or otherwise unaware of the words they chose for the document and its Bill of Rights.
Diane Wood
#38. Words. Ever since chisel was taken to slate, it has been accepted that words can and do change the world.
LIFE Magazine
#39. When I start to write a song, I have the words and I have the melody, and then it's just a matter of making it to the end. I think if I have something that I could identify as a talent, it would be that I can finish a song. I kind of know intuitively where the melody should go.
Lou Barlow
#40. Has there ever been a more revealing moment this year? Let me just put this in fairly simple terms: Al Jazeera now broadcasts the words of Senator Durbin to the Mideast, certainly putting our troops in greater danger. No more needs to be said about the motives of liberals.
Karl Rove
#41. She turned you down because you are a simpering, pompous buffoon!" he muttered impatiently, feeling too angry at Mr Collins' words to rein in his private thoughts.
E. Bradshaw
#42. Love shouldn't make a beggar of one. I wouldn't want love if I had to beg for it, to barter or qualify it. And I should despise it if anyone ever begged for my love. Love is something that must be given
it can't be bought with words or pity, or even reason.
Jacqueline Susann
#43. Words are leaves, the substance consists of deeds, which are the true fruits of a good tree.
Elizabeth I
#44. ... Language shows a tendency for the words "good" and "stupid" to come [close] together... a hint of contempt... within these term[s]... [dictating that] the good man must always be unthreatening.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#45. We drank for another hour and I mutilated many of my most coherent thoughts by putting them into words.
Steve Toltz
#46. Something I'd like to be perfect at? ... Loving you,' I said. The words climbed from my mouth. 'I'd want to be perfect at loving you.
Markus Zusak
#47. How you speak and the words you use tell much about the image you choose to portray. Use language to build and uplift those around you.
Thomas S. Monson
#48. It is not light they need but strength, and strength permeates through the external balm of words and good example.
Vincent De Paul
#49. Some unspoken human communication is taking place on a hidden channel. I did not realize they communicated this much without words. I note that we machines are not the only species who share information silently, wreathed in codes.
Daniel H. Wilson
#50. You've marked me. Not just my heart with your love or my mind with your words, but more so my soul with everything you are. Everything you aspire to be. And everything you think we can be together.
K. Bromberg
#51. Mark my words, Michael Van Gerwen will knock Phil Taylor off his perch one day and be the best darts player on the planet.
Eric Bristow
#53. Alex landed on my carefully laid trap. "Pay up Prince Yummy." The nickname burst out of my mouth as I mentally screamed in slow motion, trying to stop my lips from uttering the words.
Nichole Chase
#54. The difference between me as Brian Warner or Marilyn Manson is just words. Same personality, sensibility, sense of humor, behavior. He is me.
Marilyn Manson
#55. The most perfect education ... is such an exercise of the understanding as is best calculated to strengthen the body and form the heart. Or, in other words, to enable the individual to attain such habits of virtue as will render it independent.
Mary Wollstonecraft
#56. By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings.
Leo Tolstoy
#57. We weave together the many skeins of our words,
Into poems and stories and books,
And the books are made so much more vivacious and colourful,
For all the care that is woven in along with the words.
Bree Verity
#58. You are beautiful in every single way. Words can't bring you down.
Christina Aguilera
#59. The New York Times reports that Moammar Gadhafi spent his last days hovering between defiance and delusion, surviving on rice and pasta. In other words, Gadhafi spent his last days as a sophomore in college. That's what I did.
Conan O'Brien
#60. Wood burns. Roots nourish. Branches shelter. Leaves heal." The words had become her mantra, her way of reigniting her courage when it started to falter. My life depends on a tree, she thought wryly as she cinched her pack.
Teresa Tsalaky
#61. Often, this has only meant a change in tyranny. In other words, one ruling class is replaced by another - sometimes by one that is more efficient and therefore still more capable of maintaining itself - while the poor and downtrodden remain poor and downtrodden or become even worse off.
Isaac Asimov
#62. There are many bad things in this world of ours, but the use of the word 'monetize' has to rank high among them. Also, 'incentivize.' Actually, all the '-ize' words, like 'contextualize' and 'utilize' and 'prioritize.' And - this is almost too horrible to type - 'juniorize.'
Susan Orlean
#63. What is human beauty based on? It is based on how much egoism one has. Gnani Purush (the enlightened one) is without egoism so his beauty is beyond words!
Dada Bhagwan
#64. Now the words are on paper and I can't take them back. Sometimes I hate ink. Its so permanent.
Jodi Meadows
#66. No matter what, just let them write every day,even if you're not sure what to teach, just let them write. They'll do fine." -Lisa Cleaveland's words for her long-term substitute teacher.
Lisa Cleaveland
#67. Arlene was one of a kind, a true friend when I needed one, a grande dame from the old school. She was the sweetest of old ladies, and I will miss her dearly. All of those things are true, but the words I choose are far more profound.
"She smelled like cookies," I whisper through tears.
