Words Quotes

It has been noted that actions speak louder than words. Truth is, I have found that during many situations in life, words are just noise... and actions are the ONLY things that speak.

~ Steve Maraboli

Words aren't made — they grow,' said Anne.

~ L.m. Montgomery

The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbola never perfectly match. Eros is in between.

~ Anne Carson

The orange flames waved at the crowd as paper and print dissolved inside them. Burning words were torn from their sentences.

~ Markus Zusak

All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.

~ Samuel Beckett

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

~ Kahlil Gibran

How to put this feeling, this certainty, into something as limited as words?

~ Eileen Wilks

Only write to me, write to me, I love to see the hop and skip and sudden starts of your ink.

~ A.s. Byatt

The beauty of this idea is that my decision to keep Peeta alive at the expense of my own life is itself an act of defiance. A refusal to play the Hunger Games by the Capitol's rules. My private agenda dovetails completely with my public one. And if I really could save Peeta... in terms of a revolution, this would be ideal. Because I will be more valuable dead. They can turn me into some kind of martyr for the cause and paint my face on banners, and it will do more to rally people than anything I could do if I was living. But Peeta would be more valuable alive, and tragic, because he will be able to turn his pain into words that will transform people.

~ Suzanne Collins

But who has time to write memoirs? I’m still living my memoirs.

~ Rebecca Wells

I find it ridiculous to assign a gender to an inanimate object incapable of disrobing and making an occasional fool of itself.

~ David Sedaris

When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen in the real world, and like spells, they only work if people believe in them.

~ Hilary Mantel

But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?

~ L.m. Montgomery

That was the thing about words, they were clear and specific--chair, eye, stone--but when you talked about feelings, words were too stiff, they were this and not that, they couldn't include all the meanings. In defining, they always left something out.

~ Janet Fitch

We never choose which words to use, for as long as they mean what they mean to mean, we don’t care if they make sense or nonsense.

~ Norton Juster

Just remember, when someone has an accent, it means that he knows one more language than you do.

~ Sidney Sheldon

A person who doesn’t understand both sides of an issue can’t relate to the side he is trying to sway, so his words will bounce off of them without leaving any impression.

~ Daniel Willey

You string some letters together, and you make a word. You string some words together, and you make a sentence, then a paragraph, then a chapter. Words have power.

~ Chloe Neill

It doesn't matter if you and everyone else in the room are thinking it. You don't say the words. Words are weapons. They blast big bloody holes in the world. And words are bricks. Say something out loud and it starts turning solid. Say it loud enough and it becomes a wall you can't get through.

~ Richard Kadrey

Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound,Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.

~ Alexander Pope

It's strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.

~ Veronica Roth

I am no poet. I do not love words for the sake of words. I love words for what they can accomplish. Similarly, I am no arithmetician. Numbers that speak only of numbers are of little interest to me.

~ Patrick Rothfuss

In the end, it is my belief, words are the only things that can construct a world that makes sense.

~ Kate Atkinson

Dictionaries stop where the heart starts.

~ David Foenkinos

When you feel like throwing rocks, make sure they're ones no one can throw back.

~ Rebecca Mckinsey

The night is falling down around us. Meteors rain like fireworks, quick rips in the seam of the dark... Every second, another streak of silver glows: parentheses, exclamation points, commas - a whole grammar made of light, for words too hard to speak.

~ Jodi Picoult

And he would listen, making only a few comments, always sympathetic, so that when I left him I had the distinct impression he had solved everything for me.

~ Anne Rice

How unladylike of you to mention such a thing.

~ Melina Marchetta

Writing cannot express all words, words cannot encompass all ideas.

~ Confucius

Translation is the art of failure.

~ Umberto Eco

He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that anymore than for pride or fear.

~ William Faulkner

There are some words that once spoken will split the world in two. There would be the life before you breathed them and then the altered life after they'd been said. They take a long time to find, words like that. They make you hesitate. Choose with care. Hold on to them unspoken for as long as you can just so your world will stay intact.

~ Andrea Levy

The phrase and the day and the scene harmonized in a chord. Words. Was it their colours? He allowed them to glow and fade, hue after hue: sunrise gold, the russet and green of apple orchards, azure of waves, the greyfringed fleece of clouds. No it was not their colours: it was the poise and balance of the period itself. Did he then love the rhythmic rise and fall of words better than their associations of legend and colour? Or was it that, being as weak of sight as he was shy of mind, he drew less pleasure from the reflection of the glowing sensible world through the prism of a language manycoloured and richly storied than from the contemplation of an inner world of individual emotions mirrored perfectly in a lucid supple periodic prose?

~ James Joyce

Sink every impulse like a bolt. Secure The bastion of sensation. Do not waver Into language. Do not waver in it.

~ Seamus Heaney

Words', he said, 'is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life. So you must simply try to be patient and stop squibbling. As I am telling you before, I know exactly what words I am wanting to say, but somehow or other they is always getting squiff-squiddled around.

~ Roald Dahl

Every one has experienced how learning an appropriate name for what was dim and vague cleared up and crystallized the whole matter. Some meaning seems distinct almost within reach, but is elusive; it refuses to condense into definite form; the attaching of a word somehow (just how, it is almost impossible to say) puts limits around the meaning, draws it out from the void, makes it stand out as an entity on its own account.

~ John Dewey

sometimes every word i write is 'love' but the letters are rearranged, the sounds are different. all the words are red.

~ Zoe Trope

Jacinta never told Penelope that she loved her. The nurse knew that those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

~ Samuel Johnson

Elodin pointed down the street. What color is that boy's shirt?Blue.What do you mean by blue? Describe it.I struggled for a moment, failed. So blue is a name?It is a word. Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts. There are seven words that will make a person love you. There are ten words that will break a strong man's will. But a word is nothing but a painting of a fire. A name is the fire itself.My head was swimming by this point. I still don't understand.He laid a hand on my shoulder. Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating. He lifted his hands high above his head as if stretching for the sky. But there are other ways to understanding! he shouted, laughing like a child. He threw both arms to the cloudless arch of sky above us, still laughing. Look! he shouted tilting his head back. Blue! Blue! Blue!

~ Patrick Rothfuss