The Words Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Words can be powerful allies. Or enemies

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

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

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.

Say something worth the words.

God is the Creator of all things.

It is true that words have power, and one of the things they are able to do is get out of someone’s mouth before the speaker has the chance to stop them.

There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious setting of the kitchen table.

Words are never insufficient to describe any situation. It is the talent to use the words which is the insufficient one!

Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world.

How pathetic it is to describe these things which can't truly be described.

The word 'funny' is a bit like the word 'love' - we don't have enough words to describe the many varieties.

Remember how it was when we kissed? Armfuls and armfuls of light thrown right at us. A rope dropping down from the sky. How can the word love and the word life even fit in the mouth?

To withhold words is power. But to share our words with others, openly and honestly, is also power.

Love is one of those topics that plenty of people try to write about but not enough try to do.

All those big words produce disgust today.

Voice is not just the sound that comes from your throat, but the feelings that come from your words.

My father always said that too many words cheapened the value of a man's speech.

How unladylike of you to mention such a thing.

Never use five words if you can get away with one, eh? I've known dead men talk more than you do.

And he would listen, making only a few comments, always sympathetic, so that when I left him I had the distinct impression he had solved everything for me.

The only way to get what you want is to make them more afraid of you than they are of each other.

How to put this feeling, this certainty, into something as limited as words?

I was thinking lots of things, but most of them needed to stay thoughts, not words.

Words are precious things meant to create, to imagine, to dream with.

The word lethologica describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.

Words are everything. Words give wings even to those who have been stamped upon, broken beyond all hope of repair.

A word into the silence thrown always finds its echo somewhere where silence opens hidden lexicons.

A teacher of mine once said there are no true synonyms.

There is a vast deal of vital air in loving words.

Speech devoted to truth should be straightforward and plain

Risk is not a dirty word.

We are pouring our words into a sieve, and lose our labor. [Lat., In pertusum ingerimus dicta dolium, operam ludimus.]

It's really fun to write cuss words. Just in general.

Equity, ownership, production fees, license fees: those are the vocabulary words that are exciting to me.

They think so small, they use small words. But not me, I'm smarter than that, I've worked it out. I'm stretching my mouth to let those big words come on out.

There's that statement, "A picture is worth a thousand words" - well, I think flying around in Google Earth is worth a million words.

No one has the last word other than God.

If you're going to get in the ring and try to take the belt, you have to prepare to get hit.

Sometimes people come and they have so much pain and confusion in their eyes... what to do? A few words is a little bit of balm but doesn't really solve the deep disease within.

You can say the dirty words now, but there is no content - political satire is limited to small podiums and little soap boxes.

A few words about the question of whether photography is art or not: I never understood the question.

For, how else to seize such an instant? How to shout out into the empty air just the right words, and on cue? Frame a moment to last a lifetime?