Top 100 Words Are Like Quotes
#1. Words are like gems to me ... imagine yourself walking through a very shallow stream and picking up beautiful stones that catch your eye ... that's what names are like for me.
Anne Rice
#2. Sometimes words are like water and lips as strong as wine.
Dave Guerrero
#3. Words are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.
Samuel Butler
#4. My words are like Mummy: butterflies trapped inside a net.
Holly Bodger
#5. For human words are like shadows, and shadows are incapable of explaining light and between shadow and light there is the opaque body from which words are born..
Jose Saramago
#6. Words are like leaves, ... like people really, fond of their own society.
Jasper Fforde
#7. Words are like harpoons. Once they go in, they are very hard to pull out.
Fred Hoyle
#8. Words are like knives ... If you use it the wrong way it transforms into a bad weapon.
Gosho Aoyama
#9. A poet's words are like mortar to the bricks of society.
Jason E. Hodges
#10. Words are like pillows: if put correctly they ease pain.
James Hillman
#11. Gracious words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the body.
Deborah Palumbo
#12. The trouble is, sometimes words are like arrows. Once you shoot them, there's no going back.
Jess Rothenberg
#13. Words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder.
Jodi Picoult
#14. Words are like eggs dropped from great heights. You can't ever put the pieces back together after they hit home.
Amaleka McCall
#15. Words are like arrows, Arianne. Once loosed, you cannot call them back. - Areo Hotah
George R R Martin
#16. And when we are with Alex, I might as well not be there. They speak in a language of whispers and giggles and secrets; their words are like a fairy-tale tangle of thorns, which place a wall between us.
Lauren Oliver
#17. The Bible is no ordinary book. The words are like medicine to your soul, and it has the power to change your life!
Joyce Meyer
#18. In the mouths of many men soft words are like roses that soldiers put into the muzzles of their muskets on holidays.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#19. My business is words. Words are like labels,
or coins, or better, like swarming bees.
Anne Sexton
#20. I will be generous with my love today. I will sprinkle compliments and uplifting words everywhere I go. I will do this knowing that my words are like seeds and when they fall on fertile soil, a reflection of those seeds will grow into something greater.
Steve Maraboli
#21. Words are like fish and you catch them and you get to keep them forever." "And
T. Kingfisher
#22. Wise words are like seeds. The more you scatter them, the more they will grow into infinite gardens of knowledge.
Suzy Kassem
#23. Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.
Joseph Joubert
#24. Words are like spices. Too many is worse than too few.
Joan Aiken
#26. Silence is a prince's friend, the captain had heard him tell his daughter once. Words are like arrows, Arianne. Once loosed, you cannot call them back.
Anonymous
#28. In a marriage, words are like rain. And the land of a marriage is filled with dry washes and arroyos that can become raging rivers in almost the wink of an eye. The therapists believe in talk, but most of them are either divorced or queer. It's silence that is a marriage's best friend.
Stephen King
#30. Words are like feathers...can you see that? It is so easy for them to come out, and they scatter on the wind before you know it. But like feathers, our words are not easy to gather back up again. Once out of your mouth, you simply CANNOT take them all back.
Rebecca Musser
#31. Words are like untying a corset - you can move into this great space with them.
Ali Smith
#32. Words are like butter Rolling off my lips Cut like a knife And now I'm sinking battleships
Geri Halliwell
#33. Words are like the delicate stitches in the dress you wear, holding the fabric of the garmet together. Without them, the dress and the world are nothing but barren cloth
Lisa Mantchev
#34. Words are like diamonds. Polish them too much, and all you get are pebbles.
Bryce Courtenay
#35. Words are like wild birds - they will come when they wish, not when they are bidden.
Joyce Carol Oates
#36. Before you speak, my friend, remember, a spiritual man contain his anger. Angry words are like slap in de face.
Chris Abani
#37. The light of humane minds is perspicuous words, but by exact definitions first snuffed, and purged from ambiguity, reason is the pace ... And, on the contrary, metaphors, and senseless ambiguous words are like ignes fatui; and reasoning upon them is wandering amongst innumerable absurdities.
Thomas Hobbes
#38. In Sanskrit words are like living beings; depending on context, circumstance and environment their mood varies and meaning differs.
Amit Ray
#39. Words are like shards of glass. By themselves they're worthless; however, when placed together in just the right way, they can become great works of art.
Leigh M. Lane
#40. My words are like the stars that never change.
