Words Quotes

The two most misused words in the entire English vocabulary are love and friendship. A true friend would die for you, so when you start trying to count them on one hand, you don't need any fingers.

~ Larry Flynt

Flowers are an easy, eloquent expression of love at a time when words can seem clumsy and inadequate.

~ Lynn Coady

Some think love can be measured by the amount of butterflies in their tummy. Others think love can be measured in bunches of flowers, or by using the words 'for ever.' But love can only truly be measured by actions. It can be a small thing, such as peeling an orange for a person you love because you know they don't like doing it.

~ Marian Keyes

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

~ William Shakespeare

Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.

~ Sarah Bernhardt

I think one of the best words in the English language is 'compassion.' I think it holds everything. It holds love, it holds care... and if everybody just did something. We all make a difference.

~ Michael Crawford

Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.

~ François Rabelais

Good words cool more than cold water.

~ John Ray

Rhyme patterns are nothing without meanings to the words. A lot of rappers can do those flows, but the raps aren't really about anything - which is cool sometimes, but to have the flow and the message is one of my favorite things.

~ J. Cole

My friend and I sang an a cappella rendition of Extreme's 'More Than Words' at one of our football pep rallies in a desperate attempt to look cool. For a while, I wore pink Converse All Stars because I thought it made me seem daring and irreverent.

~ Ed Helms

Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.

~ Yehuda Berg

Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.

~ Carol Burnett

The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.

~ Sydney J. Harris

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

~ Buddha

The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.

~ Philip K. Dick

Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.

~ Homer

The temple of art is built in words.

~ Josiah Gilbert Holland

The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

~ Florence Scovel Shinn

I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words.

~ Ruth St. Denis

Words that are carefully framed and spoken are the most powerful means of communication there is.

~ Nancy Duarte

In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

~ Wallace Stevens

Good words are worth much, and cost little.

~ George Herbert

The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.

~ May Sarton

Words are but the signs of ideas.

~ Samuel Johnson

There is a world of communication which is not dependent on words.

~ Mary Martin

Within speech, words are subject to a kind of relation that is independent of the first and based on their linkage: these are syntagmatic relations, of which I have spoken.

~ Ferdinand De Saussure

Words are but pictures of our thoughts.

~ John Dryden

Genuine good taste consists in saying much in few words, in choosing among our thoughts, in having order and arrangement in what we say, and in speaking with composure.

~ François Fénelon

Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors.

~ Leonard Bernstein

There are many reasons our prayers may lack power. Sometimes they become routine. Our prayers become hollow when we say similar words in similar ways over and over so often that the words become more of a recitation than a communication.

~ Joseph B. Wirthlin

The communication is in the work and words are no substitute for this.

~ Mary Martin

Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.

~ Samuel Butler

I understand why people went nuts for 'The Artist.' We use words so much, it's nice to be able to explore a different way of communication, to be able to express silently what someone - or something - is thinking or feeling.

~ Andy Serkis

Be not a slave of words.

~ Thomas Carlyle

I grew up in an atmosphere where words were an integral part of culture.

~ Wole Soyinka

The Pavlovian view of women voters - 'plug the words in, and they will respond' - sends a chill down my spine because it sounds like an adaptation of something I have written about communication between the sexes: When a woman tells a man about a problem, she doesn't want him to fix it; she just wants him to listen and let her know he understands.

~ Deborah Tannen

Nonverbal communication forms a social language that is in many ways richer and more fundamental than our words.

~ Leonard Mlodinow

Scientists attach great importance to the human capacity for spoken language. But we also have a parallel track of nonverbal communication, which may reveal more than our carefully chosen words, and sometimes be at odds with them.

~ Leonard Mlodinow

Communication between band-mates is imperative. Communication is the key to any healthy relationship. If I need to be checked, I expect to hear it put in plain words what my faults are, and give my band-mates the ultimate consideration by shutting up and listening, then acting on the advice given. Same goes for anyone else in any band.

~ Phil Anselmo

Sometimes words are not needed, and the simplicity of expressing yourself through an art form is one of the best ways of communication.

~ Emmanuel Jal