Words Quotes

If you have to use the words, “deep down” all that means is you're fooling yourself. You're seeing what you want to see and not what's really there.

~ Nyrae Dawn

Because all the words in the world won't do much good if they're just rattling around in your head.

~ Kristin Levine

Sometimes words come out of me and I don't know where they come from or why. They're like falling stars tumbling through the universe; bright, burning things that can't be stopped.

~ Glenda Millard

Words are precious things meant to create, to imagine, to dream with.

~ Elizabeth Chandler

Trust is a thing you know without words.

~ Juliet Marillier

If my words don't flow out of a heart that rests in God's control, sovereignty, then they come out of the heart that seeks control so I can get what I want.

~ Mark Driscoll

I would rather my heart be without words than my words be without heart.

~ Lamar Boschman

Silence made space for other people's words, which was important for those who needed to be listened to.

~ Rachel Simon

I saw pearls in her mouth and the velvet cushion of her tongue and I heard the magic words come out of her.

~ Glenda Millard

Then you must tell them that love isn't something like a grindstone that's the same thing everywhere and do the same thing to everything it touches. Love is like the sea. It is a moving thing, but still and all, it takes its shape from the shore it meets, and its different with every shore. (written properly and not in slang)

~ Zora Neale Hurston

I wish I didn’t need words to speak to her. They sometimes hold very different meanings for us both.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

Words can be powerful allies. Or enemies

~ Yasmine Galenorn

I know that sentence is long and has too many joining words in it but sometimes, when I'm angry, words burst out of me like a shout, or, if I'm sad, they spill out of me like tears, and if I'm happy my words are like a song. If that happens it's one of my rules not to change them because they're coming out of my heart and not my head, and that's the way they're meant to be.

~ Glenda Millard

I didn't understand right away what she meant. But her words soaked through my skull like warm oil, behind my eyes, down my spine and into the empty space inside me.

~ Glenda Millard

Contrary to what is generally believed, meaning and sense were never the same thing, meaning shows itself at once, direct, literal, explicit, enclosed in itself, univocal, if you like, while sense cannot stay still, it seethes with second, third and fourth senses, radiating out in different directions that divide and subdivide into branches and branchlets, until they disappear from view, the sense of every word is like a star hurling spring tides out into space, cosmic winds, magnetic perturbations, afflictions.

~ José Saramago

Silence is a great companion when words are devoid of meanings.

~ Nema Al-Araby

There is great worth in holding universal truths and timelessly beautiful words in your heart, which will stay there forever, infusing your thoughts and speech…

~ Dan Stevens

What words cannot convey ... the mind can read.

~ Stephen Richards

Some people make tunes, but it is lines that run like moving messages through my head. Whatever else I am saying and doing often has no bearing on this inner, verbal life.

~ Susan Hill

You have to have a plot too, you know? Because without it, your life is less of a story and more of an empty paper.

~ Nema Al-Araby

Language is the expression of ideas by means of speech-sounds combined into words. Words are combined into sentences, this combination answering to that of ideas into thoughts.

~ Henry Sweet

Words have always swirled around me like snowflakes-each one delicate and different, each one melting untouched in my hands.

~ Sharon M. Draper

Words are the thread in the fabric of the universe.

~ Tiffany Reisz

What do you think was the first sound to become a word, a meaning?...I imagined two people without words, unable to speak to each other. I imagined the need: The color of the sky that meant 'storm.' The smell of fire taht meant 'Flee.' The sound of a tiger about to pounce. Who would worry about these things?And then I realized what the first word must have been: ma, the sound of a baby smacking its lips in search of her mother's breast. For a long time, that was the only word the baby needed. Ma, ma, ma. Then the mother decided that was her name and she began to speak, too. She taught the baby to be careful: sky, fire, tiger. A mother is always the beginning. She is how things begin.

~ Amy Tan

You couldn’t leave words lying around where our enemies might find them.

~ Margaret Atwood

There is no use indicting words, they are no shoddier than what they peddle.

~ Samuel Beckett

I looked up fairness in the dictionary and it was not there.

~ William Giraldi

I like the sound of words, but I don't ever really expect my slow, slanted impression of the world to change by what I read.

~ Gregory Maguire

words...To lure the tribal shoals to epigram / And order.

~ Seamus Heaney

From time to time I try to imagine this world of which he spoke--a culture in whose mythology words might be that precious, in which words were conceived as vessels for communications from the heart; a society in which words are holy, and the challenge of life is based upon the quest for gentle words, holy words, gentle truths, holy truths.I try to imagine for myself a world in which the words one gives one's children are the shell into which they shall grow, so one chooses one's children are the shell into which they shall grow, so one chooses one's words carefully, like precious gifts, like magnificent gifts, like magnificent inheritances, for they convey an excess of what we have imagined, they bear gifts beyond imagination, they reveal and revisit the wealth of history.How carefully, how slowly, and how lovingly we might step into our expectations of each other in such a world.

~ Patricia J. Williams

Words are Hamlet's constant companions, his weapons, and his defenses. ...And yet, words also serve as Hamlet's prison. He analyzes and examines every nuance of his situation until he has exhausted every angle. They cause him to be indecisive. He dallies in his own wit, intoxicated by the mix of words he can concoct; he frustrates his own burning desire to be more like his father, the Hyperion. When he says that Claudius is ... no more like my father than I to Hercules he recognizes his enslavement to words, his inability to thrust home his sword of truth. No mythic character is Hamlet. He is stuck, unable to avenge his father's death because words control him.

~ Carla Lynn Stockton

In the process, what must be spoken meets what cannot be said. Each word is a catalyst, requiring the writer to break out forcefully from another story, from the primitive camp where history, society, and politics converge, to touch upon that 'what' and that 'who.' At that touch, one finds the unlimited boundaries of man, concealed by words.

~ Duo Duo

Each word's evocative value or virtue, its individual power of touching springs in the mind and of initiating visions, becomes a treasure to revel in. Besides this hold on affection a word may well have about it the glamorous prestige of high adventures in great company. Think of that the plain word dust calls to mind. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was. Dust hath closed Helen's eye. All follow this and come to dust. The way to dusty death. So, to the lover of words, each word may be not a precious stone only, but one that has shone on Solomon's temple or in Cleopatra's hair.

~ C.e. Montague

I can feel the power of the words doing the work. Must trust language more.

~ Antony Sher

When you have nothing to say, say nothing.

~ Charles Caleb Colton

It doesn't matter what Christ or Buddha said, it matters how they lived.

~ Marty Rubin

'twas bryllig and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe All mimsy were the borogoves And the mome raths out grabe.

~ Lewis Carroll

A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.

~ Charles Péguy

Language is the Rubicon that divides man from beast.

~ Max Miiller

Dialect words - those terrible marks of the beast to the truly genteel.

~ Thomas Hardy