Chief Seattle
#41. Spoken words are like seeds that we plant which will eventually grow into something sweet or bitter. Our actions in this life are seeds we're planning for the other life promised by Allah.
Shems Friedlander
#42. Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound,
Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.
Alexander Pope
#43. Words are like people, I think. Put too many of them too close together and they cause trouble.
Carolee Dean
#44. English words are like prisms. Empty, nothing inside, and still they make rainbows.
Denis Johnson
#45. Why can't music be magic? Aren't spells just words you repeat? And what are songs? Lyrics that play over and over again. The words are like a formula." All
Silvia Moreno-Garcia
#47. Words are like planets, each with its own gravitational pull.
Kenneth Burke
#48. Your words are like mirrors.
They may cut, but they also reflect.
Timothy Joshua
#49. Wise words are like arrows flung at your forehead. What do you do? Why, you duck of course.
Steven Erikson
#50. To me, words are like stickpins. I can throw a word at you and it will bounce right off your body. But if I take that little stickpin and wire it to the back of an iron bar called human emotion, I can put that thing right through your heart.
Tony Robbins
#51. The Claw smiled. You have begun to learn, Paran. Never be too easy with the knowledge you possess. Words are like coin - it pays to hoard.
Steven Erikson
#52. Words are not truth. Truth is like the moon, and words are like my finger. I can point to the moon with my finger, but my finger is not the moon. Do you need my finger to see the moon?
Huineng
#53. Dream sweet, Lilly flower," his words are like tiny pins pricking all over my skin.
Amie Nichols
#54. you clutter my mind
thoughts of you, thoughts of me with you
thoughts that keep me from rest
that ull me to sleep at night
your words are like butter
they're smooth and they're rich
and they make the bitter bits better
Madisen Kuhn
#55. Words are like breath," she said, "you say them and they're gone. But writing traps them.
Bernard Cornwell
#56. Words are like coin - it pays to hoard."
"Until you die on a bed of gold," Paran said.
Steven Erikson
#57. Words are like food. They contain information that either releases and liberates and creates possibilities and development or locks you into unhealthy patterns you can't change.
Thorbjorg Hafsteinsdottir
#58. Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes.
Cher
#59. My words are like a ship, and the sea is their meaning. Come to me and I will take you to the depths of spirit.
Rumi
#60. Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.
Anne Bradstreet
#61. His words are like the sound of a needle dragging across a record. A sinking, sickening feeling washes over me. This is why you should never, ever get your hopes up. This is why you should see the glass as half empty. So, when the whole things spills, you aren't as devastated.
Emily Giffin
#62. My words are like axe don't dare to interferes with your finger.
Kartik Mehta
#63. Words are like Spices
Some are mellow
Some are sweet
Some are spicy
And some are bitter
Don't let the bitter ones ruin your palate for the wonderful tastes
in life that are coming your way!
Leeza Donatella
#64. Ann turns to me. I know she's waiting for some hint of kindness-a kiss, an embrace, even a smile. But I can't muster any of it.
"You'll make a fine governess." My words are like a slap.
"I know," she answers, a slap of her own.
Libba Bray
#65. Words are like swords, if you use them the wrong way, it'll turn into ugly weapons.
Gosho Aoyama
#66. Words are like leaves blowing in the wind, they're hard to hold on to; but once you have it never let go.
Kris Harte
#67. His words are like seawater to the shipwrecked: I'm tempted to drink them in, and at the same time, they feel dangerously deceptive.
Kerry Kletter
#68. Some people will say that words like scum and rotten are wrong for Objective Journalism
which is true, but they miss the point. It was the built-in blind spots of the Objective rules and dogma that allowed Nixon to slither into the White House in the first place.
Hunter S. Thompson
#69. [...] it seems you don't understand that words are the labels we stick on things, not the things themselves, you'll never know what the things are really like, nor even what their real names are, because the names you gave them are just that, the names you gave them [...]
Jose Saramago
#70. Trying to write about love is ultimately like trying to have a dictionary represent life. No matter how many words there are, there will never be enough.
David Levithan
#71. When you read a book, the neurons in your brain fire overtime, deciding what the characters are wearing, how they're standing, and what it feels like the first time they kiss. No one shows you. The words make suggestions. Your brain paints the pictures.
Meg Rosoff
#72. Words define us,' Mom continued, as I struggled to make my clumsy marks look like her elegant script. 'We must protect our knowledge and pass it on whenever we can. If we are ever to become a society again, we must teach others how to remain human.
