Words Quotes - Page 13

Around a child, people come and go, objects appear and are taken away, surroundings take shape and disintegrate. And no explanation is given, because how can you explain the world to a child?So she had used the words. Words call forth and secure that which has gone away. With her lists she had ensured that whatever she had once known would come back

Peter Høeg

Words make known. But we live in the unknown.

Marty Rubin

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

Sorin Cerin

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

Mary Balogh

I once ran across a list of nearly 400 winds from around the world and wondered why Wyoming, so dominated by wind, has so few names for its variations. . . . There's the wind, the damned wind, and the goddamned wind.

Teresa Jordan

Our view of man will remain superficial so long as we fail to go back to that origin [of silence], so long as we fail to find, beneath the chatter of words, the primordial silence, and as long as we do not describe the action which breaks this silence. the spoken word is a gesture, and its meaning, a world.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

Tyler's words coming out of my mouth. I used to be such a nice person.

Chuck Palahniuk

If you believe what you say, words become reality.

Ingrid Betancourt

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

Roberto Bolaño

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?

Nema Al-Araby

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.

Silas House

Good words were the difference between Emily eating well and not. And what she had found worked best were not facts or arguments but words that tickled people’s brains for some reason, that just amused them. Puns, and exaggerations, and things that were true and not at the same time.

Max Barry

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.

Aldous Huxley

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.

Mark A. Rayner

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

Chimnese Davids

For Hood's sake,' the foreigner muttered. 'What's wrong with words?' 'With words,' said Redmask, turning away, 'meanings change.' 'Well,' Anaster Toc said, following as Redmask made his way back to his army's camp,.. 'that is precisely the point. That's their value - their ability to adapt -' 'Grow corrupt, you mean. The Letheri are masters at corrupting words, their meanings. They call war peace, they call tyranny liberty. On which side of the shadow you stand decides a word's meaning. Words are the weapons used by those who see others with contempt. A contempt which only deepens when they how those others are deceived and made into fools because they choose to believe. Because in their naivety they thought the meaning of a word was fixed, immune to abuse.

Steven Erikson

Forms disappear, words remain, to signify the impossible.

Augusto Roa Bastos

The sign stopped me-- or rather, this text stopped me. Words are my profession; I seized these and demanded that they explain themselves, that they cease to be ambiguous.

Daniel Quinn

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

L.M. Montgomery

Somewhere embedded in every ordinary book are the five or six words for which really all the rest will be written.

G.K. Chesterton

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

Enid Bagnold

Words are only words

Jude Morgan

The dictionary is an ossuary of empty words.

Augusto Roa Bastos

Naming enables the noble-minded to speak, and speech enables the noble-minded to act. Therefore, the noble-minded are anything but careless in speech.

Confucius

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

Edmond Manning

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

Sally Gardner

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 ...

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Words can be medicines; they can also be poisons. Words can heal; they can also kill... It all depends on how, when and where they are use and against whom! Let us not abuse our words. It's a misuse of the tongue!

Israelmore Ayivor

He walked, groping for a sentence that hung in his mind as an empty shape. He could neither fill it or dismiss it.

Ayn Rand

The words sounded like a mournful incantation.

Dan Simmons

The great wheel of fire of ancient wisdom, silence and word engendering the myth of the origin, human action engendering the epic voyage toward the other; historical violence revealing the tragic flaw of the hero who must then return to the land of origin; myth of death and renewal and silence from which new words and images will arise, keeps on turning in spite of the blindness of purely lineal thought.

Carlos Fuentes

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

Marty Rubin

Sky, wait.” The way his voice wraps around my name makes me wish the only word in his entire vocabulary way Sky.

Colleen Hoover

Our own place is mall perhaps, but when your old man is eaten by his own shadow, you realise that maybe in every house, something so savage and sad and brilliant is standing up, without the world even seeing it.Maybe that's what these pages of words are about:Bringing the world to the window.

Markus Zusak

[W]e talk about the tyranny of words, but we like to tyrannise over them too; we are fond of having a large superfluous establishment of words to wait upon us on great occasions; we think it looks important, and sounds well. As we are not particular about the meaning of our liveries on state occassions, if they be but fine and numerous enough, so, the meaning or necessity of our words is a secondary consideration, if there be but a great parade of them. And as individuals get into trouble by making too great a show of liveries, or as slaves when they are too numerous rise against their masters, so I think I could mention a nation that has got into many great difficulties, and will get into many greater, from maintaining too large a retinue of words.

Charles Dickens

I love bright words, words up and singing early;Words that are luminous in the dark, and sing;Warm lazy words, white cattle under trees;I love words opalescent, cool, and pearly,Like midsummer moths, and honied words like bees, Gilded and sticky, with a little sting.

Elinor Wylie

The pages and the words are my world, spread out before your eyes and for your hand to touch. Vaguely, I can see you face looking down into me, as I look back. Do you see my eyes?

Markus Zusak

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.

Elizabeth Eulberg

The wise man reveals more than words spoken.

Toba Beta

All things human begin with words.

David Rains Wallace

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.

Helen Oyeyemi

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

Sue Miller

I always knew that words are suitcases with false bottoms.

Hans Keilson

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Ernest Hemingway

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.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Here is the time for the sayable, here is its home.Speak and attest. More than everthe things we can live with are falling away,and ousting them, filling their place, a will with no image.Will beneath crusts which readily crackwhenever the act inside swells and seeks new borders.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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

Nema Al-Araby

I have no special desire to go crawl around in caves, but I really like the word [spelunking] and want to use it in conversation. I do a lot of things just to use words I like.

Evan Mandery

Words never fail. We hear them, we read them; they enter into the mind and become part of us for as long as we shall live. Who speaks reason to his fellowmen bestows it upon them. Who mouths inanity disorders thought for all who listen. There must be some minimum allowable dose of inanity beyond which the mind cannot remain reasonable. Irrationality, like buried chemical waste, sooner or later must seep into all the tissues of thought.

Richard Mitchell

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

Toba Beta

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

Chris Medina

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

Gabriella Jording

He only had the imperfect medium of words.

Sara Gruen

Talk like an ambassador (Eph 4:29-30). 1)Consider the person ("only what is helpful for building others up")2) Consider the problem ("according to their needs")3) Consider the process ("that it may benefit those who listen")

Timothy S. Lane

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

Frances O'Roark Dowell

Sometimes you take all my words away from me.

Amie Kaufman

A picture tells a thousand words. But you get a thousand pictures from someone's voice.

Paul Fleischman

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")

Algernon Blackwood

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

Paul Grimsley

Talking about one's feelings defeats the purpose of having those feelings. Once you try to put the human experience into words, it becomes little more than a spectator sport. Everything must have a cause, and a name. Every random thought must have a root in something else.

Derek Landy

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