An expenditure of words without income of ideas will lead to intellectual bankruptcy.

I’m just terrible. At talking. With words.

If I could write directly on a typewriter or a computer, I would do it. But keyboards have always intimidated me. I’ve never been able to think clearly with my fingers in that position. A...

A quote is a story, suspended in a sentence and treasured through time.

But such fine words butter no parsnips.

My cheeks are red hot,my lip still trembles,because I sent my heartto speak; every word of itdelusional and awkward,an exuberance, an abrupt sound.That’s how I spoke, oh, it stillshows on my hot cheeksI’m now carrying...

It has been noted that actions speak louder than words. Truth is, I have found that during many situations in life, words are just noise… and actions are the ONLY things that speak.

Nobody will ever be able to understand the meaning of the measure of his own words.

A Dream Pirate attack is swift and ragged. Like awkward phantoms, the pirates often fly in lurches and jerks, and they usually destroy everything that gets in their way.

In the works of Shakespeare, the most wonderful genius the world has ever known, there is the enormous number of 15,000 different words, but almost 10,000 of them are obsolete or meaningless today.

Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack. Besides, in this random miscellaneous company...

How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of “green”?

I think my characters are more wish fulfillments than they are mirrors. They see things I don’t and live in a world I can only enter through words.

I collect words–they are sweets in the mouth of sound.

Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself with a refuge from all the distress of life; he did...

Sometimes when I’m writing, I wonder if the words have a mind of their own, and if they’re really just using me as a puppet to manifest themselves.

so little of what anything means comes through words.

And she looked upon the mirror that was given as a gift. She hated everything about it, from the circular size of it, to the color, and the wooden frame that held it in place....

We’re now able to show that the words of comfort trigger biological reactions which are the very things that you want, and you can use drugs to get there, or you can use words of...

Words stick, even when we don’t want them to.

The words he said, too, must be human enough to bleed.

It’s true what they say, that words are the true weapons. Those who fight with steel are limited to the strength of their arm, the reach of their blade, and the timing of their strike;...

We live and breathe words.

The only players I hurt with my words are the ones who have an inflated opinion of their ability. I can’t worry about that.

Words – take her with youlet her rest in your rhymesWords – take her awaysomewhere beyond timeWords – ease her breathinglay her softly on the floorthere – let her lingerand listen like ever beforeLeave her...

Words were another sword for the man who wielded them well.

This is one of those things that you can never explain to anyone; that’s what I want to explain – one of those free-association moments with connections that dissolve when you start to try to...

Through words to the meaning of thoughts with no words.

With a certain frustration I knew I spoke too soon, too urgently. I wanted to get out of the way the things I knew to say, wanted to say, the things I’d been thinking, all...

To talk about paintings is not only difficult but perhaps pointless too. You can only express in words what words are capable of expressing– what language can communicate. Painting has nothing to do with that.

Where the bodily presence is weak and the speech contemptible, surely there cannot be error in making written language the medium of better utterance than faltering lips can achieve?

Quotes tell a story. A stringing together of a few words can leave you with an idea that changes the course of your life, and can direct you toward reaching your highest potential as a...

…Negligible Senescence…

I’d tell you what happened, but I can’t remember all of it. And I don’t wanna put words in my dreams thoughts.

I have no special desire to go crawl around in caves, but I really like the word [spelunking] and want to use it in conversation. I do a lot of things just to use words...

We Are The Salt Of The Earth, We should Add Godly Flavour to People’s Lives via Our Words

A thought to ponder: If I couldn’t use words to speak, what would my life be saying?

I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go

Words,words filled the night like the fragrance of invisible flowers.

I saw pearls in her mouth and the velvet cushion of her tongue and I heard the magic words come out of her.

The author recognizes the power of the persecuting tribe referring to members of hers consistently as “snakes” or “roaches”. This dehumanizing language, she realizes, seeps into the subconscious and makes it easier to forget that...

Do you know the feeling when you start reading a new book before the membrane of the last one has had time to close behind you? You leave the previous book with ideas and themes–characters...

We must be careful with our words – we’re like superheroes and words are like our super powers. Super powers should always be used to help others…

Do you know that even when you look at a tree and say, `That is an oak tree’, or `that is a banyan tree’, the naming of the tree, which is botanical knowledge, has so...

The words we choose to use when we communicate with each other, carry vibrations. The word ‘war’ carries a whole different vibration than the word ‘peace’. The words we use are showing how we think...

Sometimes we don’t need words. Rather, it’s words that need us.

The power of words is in the works of words. People are much more bonded by the works of words than words. The work of words is the trigger of words.

All words are possible, then, all names. They rain down, all these words, they disintegrate into a powdery avalanche. Belched from the volcano’s mouth, they spurt in to the sky, then fall again. In the...

I had lines inside me, a string of guiding lights. I had language. Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal is the rupture reality makes on the imagination. I had been damaged, and...

Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.