Words Quotes - Page 16

Tears are the noble language of eyes, and when true love of words is destitute. The eye by tears speak, while the tongue is mute.

Words are like arrows, Arianne. Once loosed, you cannot call them back.

George R.R. Martin

Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness.

We have too many high sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them.

Do actions agree with words? There's your measure of reliability. Never confine yourself to the words.

Words could betray you if you chose the wrong ones, or mean less if you used too many. Jokes could be grandly miscalculated, or stories deemed boring, and I'd learned early on that my sense of humor and ideas about what sorts of things were fascinating didn't exactly overlap with my friends'.

Robyn Schneider

A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.

Herman Melville

She kept watching the words.

WORDS IN THE HEART CANNOT BE TAKEN.

Terry Pratchett

I have packed myself into silence so deeply and for so long that I can never unpack myself using words. When I speak, I only pack myself a little differently.

A man with a scant vocabulary will almost certainly be a weak thinker. The richer and more copious one's vocabulary and the greater one's awareness of fine distinctions and subtle nuances of meaning, the more fertile and precise is likely to be one's thinking. Knowledge of things and knowledge of the words for them grow together. If you do not know the words, you can hardly know the thing.

Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.

What a gulf between impression and expression! That’s our ironic fate—to have Shakespearean feelings and (unless by some billion-to-one chance we happen to be Shakespeare) to talk about them like automobile salesmen or teen-agers or college professors. We practice alchemy in reverse—touch gold and it turns into lead; touch the pure lyrics of experience, and they turn into the verbal equivalents of tripe and hogwash.

People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.

William Faulkner

In a world where vows are worthless.Where making a pledge means nothing. Where promises are made to be broken, it would be nice to see words come back into power.

Chuck Palahniuk

Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire.

But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.

Haruki Murakami

Words are loneliness.

I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can.

Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .

Words, he decided, were inadequate at best, impossible at worst. They meant too many things. Or they meant nothing at all.

Patricia A. McKillip

Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know more.

Confucius

Words are wind.

George R.R. Martin

The Yogic sages say that all the pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy. We create words to define our experience and those words bring attendant emotions that jerk us around like dogs on a leash. We get seduced by our own mantras (I'm a failure... I'm lonely... I'm a failure... I'm lonely...) and we become monuments to them. To stop talking for a while, then, is to attempt to strip away the power of words, to stop choking ourselves with words, to liberate ourselves from our suffocating mantras.

Elizabeth Gilbert

The next time you try to seduce anyone, don't do it with talk, with words. Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.

William Faulkner

Lying is done with words, and also with silence.

Don't say it was delightful; make us say delightful when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers Please will you do the job for me.

Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating ... but there are other ways to understanding.

Patrick Rothfuss

When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing.

But words are things, and a small drop of ink,Falling, like dew, upon a thought producesThat which makes thousands, perhaps millions think.

George Gordon Byron

Gone. The saddest word in the language. In any language.

You can only fit so many words in a postcard, only so many in a phone call, only so many into space before you forget that words are sometimes used for things other than filling emptiness.

Sarah Kay

Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

Orson Scott Card

I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with shades of deeper meaning.

How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.

David Foster Wallace

The words. Why did they have to exist? Without them, there wouldn't be any of this.

Sometimes not speaking says more than all the words in the world.

Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.

William Faulkner

It is not that the meaning cannot be explained. But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.

Haruki Murakami

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

Ernest Hemingway

He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.

The words with which a child's heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner or later they burn his soul.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Rudyard Kipling

For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice.

T.S Eliot

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.

Patrick Rothfuss

She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.

Michael Ondaatje

That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.

I like good strong words that mean something…

Louisa May Alcott

Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.

Anne Bradstreet

I believe in the magic and authority of words.

I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of the hunger for life that gnaws in us all.

Because even the smallest of words can be the ones to hurt you, or save you.

Through words to the meaning of thoughts with no words.

Dejan Stojanovic

Eternity is a glorious word, but eternity is ice.

Dejan Stojanovic

When the long bygone Lee Po wanted to say something, he could do it with only a few words.

Dejan Stojanovic

All those big words produce disgust today.

Dejan Stojanovic

How many unuttered words died in the heads of those for whom a word was too expensive.

Dejan Stojanovic

Is it possible to write a poem or are these words just screams of outlaws exiled to the desert?

Dejan Stojanovic

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