The Words Quotes

Words will never fully capture what is alive in our hearts.It would be a shame, though, if we denied our bears their dancing.

Kind words produce happiness. How often have we ourselves been made happy by kind words, in a manner and to an extent which we are unable to explain!

As a boy, I used to marvel that the letters in a closed book did not get scrambled and lost overnight.

Disappear, she says. I love that word.

Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't.

Choose your words carefully. They reveal your inner character.

A word out of place or an interesting choice of vocabulary can spawn a whole character.

I need words and print... I need print like an addict. I could live without it, perhaps. But I hope I never have to try.

That speaking the words, even if true, had little power to change the inevitable or even make him feel much better.

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

I love being able to sing for my job. I am blessed beyond words and I hope my fans can feel that while I'm on stage!

I have seen these persons speak unthinkingly, not realizing that to speak is also to be. Word and gesture are man's thought. We should not speak without reason.

As the Palestinian leadership never seems to pay any penalty for its words, America's seriousness about the peace process is in doubt.

Books have their idiosyncrasies as well as people, and will not show me their full beauties unless the place and time in which they are read suits them.

This was the time in her life that she fell upon books as the only door out of her cell. They became half her world.

Through words to the meaning of thoughts with no words.

What a glut of books! Who can read them?

The right word at the right time helps you make sense of the world. It helps, but sometimes not a lot.

Eternity is a glorious word, but eternity is ice.

When the long bygone Lee Po wanted to say something, he could do it with only a few words.

How many unuttered words died in the heads of those for whom a word was too expensive.

We never choose which words to use, for as long as they mean what they mean to mean, we don’t care if they make sense or nonsense.

She kept watching the words.

Maurice Sendak is the daddy of them all when it comes to picture books - the words, the rhythm, the psychology, the design.

By reading so much, my vocabulary automatically improved along with my comprehension.

Words were another sword for the man who wielded them well.

I don't really believe anything I say. Because the nature of my work concerns the spaces between the words, rather than the words themselves.

Sometimes we don't need words. Rather, it's words that need us.

When they're gone out of his head, these words, they'll be gone, everywhere, forever. As if they had never been.

Say something worth the words.

Not telling is just as interesting as telling I have found. Why speech, that short verbal journey from inside to outside can be excrutiating under certain circumstances is fascinating.

Words themselves are neutral. It's the charge we add to them that matters

Of course, not everything is unsayable in words, only the living truth.

Words can be powerful allies. Or enemies

To care about words, to have a stake in what is written, to believe in the power of books - this overwhelms the rest, and beside it one's life becomes very small.

Men won't read any email from a woman that's over 200 words long.

Because there are hundreds of different ways to say one thing, I, being a writer, songwriter, and poet, speak childishly and incoherently. In speech there is so much to decide in so little time.

She had to find her own story, and she could make it whatever shape she thought best.

When everyone believes they are the life coaches, who are the players?

Letters couldn't care less whether what is written with them is true or false.

There is music in words, and it can be heard you know, by thinking.

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.

After awhile you realize that putting your actions where your mouth is makes you less likely to have to put your money where your mouth is.

It doesn't really matter if you are left behind the back, but what matters is your capacity to pull and push everyone by your way to get to the front.

If you live in a dirty big city, it means that you surely need a pastoral life to make yourself clean!

There's nothing you can do, Sirus. No one can do this for me, and no one can swoop in and rescue me every time I'm challenged. I have to do this on my own.

Have your dream...What you need now more than anything is discipline. Cast off mere words. Words turn into stone. (from Thailand)

The point is, stories can be all lengths. Never underestimate the power of “less is more.

And that's why people no longer care which words they use as long as they use lots of them.

Words have longer lives than people.