Julie Kagawa
#73. Painting is ... a richer language than words ... Painting operates through signs which are not abstract and incorporeal like words. The signs of painting are much closer to the objects themselves.
Jean Dubuffet
#74. You keep saying words like crazy and insane and risky, but Vera, the best things in life are all of those things. You can't reap big rewards if you don't take big risks.
Rachel Higginson
#75. One personal tip that my trainer gave me was, "Don't take things personally. People are calling on the worst days of their lives and you're their first point of contact. Be like a duck and let the water roll off your back." I live by those words when I'm at work.
Cameron West
#76. I sometimes feel I would like to do crazy things with 'Endgame,' where someone says something, but the words, instead of being spoken, are written words projected out of their mouth.
Simon McBurney
#77. Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating ... but there are other ways to understanding.
Patrick Rothfuss
#78. Words, like acts, become stale when they are repeated.
Ellen Glasgow
#79. Comedians are innately programmed to pick up oddities like mispronounced words, upside-down books on a shelf, and generally undetectable mistakes in everyday life.
Bob Newhart
#80. Zarathustra: Do you have words? Do your words belong to you?
Giannina: No, my answer is no. I have no property in the dictionary. Words are anonymous like the disenfranchised masses that haven't been weighed - or named - or framed. My words belong to those who don't belong.
Giannina Braschi
#81. I would think for hours how strange it was that some parts of words are silent, just like some parts of our lives. Did the people who wrote the dictionaries decide to mirror language to our lives, or did it just happen that way?
Rene Denfeld
#82. His words come out like a growl, "You are mine.
Aleatha Romig
#83. I do so like all-encompassing words. Verb, adjective, noun. Yes, you are shitted.
Kim Harrison
#84. I know what I think, but words in the head are like voices under water.
Jeanette Winterson
#85. Those beautiful words we said to one another are hidden in the secret heart of heaven. One day, like the rain, they will pour our love story all over the world.
Jalaluddin Rumi
#86. We are surrounded by the dry thorns of the Inquisition on all four sides; throwing around words burning like fire is the shortest way to one's grave!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#87. Would that my hands were meant to build. I would know what to say. What to do. Maybe in another life I would have been that man. In this one, my words, like my hands, are clumsy. All they can do is cut. All they can do is break.
Pierce Brown
#88. I don't feel like I have to use big words or theories to get my point across. People are like, "Whoa. That's crazy" and make it into this crazy thing.
Jhene Aiko
#89. Be good to people only if you like anal sex.
That's how kind people are.
Honeya
#90. The Humans is a laugh-and-cry book. Troubling, thrilling, puzzling, believable and impossible. Matt Haig uses words like a tin-opener. We are the tin.
Jeanette Winterson
#91. Lahiri's characters, just like people all around us, are constantly telling each other important things, but not necessarily in words.
Will Schwalbe
#92. Lonnie's monotonous speech gives him an advantage, the same advantage foreigners have: his words are not worn out. It is like a code tapped through a wall. Sometimes he asks me straight out: do you love me? and it is possible to tap back: yes, I love you.
Walker Percy
#93. Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.
Cyril Connolly
#94. You like lies?" Shallan asked. "Good lies," Pattern said. "That lie. Good lie." "What makes a lie good?" Shallan asked, taking careful notes, recording Pattern's exact words. "True lies." "Pattern, those two are opposites." "Hmmmm . . . Light makes shadow. Truth makes lies. Hmmmm.
Brandon Sanderson
#95. If we sometimes lie and sometimes tell the truth, no one can be certain what they are hearing at any given time. Like yin and yang, truth and lies are inseparable, each containing a seed of the other, no words are ever entirely true or entirely untrue.
Chloe Thurlow
#96. There are truths found in books or films when some writer puts exactly the right words together and it's like their pen turned sword and pierced you right through the heart.
Susan Juby
#97. Words are useless without action. Stop fantasizing and just DO it. Be a "game changer" or get played like an idiot.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#98. Like a fine flower, beautiful to look at but without scent, fine words are fruitless in a man who does not act in accordance with them.
Gautama Buddha
#99. There are times when words are extra, like raindrops on drenched grass. There are times for holding. He held her ...
Bud Macfarlane Jr.
#100. Poetry is composing, you are writing words to move the world like music.
Atticus
