Words Quotes

Every spoken thought is just a symbol for something inside your brain. This word, out here, is like that thought in there. But it's never exact. So, looking at it another way, every word you say is a lie.

~ Peter Gould

The way he said her name made my heart cramp. In all my years of word collecting, I've learned this to be a tried and true fact: I can very often tell how much a person loves another person by the way they say their name. I think that's one of the best feelings in the world, when you know your name is safe in another person's mouth. When you know they'll never shout it out like a cuss word, but say it or whisper it like a once-upon-a-time.

~ Natalie Lloyd

Words cut deeper than knives. A knife can be pulled out, words are embedded into our souls.

~ William Chapman

Remember to say what you mean, but don't say it meanly.

~ Elizabeth George

Sympathies that lie too deep for words, too deep almost for thoughts, are touched, at such times, by other charms than those which the senses feel and which the resources of expression can realise.

~ Wilkie Collins

Now, standing here, it is clear as day: more than anything else, you want to find words for what you feel and think and everything that is dark. And then this terrifying thought hits you: Yes, your father wrote poetry to find a language for his wounds. Yes, you in your own way have become your father.

~ Bilal Tanweer

The explanation has been written already in the three words that were many enough, and plain enough, for my confession. I loved her.

~ Wilkie Collins

But she went to tell the bees. She felt like an idiot doing it, but she'd promised. She remembered that it wasn't enough just to think at them: you had to say the words out loud. Bees were the messengers between this world and the other worlds, Pilar had said. Between the living and the dead. They carried the Word made air.

~ Margaret Atwood

Few realize how loud their expressions really are. Be kind with what you wordlessly say.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

You are a failure not the time when you are defeated.. but when you give up fighting.

~ Vikrmn

One of the most common platitudes we heard was that “words failed.” But words were not failing us at all. It was not true that there was no way to describe our experience. We had plenty of language to talk to each other about the horror of what was happening, and talk we did. If there was a communication problem it was that there were too many words; they were far too heavy and too specific to be inflicted upon others. If something was failing it was the functionality of routine, platitudinous language—the comforting clichés were now inapplicable and perfectly useless. We instinctively protected other people from the knowledge we possessed; we let them think that words failed, because we knew they didn’t want to be familiar with the vocabulary we used daily. We were sure they didn’t want to know what we did; we didn’t want to know it either.

~ Aleksandar Hemon

If you are not good at speeches, be good at your actions.

~ Amit Kalantri

Conversations are like dances. Two people effortlessly move in step with one another, usually anticipating the other person's next move. If one of the dancers moves in an unexpected direction, the other typically adapts and builds on the new approach. As with dancing, it is often difficult to tell who is leading and who is following in that the two people are constantly affecting each other. And once the dance begins, it is almost impossible for one person to singly dictate the couple's movement.

~ James W. Pennebaker

Men command fewer words than they have ideas to express, and language, as Jean Paul said, is a dictionary of faded metaphors.

~ Walter Lippmann

When a heart gets hurt, its pain comes over the words.”― Samar Sudha

~ Samar Sudha

...speak to me as to thy thinkingAs thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughtsThe worst of words...

~ William Shakespeare

Art, its completeness, its formedness, its finishedness, had no power to console. Words, on the other hand, were a lifeline.

~ Diane Setterfield

Words are nets through which all truth escapes(News From The World)

~ Paula Fox

Words had become overnight just little coins, insignificant and unfreighted, to be exchanged for ribbons, buttons, for an apple or an egg.

~ Jo Baker

Speech is the deadliest of revealers.' - Hercule Poirot, Cards on the Table

~ Agatha Christie

It is doubtful whether a supreme master of style could pack all the elements of truth that complete justice would demand into a hundred word account of what had happened in Korea during the course of several months. For language is by no means a perfect vehicle of meanings. Words, like currency, are turned over and over again, to evoke one set of images to-day, another to-morrow. There is no certainty whatever that the same word will call out exactly the same idea in the reader's mind as it did in the reporter's. Theoretically, if each fact and each relation had a name that was unique, and if everyone had agreed on the names, it would be possible to communicate without misunderstanding. In the exact sciences there is an approach to this ideal, and that is part of the reason why of all forms of world-wide cooperation, scientific inquiry is the most effective.

~ Walter Lippmann

My words are not the inspiration, I am the inspiration.

~ Amit Kalantri

This is why we said 'ain't'and 'he don't'.We wanted words to fitour cold linoleum,our oil lamps, ourouthouse. We knewbetter but it was wrongto use a languagethat named ghosts,nothing you could touch.

~ Vern Rustsala

YES and NO is just a word but it have big meanings inside it.

~ Adel Sakura

Thoughts need words. Words need a voice.

~ Sharon M. Draper

Words are the wellspring of the world, and language is the most powerful weapon in the ancient and still unfolding war between truth and lies.

~ Dean Koontz

The trouble with words is that no matter how much sense they make in theory, they can’t change what you feel inside.

~ Rebecca James

Silent words are heard through eyes.

~ Vikrmn

I have no words to save you.

~ Julie Berry

There's nothing worthless about being wordless, it will only save your mouth from talking gibberish.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

... a man needs no camel to ride to hell, yea, nor horse, nor mule; a man may ride into hell on his tongue...

~ Terry Pratchett

Words are man's first and most grandiose invention. With language he created a whole new universe

~ Aldous Huxley

Family. It was just a word…Could see its letters all strung together. But it was a symbol, too. And people thought they knew what it meant…It was a thing everyone had an opinion about—that it was all you had when you didn’t have anything else, that family was there, that blood was thicker than water, whatever. But when Nailer thought about it, most of these words and ideas just seemed like good excuses for people to behave badly and get away with it. Family wasn’t more reliable than marriages or friendships…maybe less…The blood bond was nothing. It was the people that mattered. If they covered your back, and you covered theirs, then maybe that was worth calling family.

~ Paolo Bacigalupi

I dread the beginning of her new life more than words can tell, but I see some hope for her if she travels - none if she remains at home.

~ Wilkie Collins

There is indeed power in words. Most of the lasting change that has been forged in the history of this world came not from a wielding of the swift and bloody sword of battle but from the shaping scalpel of ideas, and what are ideas without the words to deliver them?

~ Mark Dunn

You stuttered like a kaleidoscope, because you knew too many words.

~ Stephin Merritt

Words are things. The words he is in possession of he cannot be deprived of. Their authority transcends his ignorance of their meaning.

~ Cormac Mccarthy

Words cannot only be made... But made to have a meaning, free the tongue and continue your speech.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Lovely phrases had lit candles in her mind, one after the other, till she felt intoxicated with the brightness.

~ Elizabeth Goudge

We inter-change ideas. You can stay in the United States and inspire people in Indonesia. You can stay in Ghana and inspire people in Turkey. You can stay in Nigeria and inspire people in cote'd voire. You can stay in Senegal and inspire people in China and vice versa.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson