sideways” comes out straight.

Superfluous is just too super. I feel like the word needs something extra, like a cape.

Sticks and stones may break your bones but words will never hurt. Lies. Words hurt. The words we remember. Well, the hurt feeling the words caused stays with us forever.

But words mattered, more so in Newark than many other places. In a world where income and possessions were limited, words represented dignity, pride, self-worth.

I was really tired of words like ‘plus size,’ ’round’ and ‘large.’ I thought, ‘Come on, we’re fat.’

Good words cool more than cold water.

My words are like axe don’t dare to interferes with your finger.

Confusion is a web of words.

How can anyone underestimate the ballistic quality of words? Invisible things happen in intangible moments. What should keep us writing is precisely that possibility of explosions

These days, you have the option of staying home, blogging in your underwear, and not having your words mangled. I think I like the direction things are headed.

I like good strong words that mean something…

Words know how to suffocate lies to exhale the truth.

Perfection is an unattainable goal. It isn’t going to be perfect. Just get words down on paper, and when you stumble to what you think is the end of the book, you will have hundreds...

I don’t believe in signs. I believe in words, and action, and doing. And what you’re doing is sitting and waiting and that is one hundred percent unacceptable.

She liked the word ineffable because it meant a feeling so big or vast that it could not be expressed in words.And yet, because it could not be expressed in words, people had invented a...

I have written a few children’s books. The first book that I wrote was for children. It was called ‘The Package’, and it was a mystery story in pictures. It had no words.

I want to see the thirstinside the syllablesI want to touch the firein the sound:I want to feel the darknessof the cry. I wantwords as roughas virgin rocks.” – Verb.

People don’t follow words; they follow conviction and without conviction the words are meaningless.

I have hated the words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right. – Liesel Meminger

Words are never insufficient to describe any situation. It is the talent to use the words which is the insufficient one!

I find that is the best way to write during emotional scenes…put yourself and your emotions in every single word.-Nina Jean Slack

Faeces by any other name would smell as gross

The crazy thing about poetry is how its simplicity makes it complicated.

Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating … but there are other ways to understanding.

The great words never die… and so does the soul of its author.

I’m not putting words in his mouth, but if I hired – say – my son, I would be tougher on him than the normal guy. As I analyzed the situation, that’s how I viewed...

The only words free of suspicious motives will be the ones I find in books.

I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised.

Speak you too,speak as the last,say out your say.Speak-But don’t split off No from Yes.Give your say this meaning too:Give it the shadow.Give it shadow enough,Give it as muchAs you know is spread round you...

Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.

I was a brat. It was crazy, I was very picky. In other words, I didn’t take advantage of what was happening.

People talk a lot but they rarely say anything.

The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.

To be sure, Kennedy did not discount the importance of words in rallying the nation to meet its foreign and domestic challenges. Winston Churchill’s powerful exhortations during World War II set a standard he had...

What a curious power words have.

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...

Othalas: Words. What are they but shadows on a page or howling on the wind? They are as ever-changing as the mists below us and it is just as easy to lose sense of yourself...

That’s how ideas and the institutions they generate come to be in the first place. It is in strings of words that we make ideas. The words, however, can say anything that the language permits,...

I don ‘ t have words to describe what ‘ s going on here,

He’d call me false and faithless and I’ve always had a weakness for those two words; next to cruel, they’re the nicest words for a woman to hear, and not so hard to earn.

Words have power, you understand? It is in the nature of our universe. Our library itself distorts time and space on quite a grand scale. Well, when the Post Office started accumulating letters, it was...

Words used to be all I had. Now even they have deserted me.

I really just don’t have the words for it. It’s so sweet and I’m so thankful.

Words of war, on a piece of paper. Where peace is torn off, crumbled and toss in the waste basket.

And there was never a better time to delve for pleasure in language than the sixteenth century, when novelty blew through English like a spring breeze. Some twelve thousand words, a phenomenal number, entered the...

Word-banning seems to be a trend of late. It’s become fashionable to try to ban words we’re uncomfortable with, which you really can’t do in the first place. You can no more ban a word...

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[Everything you write is] not simply a collection of words, but a means of influence not to be taken lightly. Let your recipient’s emotions be the gondola, and your words, its gondolier.

When you speak, your words echo only across the room or down the hall. but when you write, your words echo down the ages.

Comedians are innately programmed to pick up oddities like mispronounced words, upside-down books on a shelf, and generally undetectable mistakes in everyday life.