Words Quotes

The words explain us all, each having a meaning in a meantime: every time for a lifetime.

~ Aporva Kala

Chameleonesque, hobbitish, unicorned, stompled, selfishism, and unwakeable may not be real words, but you do know what they mean.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Words can't fix my life.Words can't give me a family.Words can't do jack.You may be a teacher, Ms. Leone, but face it: You don't know squat.

~ Wendelin Van Draanen

The more words you know, the more clearly and powerfully you will think...and the more ideas you will invite into your mind.

~ Wilfred Funk

You ask me what it feels like to have wings. I can only tell you the feeling with words. And words have neither feelings nor wings. Words are leaky vessels into which a cargo of meaning and emotion are placed, and when they leave you and reach the farther shore of another mind a considerable portion of that cargo has been lost at sea. Fallen overboard, gone to rot, consumed by vermin, decayed to a state unlike its original form.

~ Steven R. Boyett

‎Without a knowledge of where words come from, things disappear, history is lost.

~ Patrick Lane

A tongue is about the size of a bullet, but much more fierce and powerful.

~ Anthony Liccione

...perhaps in actions I'm less of a man - but, oh the words - such lovely words...

~ John Geddes

I won’t ever tell someone to never hold on for what might be gone; because if they don’t see it for themselves, my words will be just words.

~ Rayvon L. Browne

You know your heart and soul are stapled to that manuscript, but what we see are the words on the paper

~ Teresa Nielsen Haydense

Our words were a shaky ladder; all I could do was climb, uncertain if I was about to surmount a glorious peak or fall and smash myself on the rocks below.

~ Deva Fagan

I loathe my childhood and all that remains of it.Jean-Paul Sartre, Words

~ Carole Seymour-Jones

I didn't know how to say goodbye. Words were stupid. They said so little. Yet they opened up holes you could fall into and never climb out of again.

~ Ann Rinaldi

Words.I’m surrounded by thousands of words. Maybe millions. Cathedral. Mayonnaise. Pomegranate.Mississippi. Neapolitan. Hippopotamus.Silky. Terrifying. Iridescent.Tickle. Sneeze. Wish. Worry.Words have always swirled around me like snowflakes—each one delicate and different, each one melting untouched in my hands.Deep within me, words pile up in huge drifts. Mountains of phrases and sentences and connected ideas. Clever expressions. Jokes. Love songs.From the time I was really little—maybe just a few months old—words were like sweet, liquid gifts, and I drank them like lemonade. I could almost taste them. They made my jumbled thoughts and feelings have substance. My parents have always blanketed me with conversation. They chattered and babbled. They verbalized and vocalized. My father sang to me. My mother whispered her strength into my ear.Every word my parents spoke to me or about me I absorbed and kept and remembered. All of them.I have no idea how I untangled the complicated process of words and thought, but it happened quickly and naturally. By the time I was two, all my memories had words, and all my words had meanings.But only in my head.I have never spoken one single word. I am almost eleven years old.

~ Sharon M. Draper

There are only 3 things that can make your dreams come true: your thoughts, your words, and your actions.

~ Mike Dooley

Gods? Don't let that impress you. Anyone can be a god if they have enough worshippers. You don't even have to have powers anymore. In my time I've seen theatre gods, gladiator gods, even storyteller gods - you people see gods everywhere. Gives you an excuse for not thinking for yourselves.God is just a word. Like Fury. like demon, Just words people use for things they don't understand. Reverse it and you get dog. It's just as appropriate.

~ Joanne Harris

You can get much further with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

~ Al Capone

Words only reveal half of your heart. Service defines the other half. Character is the combination of the two.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

People talk a lot but they rarely say anything.

~ Sandra Chami Kassis

And after that, and also for each word, there should be sentences that show the twists and turns of meanings—the way almost every word slips in its silvery, fishlike way, weaving this way and that, adding subtleties of nuance to itself, and then perhaps shedding them as public mood dictates.

