Words Quotes - Page 15

He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that anymore than for pride or fear.

William Faulkner

There are some words that once spoken will split the world in two. There would be the life before you breathed them and then the altered life after they'd been said. They take a long time to find, words like that. They make you hesitate. Choose with care. Hold on to them unspoken for as long as you can just so your world will stay intact.

Andrea Levy

The phrase and the day and the scene harmonized in a chord. Words. Was it their colours? He allowed them to glow and fade, hue after hue: sunrise gold, the russet and green of apple orchards, azure of waves, the greyfringed fleece of clouds. No it was not their colours: it was the poise and balance of the period itself. Did he then love the rhythmic rise and fall of words better than their associations of legend and colour? Or was it that, being as weak of sight as he was shy of mind, he drew less pleasure from the reflection of the glowing sensible world through the prism of a language manycoloured and richly storied than from the contemplation of an inner world of individual emotions mirrored perfectly in a lucid supple periodic prose?

James Joyce

Do not depend on good motivator!Find your words of self-motivation!

Toba Beta

A person who doesn’t understand both sides of an issue can’t relate to the side he is trying to sway, so his words will bounce off of them without leaving any impression.

Daniel Willey

You string some letters together, and you make a word. You string some words together, and you make a sentence, then a paragraph, then a chapter. Words have power.

Chloe Neill

Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'.

Charlie Chaplin

It doesn't matter if you and everyone else in the room are thinking it. You don't say the words. Words are weapons. They blast big bloody holes in the world. And words are bricks. Say something out loud and it starts turning solid. Say it loud enough and it becomes a wall you can't get through.

Richard Kadrey

Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound,Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found.

Alexander Pope

It's strange how a word, a phrase, a sentence, can feel like a blow to the head.

Veronica Roth

I am no poet. I do not love words for the sake of words. I love words for what they can accomplish. Similarly, I am no arithmetician. Numbers that speak only of numbers are of little interest to me.

Patrick Rothfuss

Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words.I don't believe in "sadness", "joy", or "regret".Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that is oversimplifies feeling. I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions.

Jeffrey Eugenides

In the end, it is my belief, words are the only things that can construct a world that makes sense.

Kate Atkinson

Only write to me, write to me, I love to see the hop and skip and sudden starts of your ink.

A.S. Byatt

The beauty of this idea is that my decision to keep Peeta alive at the expense of my own life is itself an act of defiance. A refusal to play the Hunger Games by the Capitol's rules. My private agenda dovetails completely with my public one. And if I really could save Peeta... in terms of a revolution, this would be ideal. Because I will be more valuable dead. They can turn me into some kind of martyr for the cause and paint my face on banners, and it will do more to rally people than anything I could do if I was living. But Peeta would be more valuable alive, and tragic, because he will be able to turn his pain into words that will transform people.

Suzanne Collins

Everything that goes into my mouth seems to make me fat, everything that comes out of my mouth embarrasses me.

Gabriel García Márquez

But who has time to write memoirs? I’m still living my memoirs.

Rebecca Wells

I find it ridiculous to assign a gender to an inanimate object incapable of disrobing and making an occasional fool of itself.

David Sedaris

When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen in the real world, and like spells, they only work if people believe in them.

Hilary Mantel

But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?

L.M. Montgomery

That was the thing about words, they were clear and specific--chair, eye, stone--but when you talked about feelings, words were too stiff, they were this and not that, they couldn't include all the meanings. In defining, they always left something out.

Janet Fitch

We never choose which words to use, for as long as they mean what they mean to mean, we don’t care if they make sense or nonsense.

Norton Juster

Just remember, when someone has an accent, it means that he knows one more language than you do.

Sidney Sheldon

Take care of your words and the words will take care of you.

Amit Ray

When they're gone out of his head, these words, they'll be gone, everywhere, forever. As if they had never been.

Margaret Atwood

The words emerge from her body without her realizing it, as if she were being visited by the memory of a language long forsaken.

Marguerite Duras

It has been noted that actions speak louder than words. Truth is, I have found that during many situations in life, words are just noise... and actions are the ONLY things that speak.

Steve Maraboli

Words aren't made — they grow,' said Anne.

L.M. Montgomery

The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbola never perfectly match. Eros is in between.

Anne Carson

The orange flames waved at the crowd as paper and print dissolved inside them. Burning words were torn from their sentences.

Markus Zusak

All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.

Samuel Beckett

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

Kahlil Gibran

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

Eileen Wilks

English words are like prisms. Empty, nothing inside, and still they make rainbows.

Denis Johnson

That was the hard thing about grief, and the grieving. They spoke another language, and the words we knew always fell short of what we wanted them to say.

Sarah Dessen

She had always wanted words, she loved them, grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape. Whereas I thought words bent emotions like sticks in water.

Michael Ondaatje

Vocabularies are crossing circles and loops. We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or to be confined by.

A.S. Byatt

There's no such thing as complete when it comes to stories. Stories are infinite. They are as infinite as worlds.

Kelly Barnhill

Language does have the power to change reality. Therefore, treat your words as the mighty instruments they are - to heal, to bring into being, to remove, as if by magic, the terrible violations of childhood, to nurture, to cherish, to bless, to forgive - to create from the whole cloth of your soul, true love.

Daphne Rose Kingma

I am master of my spoken words and slave to those which remain unspoken.

Ankita Singhal

Words have their own hierarchy, their own protocol, their own artistic titles, their own plebeian stigmas.

José Saramago

Words should wander and meander. They should fly like owls and flicker like bats and slip like cats. They should murmur and scream and dance and sing.

David Almond

My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn't just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where you've got to duck for your life and aim to kill! Words aren't only bombs and bullets —no, they're little gifts, containing meanings!

Philip Roth

Words could be like food - they felt like something in your mouth. They tasted like something.

Benjamin Alire Sáenz

I want to see the thirstinside the syllablesI want to touch the firein the sound:I want to feel the darknessof the cry. I wantwords as roughas virgin rocks.” - Verb.

Pablo Neruda

Men of few words are the best men."(3.2.41)

William Shakespeare

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

Maggie Stiefvater

No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world

Tom Schulman

The most colorful thing in the world is black and white, it contains all colors and at the same time excludes all.

Vikrmn

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

Patricia Briggs

I’ve always been a word guy, I like weird words and I like American slang and all that and words that are no longer being used… I like to drag them out of the box and wave them around… this is an interesting one, it’s amazing how in addition to punctuation just a little pause in the wrong place can just completely transform the meaning of something.

Tom Waits

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

Anne Rice

I would think for hours how strange it was that some parts of words are silent, just like some parts of our lives. Did the people who wrote the dictionaries decide to mirror language to our lives, or did it just happen that way?

Rene Denfeld

Did your mom ever tell you, ‘If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything’? She was right–and talking nicely also applies when you’re talking to yourself, even inside your head. (339)

Victoria Moran

I have learned that I should be careful with the words I choose to say when I am angry because later, those words always leave a huge wound of regrets in my heart besides hurting the loved ones. Those wounds can't be healed!

Nino Varsimashvili

They can be like the sun, words.They can do for the heart what light can for a field.

San Juan de la Cruz

[Words] cling to the very core of our memories and lie there in silence until a new desire reawakens them and recharges them with loving energy. That is one of the qualities of love that moves me most, their capacity for transmitting love. Like water, words are a wonderful conductor of energy. And the most powerful, transforming energy is the energy of love.

Laura Esquivel

A picture can tell a thousand words,but a few words can change it’s story.

Sebastyne Young

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

Samantha Shannon

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