The real trouble is this: giving expression to thought by the observable medium of words is like the work of the silkworm. In being made into silk, the material achieves its value. But in the...

feminine” just because they have their own likes and opinions on things? Things that really don’t matter?

The right word at the right time helps you make sense of the world. It helps, but sometimes not a lot.

Words were only an approximation of meaning. The meaning escaped between the words, dissolved, disappeared, like fog fading away between iron bars.

Land and water are not really separate things, but they are separate words, and we perceive through words.

In a word, literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or...

I think that a lot of things are hard to read if you’re not in the vocabulary flow of that particular discourse. I sometimes forget that even though the words I’m using are fairly ordinary...

If you let your man-made actions to be more frequent than your man-said words you will travail with praise in man-win visions. Do more, say less, win big.

He falls quiet again and tries to understand how he can be saying these things, how it can be that his dark words are coming out into the light and yet he is still alive....

I can read lips. Especially if they have words tattooed on them.

It” was something elusive, darkly shrouded for fear of being usurped, profaned. All the dictionary had to offer seemed meager, pale, lifeless.

Words are wind.

In the process, what must be spoken meets what cannot be said. Each word is a catalyst, requiring the writer to break out forcefully from another story, from the primitive camp where history, society, and...

Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song.

What I do find surprising is that other people do not think in the same way. I find it hard to imagine a world where numbers and words are not how I experience them!

Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.

I want to say more, but don’t know what the words are supposed to be. I feel such a tenderness for these vulnerable night-time conversations, the way words take a different shape in the air...

Words are the wellspring of the world, and language is the most powerful weapon in the ancient and still unfolding war between truth and lies.

No comment” is a comment so I never really understood.

I like the sounds of words. Words are very enjoyable. I like words because they are… seductive. And I like words because they can contain… fantasies.

How could an alphabet—letters that didn’t even mean anything by themselves—be important?But it was important. Our stories, our names, our alphabet. Even Uncle’s newspaper.It was all about words.If words weren’t important, they wouldn’t try so...

Words alone mean nothing, because they can do nothing.

When I say, ‘I can’t stay long, I’m in-between meals,’ that plays differently on the radio than it does in person. So I have to pick material that works because the words are funny, not...

So I kept reading, just to stay alive. In fact, I’d read two or three books at the same time, so I wouldn’t finish one without being in the middle of another — anything to...

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

Choose your words carefully. They reveal your inner character.

They say actions speak louder than words, but in some cases, words hurt a lot more than actions ever could.

Our words are often only vague, inadequate descriptions of our thoughts. Something gets lost in translation every time we try to express our thoughts in words. And when the other person hears our words, something...

As both a fine artist and a graphic designer, I specialize in the visual presentation of words.

Words cannot only be made… But made to have a meaning, free the tongue and continue your speech.

The spoken word has come to dominate many Protestant forms of worship: the words of prayers, responsive readings, Scripture, the sermon, and so forth. Yet the spoken word is perhaps the least effective way of...

What’s the shelf life of a 1931 movie? If it still exists, there will always be film buffs and a niche audience who will want to see it. But in terms of people even understanding...

My father was a man of few words.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

I have no words to save you.

Because sometimes I live in a hurricane of wordsand not one of them can save me.

I first started to sing when I started to talk. As soon as I could form words and sounds together, I was singing.

Writers possess magic. It’s in their words. They compose phrases as powerful as incantations, creating illusions in the minds of readers. These spells make eyes envision things that aren’t real; they make hearts feel things...

Elodin pointed down the street. “What color is that boy’s shirt?””Blue.””What do you mean by blue? Describe it.”I struggled for a moment, failed. “So blue is a name?””It is a word. Words are pale shadows...

Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter.

Read to escape reality . . . Write to embrace it.

Worte können sein wie winzige Arsendosen: sie werden unbemerkt verschluckt, sie scheinen keine Wirkung zu tun, und nach einiger Zeit ist die Giftwirkung doch da.

Some of the most cutthroat auditions you’ll have as an actor are when you’ll have three words to say.

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 useless without action. Stop fantasizing and just DO it. Be a “game changer” or get played like an idiot.

Just let the words fly from your lips and your pen. Give them rhythm and depth and height and silliness. Give them filth and form and noble stupidity. Words are free and all words, light...

I don’t like the word ‘allegorical’, I don’t like the word ‘symbolic’ – the word I really like is ‘mythic’, and people always think that means ‘full of lies’, whereas of course what it really...

The only friends I have are the dead who have bequeathed their writings to me–I have no others.

It’s tough to put it into words. And that’s something that’s rare for me to say.

I look at words as if they were entities, sacred beings. There are words to which I tip my hat when I see them sitting on a page.