If spirit is the seed, dance is the water of its evolution.

After awhile you realize that putting your actions where your mouth is makes you less likely to have to put your money where your mouth is.

When you realize the awesome power of words, you can change lives.

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

A good writer is impatient on behalf of the reader. They ruthlessly eliminate unnecessary information and needless words. They are respectful of the reader’s time by only including what matters.

Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools

It is true that words have power, and one of the things they are able to do is get out of someone’s mouth before the speaker has the chance to stop them.

Old words are reborn with new faces.

Words alone can effect great good as well as evil. A few apt words have swept candidates into office, ended as well as started wars, paved the way for peace and carried with them both...

To keep the air fresh among words is the secret of verbal cleanliness.

Words, with their multiple meanings and nuances are like trees and oral communication like a forest. Trees are good for hiding, forest for losing the path. When one is trying to contemplate the horizon of...

And empty words are evil.

Sometimes poetry–words–give us a small, lovely look at ourselves. And sometimes that is enough.

One suffers in silence so long as one has the strength and when that strength fails one speaks without measuring one’s words much.

Language is the expression of ideas by means of speech-sounds combined into words. Words are combined into sentences, this combination answering to that of ideas into thoughts.

By the way I also would say “I got a book.” But your teacher and I are not “English teachers” in the same sense. She has to put across an idea of what the English...

Sometimes words aren’t needed.

Kids use words in ways that release hidden meanings, revel the history buried in sounds. They haven’t forgotten that words can be more than signs, that words have magic, the power to be things, to...

All words, then, belonging to the inner world of the mind, are of the imagination, are originally poetic words.

A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work of art nearest to life...

Let them see that their words can cut you, and you’ll never be free of the mockery. If they want to give you a name, take it, make it your own. Then they can’t hurt...

As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you’re always ultimately going to be saying somebody else’s words. I don’t think I’d have the stamina, skill or ability to write...

Words are loneliness.

Words themselves are all the ghosts we need.

Her mouth contorted, and the wrinkles around her lips were like the dunes of a frosted cupcake. And I just wanted to lick her living word machine (mouth).

She wished such words unsaid with all her heart

…because if there was one thing he didn’t like it was big words, they just lied and covered things up, those big words, they didn’t let what really was live and breathe but just carried...

The best prayers have often more groans than words.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

Nothing is more common than for men to think that because they are familiar with words they understand the ideas they stand for.

Words can’t save you, but they can give you courage.

Any punishment is an insult to the crime

This feels so good, I don’t have the words. It’s indescribable, indescribable.

deep down” all that means is you’re fooling yourself. You’re seeing what you want to see and not what’s really there.

One of my main techniques for acting is I try to know almost nothing beyond the words that I have to say, because that’s my zone of control.

There are books so alive that you’re always afraid that while you weren’t reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too,...

… she had uttered these words simply in order to provoke a reply in certain other words, which she seemed, indeed, to wish to hear spoken, but, from prudence, would let her friend be the...

We must think things not words, or at least we must constantly translate our words into the facts for which they stand, if we are to keep to the real and the true.

As if he conveyed by actions what he could never say in words. Would never say in words.

Sözcüklere ne kadar dikkat edilse azdır, onlar da insanlar gibi bir fikirden diğerine geçiverirler.

To say “all that which does not exist” is to introduce, effectively, a new concept, but it does not bring into existence anything more than that very concept which it introduces. That is, a certain...

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

You don’t have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.

…good words – that triumphalism of positivity- but life will claw and eat you – chew you over and over – if you carry such a small knife …

Words’, he said, ‘is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life. So you must simply try to be patient and stop squibbling. As I am telling you before, I know exactly what...

To be honest with you, I don’t have one track that I consider better than the next because all I’m trying to do is still grow as an artist. I got way better since the...

Two powerful, little words I’ve learned to use when facing challenges, fears, and doubts—so what?

words…To lure the tribal shoals to epigram / And order.

No critic and advocate of immutability has ever once managed properly or even marginally to outwit the English language’s capacity for foxy and relentlessly slippery flexibility. For English is a language that simply cannot be...

I ate them like salad, books were my sandwich for lunch, my tiffin and dinner and midnight munch. I tore out the pages, ate them with salt, doused them with relish, gnawed on the bindings,...