Words cut deeper than knives. A knife can be pulled out, words are embedded into our souls.

Words are power. The more words you know and can recognize, use, define, understand, the more power you will have as a human being… The more language you know, the more likely it is that...

… Our language, tiger, our language: hundreds of thousands of available words, frillions of legitimate new ideas… And yet, oh, and yet, we, all of us, spend all our days saying to each other the...

The intricacies, the problems, the trials and tribulations in relationships inspire me to give words to people’s journeys.

To say someone is a vision is to pay them a great compliment. If you say that they look a sight it is a grave insult.

Poetry keeps mein a highly drunken stateof divinity.

The act of true reading is in its very essence democratic. Consider the nature of what happens when we read a book – and I mean, of course, a work of literature, not an instruction...

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...

I’m from the South, and there’s a different understanding of how to chop. There’s a syllable play. It’s a delicate art. Your accent has a lot to do with it. If you’re from a certain...

Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.

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...

Talk like an ambassador (Eph 4:29-30). 1)Consider the person (“only what is helpful for building others up”)2) Consider the problem (“according to their needs”)3) Consider the process (“that it may benefit those who listen”)

words are much stronger than I am.

Alphabet soup is my magic eight ball. Served hot or cold, words are delicious.

The paper is my savior, the pen my blood, to words that shed my world.

I loathe my childhood and all that remains of it.Jean-Paul Sartre, Words

We read to under­stand our intu­ition of the world, to dis­cover that some­one a thou­sand miles and years away has put into words our most inti­mate desires and our most secret fears. Reading is a...

Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.

I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.

Le parole dell’iniquo che è forte penetrano e sfuggono. Egli può adirarsi che tu mostri sospetto di lui, e nello stesso tempo farti sentire che quello di che tu sospetti è certo: può insultare e...

In a manner of speaking, the poem is its own knower, neither poet nor reader knowing anything that the poem says apart from the words of the poem.

In other words, [some small businesses] would be taxed at the 39.6 percent rate or the 36 percent rate, and when the president talks about cutting tax rates for all Americans, one of the biggest...

Talking is great, but don’t ignore the value of listening. Pay attention to the words being spoken. Some people just love the sound of their own voice. And, when another person speaks, they are only...

Words are what you fight with but what you fight about is whether or not you’re afraid of them.

Each word, as someone once wrote, contains the universe.The visible carries all the invisible on its back. Tonight, in the unconditional, what moves in the long-limbed grasses, what touches me As though I didn’t exist?...

I like to use simple words, but in a complicated way.

The ultimate goal of therapy… it’s too hard a question. The words come to me like tranquility, like fulfillment, like realizing your potential.

I have to choose my words carefully because I don’t want to sound like one of those who goes on about how things were better in my day.

When your words enter the material world in the form of ink or on screen, you are immediately afforded the opportunity to judge their worth.

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?

Writing is a lifelong disease. Once contracted, the only prescription is to write constantly in whatever form to express your condition, in whatever construction to carry your words beyond you.

You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.

And you can glance out the window for a moment, distracted by the sound of small kids playing a made-up game in a neighbor’s yard, some kind of kickball maybe, and they speak in your...

When words lose the value… nothing is left!

Take each day in your open palms and close your fists around it. This life is not done with you yet.

Words are like seeds in the hands of a farmer which can only bear fruit when sowed

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.

There is no Frigate like a Book To take us Lands awayNor any Coursers like a Page Of prancing Poetry – This Traverse may the poorest takeWithout oppress of Toll – How frugal is the...

There will be more words written on Twitter in the next two years than contained in all books ever printed.

Yes, but I view Frank’s music as fully composed. In other words, the arrangements can work for any idiom such as a rock band or an orchestra. Frank was a brilliant arranger and could make...

Who needs a large vocabulary when you can just make up any word at any time? It makes life a whole lot more emeaglibop.

Coffee excites my mind in ways not describable my words. The closest approximation is a sperm whale in orgasm, only silent and bubblier.

In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.

In other words, all the highest aims of language are decisively the work of God. They are decisively supernatural. And no amount of poetic effort or expertise in the use of words can bring about...

Thank you to the children whose innocent words encouraged me.

The sounds and rhythms of words are really important to me.

The way he said her name made my heart cramp. In all my years of word collecting, I’ve learned this to be a tried and true fact: I can very often tell how much a...

How old must you be before words can no longer fool you?

There’s no such thing as complete when it comes to stories. Stories are infinite. They are as infinite as worlds.

Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make...