The Words Quotes

In a world of words, anything is possible...

If I disagree with you sometimes, it's because I have a mind of my own.

Be true to your teeth and they won't be false to you.

Barbara wanted to go to tea at Dorchester as much as she wanted to give birth to octuplets.

You are the Jehovah of goodness, Allah of brotherhood, Buddha of reasoning and Krishna of love. And that’s more than enough gods, that the world will ever need.

Similes are like songs of love: They much describe they nothing prove.

Being Irish, I always had this love of words.

It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.

Keep the enthusiasm of your youth and treasure the wisdom of old age.

One of my roommates, Rafael, he's an expert on monsters. Not that he talks about them. I can just tell. People who have monsters recognize each other. They know each other without even saying a word.

Sometimes, situation may be uncomfortable but must endure.

I have always suspected that correctness is the last refuge of those who have nothing to say.

If you can teach me a new word I'll walk all the way to China to get it.

It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed the deeper they burn.

Every utterance is an event and no two events are precisely alike. The extreme view therefore is that no word ever means the same thing twice.

A word has its use Or like a man it will soon have a grave.

The grossest thing in our gross national product today is our language. It is suffering from inflation.

Change is legitimate and inevitable for our language is a mighty river picking up silt and flotsam here and discarding it there but growing ever wider and richer.

Language is an inventory of human experience.

His words were softer than oil yet they were drawn swords.

Even if language is a living evolving organism we don't have to embrace all the changes that occur during our lifetimes. If language is so alive it can get sick.

True eloquence consists of saying all that should be not all that could be said.

Language most shows a man speak that I may see thee.

When I feel inclined to read poetry I take down my dictionary. The poetry of words is quite as beautiful as the poetry of sentences.

Everyone hears only what he understands.

Language is the armoury of the human mind and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

Words are as recalcitrant as circus animals and the unskilled trainer can crack his whip at them in vain.

"Plain English" - everybody loves it demands it - from the other fellow.

Man's command of the language is most important. Next to kissing it's the most exciting form of communication.

Slang is language which takes off its coat spits on its hands - and goes to work.

The downtrodden who are the great creators of slang hurl pithiness and colour at poverty and oppression.

Like stones words are laborious and unforgiving and the fitting of them together like the fitting of stones demands great patience and strength of purpose and particular skill.

Speech is civilization itself. The word even the most contradictory word preserves contact - it is silence which isolates.

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

I wonder what language truck drivers are using now that everyone is using theirs?

The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

Words like eyeglasses blur everything that they do not make clear.

Some words are like the old Roman galleys large-scaled and ponderous. They sit low in the water even when their cargo is light.

A language is a dialect with its own army and navy.

There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out

A knife may scar a body, but a careless word will wound a soul.

So many teachers teach us but we shall always remember certain teachers

Remember us. Remember us as we used to be, before the universe turned against us. Young, beautiful, strong, brave, admirable, loved, loving...' --Alema Rar

He who knows how to fall without hurting himself will also know how to rise without any difficulty!

God is all powerful.God is mighty.God is has power over all rulers and authorities.

It doesn't matter what Christ or Buddha said, it matters how they lived.

Mason knew what it was like to say things you didn’t mean, to just have them vomit out, and then feel that crushing ache when you realized you could never pull them back.

Love hurts. There is nothing as painful as heartbreak. But in order to learn to love again, you must learn to trust again.

Do not envy the rich

When you are purposeful and take daily action, more opportunities come into your life. Believe and build more.