Words Quotes

We poor tellers of tales have our moments too, it seems. Like great generals sitting upon horses upon the tops of hills and throwing troops into the arena, we throw the little soldier words into our battles.

~ Sherwood Anderson

Gracious words nourish the soul.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

When you have the grace speak, declare sacred-utterances.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

A bad word triggers another in your opponent. Be ready to reap what you plant

~ Bangambiki Habyarimana

Should’ is my all time least favoriteword! It’s this sort of guilt inducing, finger wagging word that we use to beat up ourselves andothers.

~ Frank Beddor

Should' is my all time least favoriteword! It’s this sort of guilt inducing, finger wagging word that we use to beat up ourselves andothers.

~ Frank Beddor

Should' is my all time least favorite word. It’s this sort of guilt inducing, finger wagging word that we use to beat up others and ourselves.

~ Frank Beddor

When words have vanished, when daily habits have extinguished emotional exchange, only killing silence remains and indifference takes over. ( Words had disappeared )

~ Erik Pevernagie

Words have less substance than air. Don't tell me about your zealous dreams, your firm convictions, your profound love―show me.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

It’s weird how much things can change in only a few minutes. With those three words, “I don’t remember,” our entire futures were changed. Not just for me and Brooklyn, but for the little girl, and Denver, and Jenna and Blaze and – darn, I’m getting ahead of myself again. So much for trying to be dramatic.

~ C.b. Cook

There’s a word for the first blush of youthful love free of desire. For longing to be with someone so much you would rather throw yourself to the tides than be without them. For the stale but steady relationship between faithful members of an arranged marriage. For how to feel about someone you thought was everything but ended up never feeling the same way about you. For the poison left over when you love someone and it ends so badly you cannot release the feelings. For the love between a mother and her children, a father and his children, a grandmother and her progeny, the love between two dear friends, the love that is the first building block of a lifelong affair. There’s even a word for a love so devastating nothing before or after is ever seen the same.

~ Kiersten White

Anything you say at this point cannot be trusted. You know I am well and truly angry, so you are in the grip of fear. This means I cannot trust any word you say, as it comes from fear. You are clever, and charming, and a liar. I know you can bend the world with your words. So I will not listen.

~ Patrick Rothfuss

The truth of a myth, your Honor, is not its words but its patterns.

~ David Mitchell

Silly words, silly words, silly awful hurting words.

~ Ray Bradbury

Is not most talkingA crazed defense of a crumbling fort?I thought we came hereTo surrender in Silence.

~ Hafiz

I am surprised to see how much I have written; with stories even a page can take me hours, but the truth seems to flow out as fast as I can get it down. But words are very inadequate – anyway, my words are.

~ Dodie Smith

Keep this in mind: it is our religion to praise life. The word life” is the king of words. The king­word surrounded by other grand words. The word adventure”! The word future”! And the word hope”! By the way, do you know the code name for the atomic bomb they dropped on Hiroshima? Little Boy”! That's a genius, the fellow who invented that code! They couldn't have dreamed up a better one. Little boy, kid, tyke, tot - there's no word that's more tender, more touching, more loaded with future.

~ Milan Kundera

...why, when people write words do they capitalize “I”? Why not capitalize “You” too? For You are as important as I am. It’s hard for me to understand the human ways.

~ Kate Mcgahan

I like playing around with the words, I love it when I feel like I've picked the exact right word to describe whatever it is I'm trying to describe.

~ Margaret Peterson Haddix

Words that should cross your lips with ease: thank you, love you, sorry, please.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Words, he knew, could scar.

~ Jodi Picoult

Let your life speak volumes holding your words accountable, lest you become just a talking head.

~ Sanjo Jendayi

When I try to achieve greatness, it spits on me the night before.

~ Monroe Ariel

Write like you speak with the 'rhythms of human speech,' as William Zinsser said, and in as few words as possible. Use action verbs to carry water.

~ Sandra E. Lamb

... but I could also write about love. How a hand can silence thousands of voices and how someone’s smell can make you feel at home even though you’re a million miles away fromhomeand have you ever hurt someone you love? Because you’re angry. Because you’re disappointed and sad and you just really wanted to love and be loved in returnbut life got in the way and you both said things that should never be said and you’re angry but don’t know how to. Because you still feel this strange love for him, but you’re also fucking angry and you want to hit him, but then hug him because hurting him is hurting yourself, and then hit him again because you’re angry! and so you fall on your knees because you’re hopeless to yourself and your own emotionsand that’s love, my friend.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

But without a reader, a story is only half complete. It's like blueprints that never get built; like a swimming pool without water. The foundation's there, but it's useless. Without a reader, the words just sit on the page, waiting to come alive in someone's imagination.

~ Jodi Picoult

How strange and ironic it is- all the words i long to sayare lost in words.

~ Sanober Khan

On the single strand of wire strung to bring our house electricity, grackles and starlings neatly punctuated an invisible sentence.

~ John Updike

A single poemis worth a hundredcozy winter nightskind wordsand healed wounds.

~ Sanober Khan

Freeing oneself from words is liberation.

~ Bodhidharma

You may use a thousand words for a single lie, but the  truth has no twin.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

The word is only a representation of the meaning; even at its best, writing almost always falls short of full meaning. Given that, why in God's name would you want to make things words by choosing a word which is only cousin to the one you really wanted to use?

~ Stephen King

Today words curve around my vision,Stumbling from my parched coreTo soak again those strands of silence.

~ Phen Weston

If you don’t stand sincere by your wordshow sincere can the people be?Take great care over words, treasure them.1.17

~ Lao Tzu

Words that speak of things close at hand and carry far-reaching implications – those are the good words.

~ Mencius

Words that defy reality are ominous. And it’s ominous reality that confronts those who would obscure the wise and worthy.

~ Mencius

A picture may be worth a thousand words, but those well-arranged words are worth a multi-million-dollar motion picture.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

I am demonstrating to you how tasty I think words are. I’m having sex with words in front of you. I’m playing around with them. I’m getting off. I’m trying to titillate you. There’s this magical substance, language, that I’m laying out for you. Then you’re going to fondle it.

~ Wayne Koestenbaum

Without words meaning anything, we stop meaning anything. It's getting to the point where nobody means what they say or says what they really mean.

~ Suzy Kassem

There are words which close a conversation as with an iron door.

~ Alexandre Dumas