Words Quotes

Land and water are not really separate things, but they are separate words, and we perceive through words.

~ David Rains Wallace

Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.

~ Samuel Johnson

I was on the point of breaking off the conversation, for nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Here is the time for the sayable, here is its home.Speak and attest. More than everthe things we can live with are falling away,and ousting them, filling their place, a will with no image.Will beneath crusts which readily crackwhenever the act inside swells and seeks new borders.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

If you observe the pace of my breaths, you won't need to listen to my words.

~ Nema Al-Araby

I have no special desire to go crawl around in caves, but I really like the word [spelunking] and want to use it in conversation. I do a lot of things just to use words I like.

~ Evan Mandery

Words never fail. We hear them, we read them; they enter into the mind and become part of us for as long as we shall live. Who speaks reason to his fellowmen bestows it upon them. Who mouths inanity disorders thought for all who listen. There must be some minimum allowable dose of inanity beyond which the mind cannot remain reasonable. Irrationality, like buried chemical waste, sooner or later must seep into all the tissues of thought.

~ Richard Mitchell

There are things which couldn't be expressed by the words,when you've mastered certain lesson for more than 30 years.

~ Toba Beta

Words are useless. Use your eyes to say a million things.

~ Gabriella Jording

He only had the imperfect medium of words.

~ Sara Gruen

Talk like an ambassador (Eph 4:29-30). 1)Consider the person (only what is helpful for building others up)2) Consider the problem (according to their needs)3) Consider the process (that it may benefit those who listen)

~ Timothy S. Lane

No man is exempt from saying silly things, the mischief is to say them deliberately.

~ Michel De Montaigne

[W]e talk about the tyranny of words, but we like to tyrannise over them too; we are fond of having a large superfluous establishment of words to wait upon us on great occasions; we think it looks important, and sounds well. As we are not particular about the meaning of our liveries on state occassions, if they be but fine and numerous enough, so, the meaning or necessity of our words is a secondary consideration, if there be but a great parade of them. And as individuals get into trouble by making too great a show of liveries, or as slaves when they are too numerous rise against their masters, so I think I could mention a nation that has got into many great difficulties, and will get into many greater, from maintaining too large a retinue of words.

~ Charles Dickens

The pages and the words are my world, spread out before your eyes and for your hand to touch. Vaguely, I can see you face looking down into me, as I look back. Do you see my eyes?

~ Markus Zusak

So …” Jack clears his throat. “We …”Is Jack Coombs at a loss for words? I guess we don’t have to worry about the performance since the world is clearly going to end.

~ Elizabeth Eulberg

The wise man reveals more than words spoken.

~ Toba Beta

All things human begin with words.

~ David Rains Wallace

Jess couldn't stop spitting out words, because they were words like blades to hurt, and if she swallowed them, she'd be scraped hollow.

~ Helen Oyeyemi

...the words make our silences easier--they're the current that runs under them.

~ Sue Miller

I always knew that words are suitcases with false bottoms.

~ Hans Keilson

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

~ Ernest Hemingway

Toppling sounds like it jumped from a tall building and landed gracefully on is g.

~ Edmond Manning

I collect words--they are sweets in the mouth of sound.

~ Sally Gardner

He lost himself in the words and images conjured in his mind and for a while forgot ... He found himself flying among stars and planets ...

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Words can be medicines; they can also be poisons. Words can heal; they can also kill... It all depends on how, when and where they are use and against whom! Let us not abuse our words. It's a misuse of the tongue!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

He walked, groping for a sentence that hung in his mind as an empty shape. He could neither fill it or dismiss it.

~ Ayn Rand

The words sounded like a mournful incantation.

~ Dan Simmons

The great wheel of fire of ancient wisdom, silence and word engendering the myth of the origin, human action engendering the epic voyage toward the other; historical violence revealing the tragic flaw of the hero who must then return to the land of origin; myth of death and renewal and silence from which new words and images will arise, keeps on turning in spite of the blindness of purely lineal thought.

~ Carlos Fuentes

It's the words we whisper to ourselves that make us who we are.

~ Marty Rubin

Sky, wait.” The way his voice wraps around my name makes me wish the only word in his entire vocabulary way Sky.

~ Colleen Hoover

Our own place is mall perhaps, but when your old man is eaten by his own shadow, you realise that maybe in every house, something so savage and sad and brilliant is standing up, without the world even seeing it.Maybe that's what these pages of words are about:Bringing the world to the window.

~ Markus Zusak

My wandering imagination never gives up on me and always finds ways to explore what my emotions entail.

~ Chimnese Davids

For Hood's sake,' the foreigner muttered. 'What's wrong with words?' 'With words,' said Redmask, turning away, 'meanings change.' 'Well,' Anaster Toc said, following as Redmask made his way back to his army's camp,.. 'that is precisely the point. That's their value - their ability to adapt -' 'Grow corrupt, you mean. The Letheri are masters at corrupting words, their meanings. They call war peace, they call tyranny liberty. On which side of the shadow you stand decides a word's meaning. Words are the weapons used by those who see others with contempt. A contempt which only deepens when they how those others are deceived and made into fools because they choose to believe. Because in their naivety they thought the meaning of a word was fixed, immune to abuse.

~ Steven Erikson

Forms disappear, words remain, to signify the impossible.

~ Augusto Roa Bastos

The sign stopped me-- or rather, this text stopped me. Words are my profession; I seized these and demanded that they explain themselves, that they cease to be ambiguous.

~ Daniel Quinn

Don't be ridiculous, please.'The most insulting words in the world!

~ L.m. Montgomery

Somewhere embedded in every ordinary book are the five or six words for which really all the rest will be written.

~ G.k. Chesterton

If I had my life over again[, ] I'd have thought more about words. And thought about them earlier.

~ Enid Bagnold

Words are only words

~ Jude Morgan

The dictionary is an ossuary of empty words.

~ Augusto Roa Bastos