The Words Quotes

How could an alphabet—letters that didn't even mean anything by themselves—be impo

Besides, I always feel safer when I've got words against my heart.

The term "political correctness" has always appalled me, reminding me of Orwell's "Thought Police" and fascist regimes.

-It's extremely cool how the words can stay the same but their meaning can change.-Because the reader changes.-EXACTLY

Harper, treat your words with careFor they may cause joy or despairSing your songs of health and loveOf dragons flaming from above

All words are written in the same ink, 'flower' and 'power, ' say, are much the same, and though I might write 'blood, blood, blood'all over the page, the paper would not be stainednow would I bleed.

How true it is that words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.

The thing he said aloud did not succeed.

Strong words resonate.

He was a big talker, someone who liked words for words' sake, the sound of them, the way you can pile them up in your mouth and make a poem if you speill them out the right way.p92

Sometimes you take all my words away from me.

Mrs. Bittarcy rustled ominously, holding her peace meanwhile. She feared long words she did not understand. Beelzebub lay hid among too many syllables.("The Man Whom The Trees Loved")

The word is a prism through which the two beams shot from heart and head are refracted into the colours of the Universe.

I was on the point of breaking off the conversation, for nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.

If you observe the pace of my breaths, you won't need to listen to my words.

There are things which couldn't be expressed by the words, when you've mastered certain lesson for more than 30 years.

What are words if you really don't mean them when you say them?

Words are useless. Use your eyes to say a million things.

He only had the imperfect medium of words.

So …” Jack clears his throat. “We …”Is Jack Coombs at a loss for words? I guess we don’t have to worry about the performance since the world is clearly going to end.

The wise man reveals more than words spoken.

All things human begin with words.

Jess couldn't stop spitting out words, because they were words like blades to hurt, and if she swallowed them, she'd be scraped hollow.

...the words make our silences easier--they're the current that runs under them.

I always knew that words are suitcases with false bottoms.

Toppling sounds like it jumped from a tall building and landed gracefully on is g.

I collect words--they are sweets in the mouth of sound.

He lost himself in the words and images conjured in his mind and for a while forgot ... He found himself flying among stars and planets ...

The words sounded like a mournful incantation.

It's the words we whisper to ourselves that make us who we are.

My wandering imagination never gives up on me and always finds ways to explore what my emotions entail.

Don't be ridiculous, please.'The most insulting words in the world!

If I had my life over again[, ] I'd have thought more about words. And thought about them earlier.

Words are only words

The dictionary is an ossuary of empty words.

If you believe what you say, words become reality.

His words saddened them greatly, though they couldn't say why.

Is it crazy to say that I sometimes don't understand what I write but I write it anyway, because maybe someone, somewhere, somehow, would feel what I didn't?

I appricated that Nell was talking to me like a grown-up, but I had no idea what she meant. Still, I could see that the words flowed together like water over a riverbed.

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one’s never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

But the more I think about it, the more I think PC words are a crock of shit. If I want to describe something using a stupid word, I should.

Six Stars, ' he exclaimed. 'Finding the right words is hard!

In soul of every newborn baby, words are waiting to be written.

Words make known. But we live in the unknown.

Nobody will ever be able to understand the meaning of the measure of his own words.

Except that love - that mysterious, vast, all-encompassing power - could not possibly be contained in a single word.

If every word introduces a new concept, the simple phrase "all that which does not exist" is sufficient to make everything that does not exist, exist.

There's magic in the words. In the right order, they can make you cry, make you smile, or even make you stronger. But only if you have tasted a life that's worth living.

My mother and Alexis had said no more than ten words to each other. The long silences were deafening

By claiming that our words are too hard to understand, the media perpetuates the idea that WE are too hard to understand, and suggests that there’s no point in trying.