David Arnold
#68. As a writer, even as a child, long before what I wrote began to be published, I developed a sense that meaning itself was resident in the rhythms of words and sentences and paragraphs ... The way I write is who I am, or have become ...
Joan Didion
#69. Even trained for years as they all had been in precision of language, what words could you use which would give another the experience of sunshine?
Lois Lowry
#70. Just what should a young man or woman know to be 'in the know'? Is there, in other words, some inside information, some special taboo, some real lowdown on life and existence that most parents and teachers either don't know or won't tell?
Alan Watts
#71. The right words are fire that burn through the most stagnant of hearts and minds
Ashley Lynn Dotson
#72. She could see the words Calvin Klein against the brown hair on the small of his back and it occurred to her that this was probably not at all what Calvin Klein had in mind.
David Nicholls
#73. I know a profound pattern humans deny with words even while their actions affirm it. They say they seek security and quiet, conditions they call peace. Even as they speak, they create seeds of turmoil and violence.
Frank Herbert
#74. It struck me at some point that the things I wanted to say had to be wordless. I had to renounce words in order to go deep into the practice of making materials and textures that would express what I'm trying to say more accurately.
Arca
#75. How many meetings have you been in where the first dozen or so slides are full of words, and the person stands up there and repeats the words?
Eric Schmidt
#77. As I spoke, I realized I'd held these words in for so long and so tightly that I felt the space they left empty once released. It was vast enough that I could think of nothing to follow them.
Sarah Dessen
#78. To build a positive attitude you must take some deliberate action. You must be responsible for your thoughts, words, and actions.
John Patrick Hickey
#79. When you ask for patience, what you get is a line at the bank. In other words, life gives you the people, places, and situations that are going to allow you to once and for all develop what it is you need.
Tracy McMillan
#80. we that were wood
when that wide wood was
in a physical Universe playing with
words
bark be my limbs my hair be leaf
Bride be my bow my lyre my quiver
Susan Howe
#81. He mouths something. Six words. Six words that seem too impossible to be true. Six words that bleed hope into my soul. Six words. You're not crazy. I love you.
Lauren Hammond
#82. Magic Words"
"Silly words cause trills
because they're ludicrous and funny.
Happy words paint endless smiles
and swallow troubles whole.
Thoughtful words are thus
because they make the day feel sunny.
But hurtful words are such
that pierce the heart and weigh the soul.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#83. I often find human behavior amusing. Like having a full refrigerator of food to eat yet buying fast food instead. If you learn to conquer the two big "N" words. Niceties vs Necessities. You might actually have some funds for the hard times that come.
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#85. Hope, Joy, Youth, Peace, Rest, Life, Dust, Ashes, Waste, Want, Ruin, Despair, Madness, Death, Cunning, Folly, Words, Wigs, Rags, Sheepskin, Plunder, Precedent, Jargon, Gammon, and Spinach.
Charles Dickens
#86. My dad, like many Southern men, is this very emotionally expressive person who isn't as articulate in words about his feelings as he is with breaking a chair or something like that.
Lucy Alibar
#87. I have no wit, no words, no tears;
My heart within me like a stone
Is numb'd too much for hopes or fears;
Look right, look left, I dwell alone;
I lift mine eyes, but dimm'd with grief
No everlasting hills I see;
My life is in the falling leaf:
O Jesus, quicken me.
Christina Rossetti
#88. Yes, words were superior; they maintained a superior control; they touched without your touching; they were at once the bait, the hook, the line, the pole, and the water in between.
William H Gass
#89. Just remember the words of Patrick Henry - 'Kill me or let me live.'
Bill Peterson
#90. Animals understand your love and instinct without any words. Often times, humans understand neither you nor your love.
Debasish Mridha
#91. It is over, isn't it?" Trustingly, he seemed to be waiting for her to tell him, as if she would know. As if hearing himself say it meant nothing; he had a dubious attitude toward his own words; they didn't become real, not until she agreed.
"It's over," she said.
Philip K. Dick
#92. Pardon the way that I stare, there's nothing else to compare. The sight of you leaves me weak, there are no words left to speak.
Frankie Valli
#93. Character is not something one wears on their sleeve, shoulder or badge on their chest. It resides in the core of ones being and his displayed by actions and words.
John Paul Warren
#94. Falling from the sky like the rain,
And I fly and sing like the little birds...,
Movements that are not in vain,
Everything has a life made of words.
Ana Claudia Antunes
#95. Positive words are the glue that holds relationships together.
Tom Rath
#97. Love needs no words.
You had me before you even spoke
Vi Keeland
#98. Once upon a time the fairy tales begin. But then they end and often you don't know really what has happened, what was meant to happen, you only know what you've been told, what the words suggest.
Joyce Carol Oates
#99. Man must get his thoughts, words and actions out of this vast moral jungle. We are not predators. We are, hopefully, more than instinctive killers and selfish brutes. Why take such a dim view of our potentialities and capabilities?
H. Jay Dinshah
#100. Music conveys moods and images. Even in opera, where plots deal with the structure of destiny, it's music, not words, that provides power.
Marcel Marceau
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