Words Diminish Quotes

#1. The most important things are hardest to say, because words diminish them.

Stephen King

#2. I don't like pictures in books. I feel that the pictures diminish the words, and the words diminish the pictures, and it doesn't work.

Paul Auster

#3. Words are how people think. When you misuse words, you diminish your ability to think clearly and truthfully.

Margaret Heffernan

#4. There are many Africas.

Beryl Markham

#5. When words cease to cling close to things, kingdoms fall, empires wane and diminish.

Ezra Pound

#6. While they argued, the pain blazed on. My blood boiled in my veins. Why was I doing this? Was he worth all of this pain? Why should I care if he lived or died?
"I love him." The words came out as a whisper, but they seemed to diminish the heat. I felt stronger and more sure of myself.

Heather James

#7. Huh, when did being a grown up ever mean owt?

Brian Sellars

#8. How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.

Maurice Maeterlinck

#9. A few words of Hindi appear here or there, but it's all Urdu. I feel that if the popular culture, which is what Hindi films are, uses Urdu, it's not going to diminish.

Ismail Merchant

#10. I try to create some stupid entertainment for really smart people that they don't feel too stupid watching. In 'Xanadu,' the biggest laugh was a reference to Achilles.

Douglas Carter Beane

#11. His toes groped out awkwardly as if they were odds and ends hastily collected from some discount charnel house. As a child, they'd curled down in sleek harmony. Where had his good toes run off to?

Scott M. Morris

#12. It will be politics that determines the material welfare of future generations: the pace at which we advance toward "our destination of economic bliss," andnperhaps, whether we continue to advance at all.

Eban Goodstein

#13. A man is but his state of mind.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#14. When you use words loosely, without care and consideration, you erode trust in yourself and in what you're saying. When you squander words, you diminish your power.

Margaret Heffernan

#15. Somehow suspension sounded way worse than detention. Detention happens to everybody. Suspension, though - that's for the sociopaths.
I wasn't a hundred percent sure I was ready to take that leap.

Katie Alender

#16. That's all any writing could ever be. Words on paper that burn intensely when read and then diminish over time.

Tim Seeley

#17. Opponents confront us continually, but actually there is no opponent there. Enter deeply into an attack and neutralize it as you draw that misdirected force into your own sphere.

Morihei Ueshiba

#18. Newspeak was designed not to extend but to DIMINISH the range of thought, and this purpose was indirectly assisted by cutting the choice of words down to a minimum.

Anonymous

#19. Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.

Isabelle Eberhardt

#20. I sympathize afresh with the mighty Voltaire, who, when badgered on his deathbed and urged to renounce the devil, murmured that this was no time to be making enemies.

Christopher Hitchens

#21. Potter wasn't such an unusual name. He was sure there were lots of people called Potter who had a son called Harry. Come to think of it, he wasn't even sure his nephew was called Harry. He'd never even seen the boy. It might have been Harvey. Or Harold.

J.K. Rowling

#22. After or before any happiness, someone must cry.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#23. That must have been the character of the man.

Swami Vivekananda