Words Quotes

Words are so ridiculous sometimes. The don't really mean anything, but they're all I have.

~ Nyrae Dawn

Writing poetry is about learning to pare down the poem to the most essential words. Every word used has to be crucial to the poem.

~ Harley King

Affliction caused by the tongue is worse than that caused by the strike of the blade of a sword.

~ Anonymous

Faeces by any other name would smell as gross

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

With your breath, issue words of a new contract. Become the law creator of a new prosperity.

~ Bryant Mcgill

I write more with the words I leave out.

~ Bryant Mcgill

When the person you love can't see your love for them beneath the painful things you say when they reject you, remember this: Love is blind.

~ Shannon L. Alder

I don't like compliments and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean.

~ Oscar Wilde

If we are the trees, words are our roots; and we grow as we write

~ Munia Khan

Words alone can effect great good as well as evil. A few apt words have swept candidates into office, ended as well as started wars, paved the way for peace and carried with them both hope as well as despair. Words alone have ruined lives, but have also brought forth healing. It is well known the harm words can cause, but the good they can bring is equally impressive.

~ Steve Goodier

The road was so dimly lighted.There we;re no highway signs to guide.But they made up their minds,If all roads were blind,They wouldn't give up 'til they died....

~ Amy Harmon

My head is a hive of words that won't settle.

~ Virginia Woolf

Don’t let someone’s words blind you from their behavior.

~ Steve Maraboli

But I don't think we shall quarrel about a word - the subject of our inquiry is too important for that.

~ Plato

I bleed words.I dream in narrative. I live in infinite worlds.I befriend figmental characters.I wish on stars in other galaxies.I harvest stories from a brooding muse.I bloom under moonlight in hushed seclusion.I am a writer.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

How can we know something that surpasses or is beyond knowledge? How can we know something that is beyond words?... We can and do use words to point to all of our human experiences. However, the experience of God as Agape is beyond words, beyond the limitations of our minds.

~ John David Geib

Words are not static.Language shape our memories, and it is also shaped by our memories.

~ John Green

Not this in-between thing that Levi had, where his brain could catch the words but couldn't hold on to them.

~ Rainbow Rowell

Arrange your unutterable alphabet, my man, / and hold tight. / It's all you've got, a naming of things, and not so beautiful.

~ Charles Wright

The words which we use in our everyday speech are nothing other than watered-down magic.

~ Sigmund Freud

I have hated the words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right. - Liesel Meminger

~ Markus Zusak

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but a word is worth a million pictures. A billion. As many as there are people who know the word. Each has their own picture, their own meaning of it, in their heads. It's theirs. It's unique. And yet they share it with everyone else. And every time they use a word, a single word, they contribute to the creation of the soul of us all.

~ Richard Tillotson

Words know how to suffocate lies to exhale the truth.

~ Munia Khan

Words are free, action is not.

~ Murad S. Shah

a bit of a dirty fighter, quick with cutting words that he later regrets and doesn't really mean. Then again, I wonder if there isn't always a grain of truth in them, somewhere

~ Emily Giffin

be careful with words you utter you might not swallow your own words, but you might bite your tongue as well..

~ Jinnul Jr.

Your words are wise, but are your actions too?

~ Kayla Davis

The sky never falls with the rain. It is never weighed down by all that it carries. It takes all of its anchorsand turns them into stars. Learn from this.

~ D. Antoinette Foy

Your flesh is not a reflection of your soul. So when you look in the mirror, remember that your light outshines your flaws.

~ D. Antoinette Foy

I am in awe of flowers. Not because of their colors, but because even though they have dirt in their roots, they still grow. They still bloom.

~ D. Antoinette Foy

To animals they were just the weather, just part of everything. But humans arose and gave them names, just as people filled the starry sky with heroes and monsters, because this turned them into stories. And humans loved stories, because once you'd turned things into stories, you could change the stories.

~ Terry Pratchett

What is the finding of love, but a voice answering a voice?

~ D. Antoinette Foy

Our words are often only vague, inadequate descriptions of our thoughts. Something gets lost in translation every time we try to express our thoughts in words. And when the other person hears our words, something gets lost in translation again, because words mean different things to different people. A long time may mean 10 hours to one person, but 10 days to another. So when a thought is formed in my brain, and my mouth expresses it in words, and your ears hear it, and your brain processes it, your brain and my brain never truly see exactly the same thing. Communication is always just an approximation.

~ Oliver Gaspirtz

Words can express true feelings, true emotions and wisdom. It is up to you to use them wisely... Choose your words carefully and express the peacefully!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

We must be careful with our words – we’re like superheroes and words are like our super powers. Super powers should always be used to help others…

~ Dianna Hardy

Life is so beautiful and so short that anything that makes me feel less than too much is nothing at all.

~ D. Antoinette Foy

My heart's scripture tastes foreign in the mouths of cowards and on the tongues of those who have never breathed inthe moon and breathed out the world.

~ D. Antoinette Foy

Take each day in your open palms and close your fists around it. This life is not done with you yet.

~ D. Antoinette Foy

The sound of words as they're said is always different from the sound they make when they're heard, because the speakers hears some of the sound from the inside.

~ David Levithan

Just let the words fly from your lips and your pen. Give them rhythm and depth and height and silliness. Give them filth and form and noble stupidity. Words are free and all words, light and frothy, firm and sculpted as they may be, bear the history of their passage from lip to lip over thousands of years. How they feel to us now tells us whole stories of our ancestors.

~ Stephen Fry