Words Quotes

Language, when it finally comes, has the vigor of a felon pardoned after twenty-one years on hold. Sudden, raw, stripped to its underwear.

~ Toni Morrison

It was the look on her face when she said it. And how much she meant it. It suddenly made everything seem like it really was. I felt terrible. Just terrible.

~ Stephen Chbosky

If your eyes could speak, what would they say?

~ Markus Zusak

'You can't stop me. Your word voodoo, it doesn't work on me. Right? So how do you think you're going to-' Eliot produced a pistol. He didn't seem to pull it from anywhere. He just suddenly had it. Wil's eyes stung. 'See?' Eliot put away the gun. 'There are all kinds of persuasion.'

~ Max Barry

Should you care to write (and only the saints know why you should) you must needs have knowledge and art and magic - the knowledge of the music of words, the art of being artless, and the magic of loving your readers.

~ Kahil Gibran

Whenever I learn a new word, I feel strong, for I discover a new world. Whenever I share a word, I feel weak: I give away a sparkle of my dreams. (Soar)

~ Soar

Speak it into existence and your words, through your desires, will bring it into fruition.

~ Sovereign Voice

I will not impress you with words, I will prove to you their definition. It’s a genuine vocabulary.

~ Soar

Of course words are magic. That's why they call it spelling.

~ Brian Holguin

If a gesture is the most powerful command that you have, then words mean very little.

~ Lujan Matus

Progressives' don’t just redefine (and valorize) deviancy; they insist on renaming it, too.

~ Kathy Shaidle

... since the history of words is a mainspring of our intellectual and emotional character.

~ Cirilo F. Bautista

Every word the right one and exactly where it should be. That's basically the highest compliment I can give.

~ Gabrielle Zevin

If beauty is truth, and truth is beauty, they are defined by each other, so how do we know the meaning of either?

~ Ava Dellaira

A person’s words reflect the image of his character and the amount of truth and lies in it is always visible to the human heart than ordinary eyes.

~ Testy Mctesterson

I walk alone, absorbed in my fantastic play, — Fencing with rhymes, which, parrying nimbly, back away; Tripping on words, as on rough paving in the street, Or bumping into verses I long had dreamed to meet.

~ Charles Baudelaire

God’s warriors don’t avoid conflict. They fight through it with communication and a positive outlook.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Words are powerful. They too can be the agents of what is new, of what is conceivable and can be thought and let loose upon the world.

~ David Malouf

Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.

~ William Faulkner

A deaf and dumb in the mist of morons is a renowed talkative among brains.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Home. The word circled comfortably in my mouth like bubble gum, swished around sweetly soft and satisfying. Home. Try saying it aloud to yourself. Home. Isn’t it like taking a bite of something lovely? If only we could eat words.

~ Sol Luckman

And she looked upon the mirror that was given as a gift. She hated everything about it, from the circular size of it, to the color, and the wooden frame that held it in place. But mostly, she hated looking at herself. Especially into this one that had a scratch on its glass surface, which would reflect back to her face. And as she looked, it would cut her as the words her father would often say, in telling her she was ugly.

~ Anthony Liccione

There were two and only two messages that could have been comprehended by what he said.But neither of them was soothing, neither of them was a lie.

~ Sanhita Baruah

Look out how you use proud words.When you let proud words go, it is not easy to call them back.They wear long boots, hard boots; they walk off proud; they can’t hear you calling -Look out how you use proud words.

~ Carl Sandburg

There is no fiercer enemy than a word. A word that can be written down in pages and punctuated by quotation marks and commas and spelled out in contracts and poems and sighs, in old whispers and song lyrics, in promises and vows.

~ Alice Hoffman

What if the link or key to healing was through finding your unique personal creative outlet?

~ Michelle Dennis Evans

Because all her feelings for him – hot and beautiful in her heart – turned to gobbledygook in her mouth.

~ Rainbow Rowell

Shut up and do not think. All the theorists agree: shut up and keep the words from being said. And all of the scars will remain invisible, and all of the scars will remain under the skin. Where they belong.

~ Alice Hoffman

DYER. No, I am not of your Mind, for the Dialogue was fitted up with too much Facility. Words must be pluckt from Obscurity and nourished with Care, improved with Art and corrected with Application. Labour and Time are the Instruments in the perfection of all Work.

~ Peter Ackroyd

Finally, we entered Chetaube County, my imaginary birthplace, where the names of the little winding roads and minuscule mountain communities never failed to inspire me: Yardscrabble, Big Log, Upper, Middle and Lower Pigsty, Chicken Scratch, Cooterville, Felchville, Dust Rag, Dough Bag, Uranus Ridge, Big Bottom, Hooter Holler, Quickskillet, Buck Wallow, Possum Strut ... We always say a picture speaks a thousand words, but isn’t the opposite equally true?

~ Sol Luckman

Eleanor let his words hit her full on.

~ Rainbow Rowell

But isn't this a dance? Isn't all of this a dance? Isn't that what we do with words? Isn't that what we do when we talk, when we spar, when we make plans or leave them to chance? Some of it's choreographed. Some of the steps have been done for ages. And the rest--the rest is spontaneous. The rest has to be decided on the floor, in the moment, before the music ends.

~ Rachel Cohn

Wake up to think of words… want to walk through pages of meanings, the links in assonance, alliteration, or just simple sense that moves the eye to leap that way to the next-door play of sound and resonance.

~ Initially No

In other words, all the highest aims of language are decisively the work of God. They are decisively supernatural. And no amount of poetic effort or expertise in the use of words can bring about the great aims of life if God withholds his saving power.

~ John Piper

My words are within the rimBut No rim can bind my Thought.

~ Kartik Mehta

My words are like axe don't dare to interferes with your finger.

~ Kartik Mehta

The words you can't find, you borrow.

~ Gabrielle Zevin

Sometimes, silence speaks louder than words. Just because it is peaceful, it doesn’t mean it is still and void, as a few may think. It is insightful, powerful and full of meaning. It is when one can’t lie to oneself. You have to learn to listen to what she is not saying. Listen to her silence. And listen to yours, too.

~ Cristiane Serruya

Focus your attention on the quality of your words, and not the quantity, because few sensible talks attracts millions of listeners more than a thousand gibberish.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Sometimes words aren't needed.

~ Gavin Extence