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

words, you see," he said, looking at me again, "allow us to make permanent what is essentially transient.Turn a world filled with injustice and hurt into a place that is beautiful and lyrical.

Vaddey Ratner

His words were full of hope and threat. Like the stars.

James S.A. Corey

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.

Ram Dass

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

Haruki Murakami

Words need to be sown like seeds. No matter how tiny a seed may be, when in lands in the right sort of ground it unfolds its strength and from being minute expands and grows to a massive size.

Seneca

Words have magic. Spells and curses. Some of them, the best of them, once said change everything.

Nora Roberts

Gossip: a weed watered by wayward words.

Soul Dancer

Some words are sweet but unprotifable! Some are bitter but important. First weigh your words on the counter of integrity and speak not only because your words are sweet, but because they contain the truth!

Israelmore Ayivor

He taught me that language was rubbery, plastic. It wasn't, as I thought, something you just use, but something you can play with. Words were made up of little bits that could be shuffled, turned back to front, remixed. They could be tucked and folded into other words to produce unexpected things. It was like cookery, like alchemy. Language hid more than it revealed.

Mal Peet

You are a leader until you are dictated by your own words.

M.F. Moonzajer

There is nothing like the moment you connect with a reader! Nothing like the response that you get when what you have written touches someone in some way. It's a moment in which your work is almost a co-creation, you and the reader joining forces to make your words live.

Dani Harper

Three carefully stringed words are worth more than a book of gibberish. It's not the word count but the impact of those words that counts.

Richelle E. Goodrich

In simple words, whatever you were born to do, you were equipped to do it. You are a whole equipment for success!

Israelmore Ayivor

You're like candy. People lick your knowledge to become wise, lick your words from your powerful mouth and say it even better than you. Lick each step you make and stay on a good track, and once you're dead, the lickers scavenge for another intellectual candy.

Michael Bassey Johnson

If your words touch the hearts, that’s good; if your words touch the minds, that’s better and if your words touch both the hearts and the minds, that is the best!

Mehmet Murat ildan

A Dream Pirate attack is swift and ragged. Like awkward phantoms, the pirates often fly in lurches and jerks, and they usually destroy everything that gets in their way.

William Joyce

Look into words for the tomb of spacewhere beauties & stones & eternities untangle.(...)In them is the flood which bothers the seaand the songs which need no music.Say these words that evolve into silence,whose language survives not being understood.Pronounce those which are unpalatable &untangle from all the world wants to hear.

M.T.C. Cronin

I'd developed an inability to demonstrate much negative emotion at all. It was another thing that made me seem like a dick - my stomach could be all oiled eels, and you would get nothing from my face and less from my words. It was a constant problem: too much control or no control at all.

Gillian Flynn

But inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we are.

Anthony Marra

Why do you look so sad?""Because you speak to me in words and I look at you with feelings.

Pierrot le fou

Have you ever wondered What happens to all the poems people write?The poems they neverlet anyone else read?Perhaps they are Too private and personalPerhaps they are just not good enough.Perhaps the prospect of such a heartfeltexpression being seen as clumsyshallow sillypretentious saccharineunoriginal sentimentaltrite boringoverwrought obscure stupidpointless or simply embarrassingis enough to give any aspiringpoet good reason to hide their work frompublic view.forever.Naturally many poems are IMMEDIATELY DESTROYED.Burnt shredded flushed awayOccasionally they are folded Into little squaresAnd wedged under the corner of An unstable piece of furniture(So actually quite useful)Others are hidden behind a loose brickor drainpipe or sealed into the back of an old alarm clockor put between the pages of AN OBSCURE BOOKthat is unlikely to ever be opened.someone might find them one day, BUT PROBABLY NOTThe truth is that unread poetry Will almost always be just that. DOOMED to join a vast invisible river of waste that flows out of suburbia.wellAlmost always.On rare occasions,Some especially insistentpieces of writing will escapeinto a backyard or a lanewaybe blown along a roadside embankmentand finally cometo rest in a shopping centerparking lotas so many things doIt is here that something quite Remarkabletakes placetwo or more pieces of poetry drift toward each otherthrough a strange force of attractionunknown to scienceand ever so slowlycling togetherto form a tiny, shapeless ball.Left undisturbed,this ball graduallybecomes larger and rounder as otherfree versesconfessions secrets stray musings wishes and unsentlove lettersattach themselvesone by one.Such a ball creeps through the streetsLike a tumbleweed for months even yearsIf it comes out only at night it has a goodChance of surviving traffic and childrenand through a slow rolling motionAVOIDS SNAILS(its number one predator)At a certain size, it instinctivelyshelters from bad weather, unnoticedbut otherwise roams the streetssearching for scraps of forgottenthought and feeling.Given time and luckthe poetry ball becomes large HUGE ENORMOUS:A vast accumulation of papery bitsThat ultimately take to the air, levitating byThe sheer force of so much unspoken emotion.It floats gentlyabove suburban rooftops when everybody is asleepinspiring lonely dogsto bark in the middle of the night.Sadlya big ball of papernot matter how large and buoyant, is still a fragile thing.Sooner or LATERit will be surprised bya suddengust of windBeaten by driving rainand REDUCEDin a matter of minutesto a billionsoggy shreds.One morningeveryone will wake upto find a pulpy messcovering front lawnsclogging up guttersand plastering carwindscreens.Traffic will be delayedchildren delightedadults baffledunable to figure outwhere it all came fromStranger stillWill be the Discovery that Every lump of Wet paperContains variousfaded words pressed into accidentalverse.Barely visiblebut undeniably presentTo each reader they will whisper something different something joyfulsomething sadtruthful absurdhilarious profound and perfectNo one will be able to explain the Strange feeling of weightlessnessor the private smilethat remainsLong after the street sweepers have come and gone.

