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.

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

Under every friendship there is a difficult sentence that must be said, in order that the friendship can be survived.

words are much stronger than I am.

A witch relied too much on words ever to go back on them.

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...

A witty saying proves nothing

I search his eyes for the slightest sign of anything, fear, remorse, anger. But there’s only the same look of amusement that ended our last conversation. It’s as if he’s speaking the words again. “Oh, my dear Miss Everdeen. I thought we had agreed not to lie to each other.”He’s right. We did.The point of...

There has to be new words to explain new worlds.

We all have a place within us, that would like to rewrite the way our life was written out for us….That’s why people want to become authors.

Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder. Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels. Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies. Elves are glamorous. They project glamour. Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment. Elves are terrific. They beget terror. The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find...

I foresaw the financial crisis. I get messages in my sleep, in pictures and words. I understood that I have a mission and a role in ensuring human existence. I received a message that people would soon start to go crazy.

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

Don’t bother to argue anything on the Internet. And I mean, ANYTHING…. The most innocuous, innocent, harmless, basic topics will be misconstrued by people trying to deconstruct things down to the sub-atomic level and entirely miss the point…. Seriously. Keep peeling the onion and you get no onion.

Keep my word’ is such a strange expression. At first glance, it just means ‘Be true to what you agreed on. But it could also mean, ‘Hold your words back.’ Keep them in. Let your actions speak instead.

Providing, meaning to a mass of unrelated needs, ideas, words and pictures – it is the designer’s job to select and fit this material together and make it interesting.

A lot of the hip hop artists don’t write music. They write words.

Words can’t fix my life.Words can’t give me a family.Words can’t do jack.You may be a teacher, Ms. Leone, but face it: You don’t know squat.

I love that word. Forever. I love that forever doesn’t exist, but we have a word for it anyway, and use it all the time. It’s beautiful and doomed.

The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.

A word out of place or an interesting choice of vocabulary can spawn a whole character.

War?’ The word held too much definition for three letters.

Bind up thy words that they run not riot, and grow wanton, and gather up sins for themselves in too much talking. Let them be rather confined, and held back within their own banks. An overflowing river quickly gathers mud.

One should always speak sweet words.

Perhaps then one reason why we have no great poet, novelist or critic writing today is that we refuse to allow words their liberty. We pin them down to one meaning, their useful meaning: the meaning which makes us catch the train, the meaning which makes us pass the examination.

They said that love was terrifying and tender, wild and sweet, and none of it made any sense.But now I knew that every mad word was true.

Leave if you must. But leave when you are strong, not weak. Leaving should be a choice and not the only option.

The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading. They took his taper away, and he bred glow-worms to serve his purpose. They took the glow-worms away and he almost burnt the house down with a tinder.

Fiction is like a spider’s web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.

He is forced to coin words himself, and, taking his pain in one hand, and a lump of pure sound in the other (as perhaps the people of Babel did in the beginning), so to crush them together that a brand new word in the end drops out.

Words cannot do justice to the pleasures of a good bookshop. Ironically.(Waterstones Trafalgar Square)

With words at your disposal, you can see more clearly. Finding the words is another step in learning to see.

Whatever you get out of poetry – take it. take it. take it. Words are better off felt than understood.

We focus upon pairs of words very often which are the same in some areas and different in other areas.

poetry. i am not writing it.(make way for me please)it is my skin. dripping with light.

you areso deliciousto my poetic side.

Poems are invisible flowers on my skin.

sometimes i wake upin the middleof the nightand findpoetry splatteredall over my bed.

One can simply never take back the words he spoke.And when you know you unintentionally did hurt someone, instead of letting it go or keeping a distance from that person, you can actually do something to mend the broken. That’s the least we can do, when circumstances never are on our side; we can stick...

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

And so we must dig in to see where raw words and fundamental sounds are buried so that the great silence within can finally be decoded.

The thing he said aloud did not succeed.

Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

Words reveal your beliefs and intentions. Actions reveal your character. When they are in alignment, they reveal your greatest life.

Crash studied her. Sometimes he seemed to understand her silence better than her words.

Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.

I would have to work on the song and figure out how they wanted the song done, because they’re such high-intensity songs. We figure that out first, then I go back and listen to it and go over and rehearse stuff with it and try to get a feel for the words.

It’s all talk til it’s all real walk.

The wound made by hurting with fire will heal but the wound created by harsh words uttered using out tongue leaves an indelible scar.

What you do teaches faster, and has a lasting impression, far beyond what you say.