words are like nets – we hope they’ll cover what we mean, but we know they can’t possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder.

I love cover songs, but I always mess up the words!

But the more I think about it, the more I think PC words are a crock of shit. If I want to describe something using a stupid word, I should.

We have an odd relationship with words. We learn a few when we are small, throughout our lives we collect others through education, conversation, our contact with books, and yet, in comparison, there are only...

True humility is expressed in deeds, not words. The humble are those who truly walk the same ground as everyone else – not necessarily with grovelling, hunched backs, but certainly not lording it over others,...

Where do the words gowhen we have said them?

She couldn’t tell exactly where the words came from. What mattered was that they reached her. They arrived and kneeled next to her bed.

…I gave you painted air – tears I couldn’t weep – truths I couldn’t speak – all the words that caught in my throat…

Chocolate says “I’m sorry” so much better than words.

The stitch of a book is its words.

But my question is, am I compromising by adapting my words for the audience and where is the line beyond which I am not adapting words, but changing my position?

For she was the only one, of all of them, to have spared me a pleasant word; and suddenly I longed for time to pass, not for its own sake, but as it would take...

‘Give up… it’s time to quit,’ I don’t think I’ve ever really accepted those kinds of words in my life or vocabulary.

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

When something happens to you that is beyond words, life is happening to you. When the Ultimate is happening to you, you are beyond words.

Words are the clothes thoughts wear.

Men of the world who value the Way all turn to books. But books are nothing more than words. Words have value; what is of value in words is meaning. Meaning has something it is...

It is doubtful whether a supreme master of style could pack all the elements of truth that complete justice would demand into a hundred word account of what had happened in Korea during the course...

Nothing is ever over when it is alive inside a human heart. You’ll always be an echo in my words.

The biggest public health challenge is rebuilding health systems. In other words, if you look at cholera or maternal mortality or tuberculosis in Haiti, they’re major problems in Haiti, but the biggest problem is rebuilding...

Sensuality came into existence the moment when the first beat of melody knocked on the door of the world of belly dance.

Poems are invisible flowers on my skin.

There are two words for everything.

But you will never realize that an incident which filled but a degree in the circle of your thoughts covered the whole circumference of mine. No person can see exactly what and where another’s horizon...

Sometimes, when people speak, I cease listening to their words and zoom in instead on the cadence, and it can seem lovely, and at other times absurd, all this verbiage, these seemingly random consonants clattering...

Distance and time might keep people apart, but the heart and mind will always stay connected by memories, miracles and the power of two unlikely souls that were destined to meet.

Men use thought only to justify their wrong-doings, and words only to conceal their thoughts.

Say something worth the words.

Few pleasures, for the true reader, rival the pleasure of browsing unhurriedly among books: old books, new books, library books, other people’s books, one’s own books – it does not matter whose or where. Simply...

I didn’t know how to say goodbye. Words were stupid. They said so little. Yet they opened up holes you could fall into and never climb out of again.

Like an arrow to its mark flies the word good man’s word.

Words of affirmation are powerful. Words change lives; words and ideas change the world.

There is no privilege in restriction. In other words, I disagree with people who say restriction makes you more creative. I think that’s a misleading slogan. I might have been more creative without them than...

I think when you’re acting, you usually don’t have to know too much beyond how to pronounce the words you’re saying.

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

When you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and the virtuous.

A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.

MarginaliaSometimes the notes are ferocious,skirmishes against the authorraging along the borders of every pagein tiny black script.If I could just get my hands on you,Kierkegaard, or Conor Cruise O’Brien,they seem to say,I would bolt the...

He was a writer and words were his weapons.

I never met a word I didn’t love

Dads. It’s time to tell our kids that we love them. Constantly. It’s time to show our kids that we love them. Constantly. It’s time to take joy in their twenty-thousand daily questions and their...

People do not want words – they want the sound of battle – the battle of destiny.

I was a very bad journalist. Awful. I would just invent everything. If I did an interview, I had a preconception of what that person should say and I would put my words in his...

Sometimes, silence speaks louder than words. Just because it is peaceful, it doesn’t mean it is still and void, as a few may think. It is insightful, powerful and full of meaning. It is when...

Words and a book and a belief that the world is words…

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own voice… and just as the touch of a button on our set will...

Words were sometimes like ammo. They could strike you with fear worse than an arrow. And worse was sometimes knowing ahead a time what the words were.

You see how I tryTo reach with wordsWhat matters mostAnd how I fail.

If you have Microsoft Word, you can become a writer tonight. Just start typing!