Words Quotes

Words, Natasha thinks, should behave more like units of measure. A meter is a meter is a meter. Words shouldn't be allowed to change meanings. Who decides that the meaning has changed, and when? Is there an in-between time when the word means both things? Or a time when the word doesn't mean anything at all?

~ Nicola Yoon

My Words Are For The Ones Who Get It, Rest Forget It !

~ Syed Sharukh

Many confuse things with their names. This is a mistake. A name is only a word and a word will never be the thing itself. And, yet, names – as words – have power, not inherently, but because we give it to them.

~ Roselynn Cannes

But I am a storyteller, and that involves language, for me the English language, that wonderfully rich, complex, and ofttimes confusing tongue. When language is limited, I am thereby diminished, too.

~ Madeleine L'engle

Do not give much of your fears to the knife that cuts to bring out blood. Instead, fear the unseen knife that cuts deeper than the knife you see! The unseen knife that inflicts pain in the heart and leaves its indelible footprints on our minds! The unseen knife that is sharper enough to either unite or make all things fall apart. Fear this knife: words! It can make or mar you greatly or badly!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I might not say it, but I obviously show you how I feel,” she says. “Why do the words have to be so important?”“They just are,” he says, standing up and brushing off the back of his jeans. “Not because you’re saying them, but because you’re not.

~ Jennifer E. Smith

Mark My Words, My Words In Other Words Are Not Just Words.

~ Syed Sharukh

When words lose their meaning and expression, silence is the only language that heart follows, speaks and celebrates.

~ Akshay Vasu

To have made a coat of words and cloaked yourself in it.

~ Idra Novey

Many words and expressions which only a matter of decades ago were considered so distastefully explicit that, were they merely to be breathed in public, the perpetrator would be shunned, barred from polite society, and in some extreme cases shot through the lungs, are now thought to be very healthy and proper, and their use in everyday speech and writing is seen as evidence of a well-adjusted, relaxed and totally un****ed-up personality

~ Douglas Adams

He didn't speak much but the little he said kept me busy.

~ Peter Akinti

With every line he teaches her, the world grows a little wider. She had never known before how words could sing,how a turn of phrase could unlock a window in her mind.

~ Rosamund Hodge

Words tell us what we, as a society, believe the world to be

~ Alberto Manguel

You are lucky to be one of those people who wishes to build sand castles with words, who is willing to create a place where your imagination can wander.

~ Anne Lamott

Watch your mouth: The language we use creates the reality we experience.

~ Michael Hyatt

That felt meaningful somehow, like the words on the pages ached for him to know their sorrow.

~ Stephanie Kuehn

Between the lines thoughts were felt. In a way words could never read.

~ Maira Cheeda

I don't have kids or even that many friends, but if I did, I'd want my lasting impression on them to be this: Every life matters, but never one more than another. Sometimes silence holds more meaning than words. And love ... it's infinitely impossible to define, but unequivocally, without any doubt, the reason we are here.

~ Jewel E. Ann

Sleeping in the simple small cottage rather than hotels... and under the billion stars is one of the breathtaking experience... pause, breath, nothingness moment is what gives meaning to my busy existence, that life is felt in silence, in that moment when what you see before you can no longer be conveyed with words...

~ El Fuego

Why must we be so restricted by language, these ruined tongues! These twenty-six letters- how can that explain this agony? How could we ever endeavor to prove what we are here for- through such combinations? Death is just a word someone invented for what happens at the end of a person’s life. It’s only a word: if there was no word for it we wouldn’t be so worried!

~ Annie Fisher

In the guise of frankness many people ruin their world by saying unpleasant things to friends and family. The bad words make them a bad world.

~ Girdhar Joshi

Books are something which by the words breaths when you stop writing it stops it's own proccess = breathing..

~ Deyth Banger

It cost nothing to be nice.

~ Anonymous

I like to quote Shakespeare. But in this case, the rapper Eminem said it best: Words are a motherfucker.

~ Jillian Keenan

Words are themselves organisms, ...

~ Ali Smith

That (labyrinth)...became a world whose rules I lived by, and I understood the moral of mazes: sometimes you have to turn your back on your goal to get there, sometimes you're farthest away when you're closest, sometimes the only way is the long one. After that careful walking and looking down, the stillness was deeply moving...It was breathtaking to realize that in the labyrinth, metaphors and meanings could be conveyed spatially. That when you seem farthest from your destination is when you suddenly arrive is a very pat truth in words, but a profound one to find with your feet.

~ Rebecca Solnit

When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in a rather scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.

~ Lewis Carroll

Words were stories in themselves.

~ Ali Smith

sometimes the little words we put down are signs of the greater ones inside.

~ Topsygift

Normally, words are sentfrom the brain towards the mouth, and somewhere along the line you take a moment to checkthem, see that they are actually the ones you ordered and that they’re nicely wrapped, beforeyou bundle them on their way towards your palate and out into the fresh air.But when you’re caught up in the flow of things, the checking part of your mind can falldown on the job.

~ Hugh Laurie

29. Most loneliness results from insulation rather than isolation. In other words, we are lonely because we insulate ourselves, not because others isolate us.

~ James C. Dobson

Distraction is reading written word and when I seek to make distraction I write the words I wish to be enveloped in.

~ Anastasia Bolinder

If words are to enter men's hearts and bear fruit, they must be the right words shaped cunningly to pass men's defenses and explode silently and effectually within their minds.

~ J.b. Phillips

I still CONTINUE SAYING Honest... and Honesty.. sounds like addiction to words.

~ Deyth Banger

38. “A wet bird never flies at night.” (My grandfather said that to me when I was a child and warned me not to forget it. I remember his words but never did figure out what he meant!)

~ James C. Dobson

Noise in the form of words', that’s what life is about.

~ Kaoutar Chahbane

Your words are very powerful and what you say matters, keep them positive and powerful.

~ Farshad Asl

Those who don't understand your silence,Will never understand your words

~ Jordan Hoechlin

Do u sometimes feel dumb or duffer are inadequate words to describe some people?How about DUMFER?

~ Everskeptic

Influence is when you are not the one talking and yet your words fill the room, when you are absent and yet your presence is felt everywhere.

~ Temitope Ibrahim