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

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...

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.

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.

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...

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...

I can’t put it into words. It’s an adrenaline rush. I think you have to be a quarterback with scrambling ability to understand it.

Let deeds match words.

‎Without a knowledge of where words come from, things disappear, history is lost.

There is nothing I detest so much as the contortions of these great time-and-lip servers, these affable dispensers of meaningless embraces, these obliging utterers of empty words, who view every one in civilities

Why certainly, words possess power. They do! But releasing their magic requires combining and arranging those words in the right order.

Powerful words harmonize heart and mind as if a symphony.

Defunctus adhuc loquitur” (Hebrews 11:4). Thanks to language, there is meaning, there is truth.

The problem in our country isn’t with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Surely it is an odd way to spend your life – sitting alone in a room with a pen in your hand, hour after hour, day after day, year after year, struggling to put words...

But he had turned, little by little, a disturbance into words, he had made a pillow of old words, for his head.

I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print, the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful big green fig-tree.

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

I looked up fairness in the dictionary and it was not there.

I long ago abandoned myself to a blind lust for the written word. Literature is my sandbox. In it I play, build my forts and castles, spend glorious time.

If the power of love is in your heart then dance away to a universe beyond the stars.

some words bring warmthjust bybeing next to each other.

Words can be powerful allies. Or enemies

I am completely unflustered by whichever medium people choose to read my words. I’m just delighted they’re reading them at all!

The Best Sword that Kills without a Wound:- Words…!

On one level, I would prefer never to hear the words ‘James Bond’ again, but on another level, it is part of my blood and my life. And it’s the only movie in the world...

He had some taste for romance reading before he went to the university, where, we must confess, in justice to his college, he was cured of the love of reading in all its shapes; and...

object,” no form that stops at a boundary, only a stream of manifold, precise, and nameless sensations, shifting into one another, pullulating, a fullness, a flow. Stripped of words, untamed, the universe pours in on...

The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.

Hear the words of prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims are universal, and all the virtues lean upon her; she is the guide and the mistress of...

Words. Just little black marks on paper. Just sounds in the empty air. But think of the power they have! They can make you laugh or cry, love or hate, fight or run away. They...

Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.

words failed.” But words were not failing us at all. It was not true that there was no way to describe our experience. We had plenty of language to talk to each other about the...

Words don’t always work. Sometimes they come up short. Conversations can lead to conflict. There are failures of diplomacy. Some differences, for all the talk in the world, remain irreconcilable. People make empty promises, go...

See, the thing about that word, Sharkey, the F-word, is that sometimes I make that word do too much work. I mean, I say that word as if it clearly articulates what I’m really feeling....

What do you think was the first sound to become a word, a meaning?…I imagined two people without words, unable to speak to each other. I imagined the need: The color of the sky that...

What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside...

Books are readable drugs.