Words Quotes

Words could betray you if you chose the wrong ones, or mean less if you used too many. Jokes could be grandly miscalculated, or stories deemed boring, and I'd learned early on that my sense of humor and ideas about what sorts of things were fascinating didn't exactly overlap with my friends'.

~ Robyn Schneider

She kept watching the words.

~ Markus Zusak

WORDS IN THE HEART CANNOT BE TAKEN.

~ Terry Pratchett

I have packed myself into silence so deeply and for so long that I can never unpack myself using words. When I speak, I only pack myself a little differently.

~ Herta Müller

A man with a scant vocabulary will almost certainly be a weak thinker. The richer and more copious one's vocabulary and the greater one's awareness of fine distinctions and subtle nuances of meaning, the more fertile and precise is likely to be one's thinking. Knowledge of things and knowledge of the words for them grow together. If you do not know the words, you can hardly know the thing.

~ Henry Hazlitt

Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.

~ Wilkie Collins

What a gulf between impression and expression! That’s our ironic fate—to have Shakespearean feelings and (unless by some billion-to-one chance we happen to be Shakespeare) to talk about them like automobile salesmen or teen-agers or college professors. We practice alchemy in reverse—touch gold and it turns into lead; touch the pure lyrics of experience, and they turn into the verbal equivalents of tripe and hogwash.

~ Aldous Huxley

People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.

~ William Faulkner

I'm apt to get drunk on words...Ontology: the word about the essence of things, the word about being.

~ Madeleine L'engle

Did your mom ever tell you, ‘If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything’? She was right–and talking nicely also applies when you’re talking to yourself, even inside your head. (339)

~ Victoria Moran

I have learned that I should be careful with the words I choose to say when I am angry because later, those words always leave a huge wound of regrets in my heart besides hurting the loved ones. Those wounds can't be healed!

~ Nino Varsimashvili

[Words] cling to the very core of our memories and lie there in silence until a new desire reawakens them and recharges them with loving energy. That is one of the qualities of love that moves me most, their capacity for transmitting love. Like water, words are a wonderful conductor of energy. And the most powerful, transforming energy is the energy of love.

~ Laura Esquivel

A picture can tell a thousand words,but a few words can change it’s story.

~ Sebastyne Young

Words are everything. Words give wings even to those who have been stamped upon, broken beyond all hope of repair.

~ Samantha Shannon

Tears are the noble language of eyes, and when true love of words is destitute. The eye by tears speak, while the tongue is mute.

~ Robert Herrick

Words are like arrows, Arianne. Once loosed, you cannot call them back.

~ George R.r. Martin

Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness.

~ Kahlil Gibran

We have too many high sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them.

~ Abigail Adams

Words could be like food - they felt like something in your mouth. They tasted like something.

~ Benjamin Alire Sáenz

I want to see the thirstinside the syllablesI want to touch the firein the sound:I want to feel the darknessof the cry. I wantwords as roughas virgin rocks.” - Verb.

~ Pablo Neruda

Men of few words are the best men.(3.2.41)

~ William Shakespeare

I was thinking lots of things, but most of them needed to stay thoughts, not words.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world

~ Tom Schulman

The most colorful thing in the world is black and white, it contains all colors and at the same time excludes all.

~ Vikrmn

My father always said that too many words cheapened the value of a man's speech.

~ Patricia Briggs

How pathetic it is to describe these things which can't truly be described.

~ Anne Rice

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

That was the hard thing about grief, and the grieving. They spoke another language, and the words we knew always fell short of what we wanted them to say.

~ Sarah Dessen

She had always wanted words, she loved them, grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape. Whereas I thought words bent emotions like sticks in water.

~ Michael Ondaatje

Vocabularies are crossing circles and loops. We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or to be confined by.

~ A.s. Byatt

There's no such thing as complete when it comes to stories. Stories are infinite. They are as infinite as worlds.

~ Kelly Barnhill

Language does have the power to change reality. Therefore, treat your words as the mighty instruments they are - to heal, to bring into being, to remove, as if by magic, the terrible violations of childhood, to nurture, to cherish, to bless, to forgive - to create from the whole cloth of your soul, true love.

~ Daphne Rose Kingma

I am master of my spoken words and slave to those which remain unspoken.

~ Ankita Singhal

Words have their own hierarchy, their own protocol, their own artistic titles, their own plebeian stigmas.

~ José Saramago

Words should wander and meander. They should fly like owls and flicker like bats and slip like cats. They should murmur and scream and dance and sing.

~ David Almond

My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn't just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where you've got to duck for your life and aim to kill! Words aren't only bombs and bullets —no, they're little gifts, containing meanings!

~ Philip Roth

Take care of your words and the words will take care of you.

~ Amit Ray

When they're gone out of his head, these words, they'll be gone, everywhere, forever. As if they had never been.

~ Margaret Atwood

The words emerge from her body without her realizing it, as if she were being visited by the memory of a language long forsaken.

~ Marguerite Duras

Her words were like tinfoil, they shone and they covered things up.

~ Helen Cross