Shaun Tan

I want to say more, but don't know what the words are supposed to be. I feel such a tenderness for these vulnerable night time conversations, the way words take a different shape in the air when there's no room in the air.

David Levithan

Words reveal your beliefs and intentions. Actions reveal your character. When they are in alignment, they reveal your greatest life.

Steve Maraboli

Words are what you fight with but what you fight about is whether or not you’re afraid of them.

David Mitchell

Actions speak louder than voice but words hurt harder than punches

Himmilicious

So many words get lost. They leave the mouth and lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead leaves.

Nicole Krauss

There are words and accents by which this grief can be assuaged, and the disease in a great measure removed.

Horace

A word is used "correctly" when the average hearer will be affected by it in the way intended. This is a psychological, not a literary, definition of "correctness". The literary definition would substitute, for the average hearer, a person of high education living a long time ago; the purpose of this definition is to make it difficult to speak or write correctly.

Bertrand Russell

And most wonderful of all are words, and how they make friends one with another, being oft associated, until not even obituary notices them do part.

o.henry

Words are useless without action. Stop fantasizing and just DO it. Be a "game changer" or get played like an idiot.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

Always remember: No matter how carefully you choose your words, they'll always end up being twisted by others.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

You can lead and motivate people without a certificate or title, what you need to do is to tell people a compelling secret that was only known to you.

Michael Bassey Johnson

PoemWords from the heartBreaking, teaching, healingThe deepest, purest form of artFeeling

Esther Spurrill Jones

Words used to be all I had. Now even they have deserted me.

Trishna B. made it up myself

You may hear bad words but you always use soft words that carry the air of flowers!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Pray. Not just with your words, but with your actions.

Steve Maraboli

And empty words are evil.

Homer

For the time beingWords scatterAre they fallen leaves?

Ruth Ozeki

Family. It was just a word…Could see its letters all strung together. But it was a symbol, too. And people thought they knew what it meant…It was a thing everyone had an opinion about—that it was all you had when you didn’t have anything else, that family was there, that blood was thicker than water, whatever. But when Nailer thought about it, most of these words and ideas just seemed like good excuses for people to behave badly and get away with it. Family wasn’t more reliable than marriages or friendships…maybe less…The blood bond was nothing. It was the people that mattered. If they covered your back, and you covered theirs, then maybe that was worth calling family.

Paolo Bacigalupi

I dread the beginning of her new life more than words can tell, but I see some hope for her if she travels - none if she remains at home.

Wilkie Collins

There is indeed power in words. Most of the lasting change that has been forged in the history of this world came not from a wielding of the swift and bloody sword of battle but from the shaping scalpel of ideas, and what are ideas without the words to deliver them?

Mark Dunn

You stuttered like a kaleidoscope, because you knew too many words.

Stephin Merritt

Words are things. The words he is in possession of he cannot be deprived of. Their authority transcends his ignorance of their meaning.

Cormac McCarthy

Words cannot only be made... But made to have a meaning, free the tongue and continue your speech.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Lovely phrases had lit candles in her mind, one after the other, till she felt intoxicated with the brightness.

Elizabeth Goudge

We inter-change ideas. You can stay in the United States and inspire people in Indonesia. You can stay in Ghana and inspire people in Turkey. You can stay in Nigeria and inspire people in cote'd voire. You can stay in Senegal and inspire people in China and vice versa.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Wisdom is not counted in grammers, niether in fluency, but vividly shown in mannerism.

Michael Bassey Johnson

It is sometimes necessary to use unnecessary words like thank you and please just to make life prettier.

E.L. Konigsburg

My words are not the inspiration, I am the inspiration.

Amit Kalantri

This is why we said 'ain't'and 'he don't'.We wanted words to fitour cold linoleum,our oil lamps, ourouthouse. We knewbetter but it was wrongto use a languagethat named ghosts,nothing you could touch.

Vern Rustsala

YES and NO is just a word but it have big meanings inside it.

Adel Sakura

Thoughts need words. Words need a voice.

Sharon M. Draper

Words are the wellspring of the world, and language is the most powerful weapon in the ancient and still unfolding war between truth and lies.

Dean Koontz

The trouble with words is that no matter how much sense they make in theory, they can’t change what you feel inside.

Rebecca James

Silent words are heard through eyes.

Vikrmn

I have no words to save you.

Julie Berry

There's nothing worthless about being wordless, it will only save your mouth from talking gibberish.

Michael Bassey Johnson

... a man needs no camel to ride to hell, yea, nor horse, nor mule; a man may ride into hell on his tongue...

Terry Pratchett

Conversations are like dances. Two people effortlessly move in step with one another, usually anticipating the other person's next move. If one of the dancers moves in an unexpected direction, the other typically adapts and builds on the new approach. As with dancing, it is often difficult to tell who is leading and who is following in that the two people are constantly affecting each other. And once the dance begins, it is almost impossible for one person to singly dictate the couple's movement.

James W. Pennebaker

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