~ Simon Winchester

Words themselves are all the ghosts we need.

~ Donald Harington

Words form the sinew and muscle that hold societies upright, he argued. Consider the Koran, the Bible, the American Constitution, but also letters from fathers to sons, last wills, blessings, curses. Thousands upon thousands of words infused with the full spectrum of emotions fill in the nooks and corners of human life.

~ National Geographic Society

At first, that's who I was. I wanted to know more about this boy who lives among us, but who never truly speaks... But now I feel like finding out about him is one of the ways I found out about myself. I did not expect to love his words. I did no expect to find myself in the.

~ Ally Condie

She walked rather quickly; she liked to be active, though at times she gave an impression of repose that was at once static and evocative. This was because she knew few words and believed in none, and in the world she was rather silent, contributing just her share of urbane humor with a precision that approached meagreness. But at the moment when strangers tended to grow uncomfortable in the presence of this economy she would seize the topic and rush off with it, feverishly surprised with herself-- then bring it back and relinquish it abruptly, almost timidly, like an obedient retriever, having been adequate and something more.

~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

Words are not brains, you know.

~ Deepak Chopra

When fear and cold make a statue of you in your bed, don’t expect hard-boned and fleshless truth to come running to your aid. What you need are the plump comforts of a story. The soothing, rocking safety of a lie.

~ Diane Setterfield

All words, then, belonging to the inner world of the mind, are of the imagination, are originally poetic words.

~ George Macdonald

Your words have the power of life and death. Choose them wisely.

~ Orrin Woodward

Don't let yourself be amazed by the imagination of a writer and his words, writers are almost all the time in a love-hate relationship with words.

~ Nema Al-Araby

I liked old time music but what i meant by that was the period from the 1930s through the 60s, nothing before and little after. Performers like fats waller, Sinatra, billie holiday, louis armstrong, rosemary clooney, ella, sammy Davis Jr, dean martin... If the lyrics weren't stupid. Words were important.

~ Jeffery Deaver

The night before, I'd gone overboard with my Lila poems, and maybe it's true that I was hoping that in them he'd see the genius of me, the beauty of my words in his hands.

~ Beth Kephart

...because if there was one thing he didn't like it was big words, they just lied and covered things up, those big words, they didn't let what really was live and breathe but just carried it off into something that wanted to be big, that's what he thought...

~ Jon Fosse

Words can be a fortress or a drawbridge to disaster

~ Benny Bellamacina

Words will only ruin you, if you allow them.

~ Anthony Liccione

Every poet knows that the gift of the gods is not fire but language. “Man dwells poetically on this earth,” Hölderin wrote. Language is the essence of being human. We can think, thanks to language, for thought exists only by the grace of words. Our experiences and emotions are molded by language. It is language that allows us to name and know the world. We ourselves are known by language, through prayer, confession, poetry. Language gives us a world that reaches beyond the reality of the moment, to a past (there was…) and a future (there shall be…). It is through language that eternity has a space and that the dead continue to speak: “Defunctus adhuc loquitur” (Hebrews 11:4). Thanks to language, there is meaning, there is truth.

~ Rob Riemen

It's ridiculous to think that taking out words will heal hearts,because a palm-sized box is just not enough for the anger of this world.

~ Nema Al-Araby

In such troubled times, we must remember the value writers have—the value of inventing new language to keep pace with the rapidly transforming world around us.

~ Jonathan Stalling

... but I love language. It is a living, breathing, evolving thing, and language has power. Whether in a song lyric, a poem, a speech, or a simple conversation, we’ve all experienced words that resonate with us. They may make us recall a powerful moment, inspire us, move us, or perhaps, comfort us…. But at the same time, we don’t think in words. We think in pictures. If I say the word ‘dog’ to you, you aren’t picturing the letters, d-o-g, you’re picturing a dog from your memory...

~ Lily Velden

Sometimes it's not what you say, Valkyrie, it's just the fact that you're saying it.

~ Derek Landy