If I had my life over again[, ] I’d have thought more about words. And thought about them earlier.

Words, no matter whether they are vocalized and made into sounds or remain unspoken as thoughts, can cast an almost hypnotic spell upon you. You easily lose yourself in them, become hypnotized into implicitly believing...

I’m the wave pushed by the wind, always receding before reaching the shore.

Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.

Actions speak louder than voice but words hurt harder than punches

Many scholars forget, it seems to me, that our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of our sympathy than upon our understanding. The trouble is that very few of...

I find it ridiculous to assign a gender to an inanimate object incapable of disrobing and making an occasional fool of itself.

Thoughts are roots; Words are leaves; Actions are fruits! Every success tree has all working normally!

The word is always a word for others. Words need to be heard. When wegive words to what we are living, these words need to be received andresponded to. A speaker needs a listener. A...

I always knew that words are suitcases with false bottoms.

Prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house.

Hungry for beautiful words, the fox comes rooting around in the hedge, almost too close to the fire. He reads my mind with one glance and is gone. All my poetry is now trotting around...

Never underestimate the power of the words ‘I love you’ or the comfort of a simple hug. Grow your love daily.

The facts that make the world real– these depend on the unreal in order to be recognised by it.

Have you ever noticed how pretty and beautiful words can be? How easy it is to say the things you think someone wants to hear. How you can affect a person’s entire day with just...

Words failed me at the precise moment I thought I was passing my vocabulary test, and I can’t tell you how that made me feel. At the time, I thought I felt, well, I couldn’t...

Einerseits geben Wörter Sinn, andererseits sind sie tauglich, Unsinn zu stiften. Wörter können heilsam oder verletzend sein. Das Wort als Waffe. Sich spreizende, auftrumpfende, mit Bedeutung gemästete Wörter. Manche sind Zungenbrecher, andere lassen erkennen, verschleiern,...

The phrase and the day and the scene harmonized in a chord. Words. Was it their colours? He allowed them to glow and fade, hue after hue: sunrise gold, the russet and green of apple...

It would be much better if I could only stop thinking. Thoughts are the dullest things. Duller than flesh. They stretch out and there’s no end to them and they leave a funny taste in...

People certainly will love what you write, when you represent them in your words.

Words had become overnight just little coins, insignificant and unfreighted, to be exchanged for ribbons, buttons, for an apple or an egg.

Look into words for the tomb of spacewhere beauties & stones & eternities untangle.(…)In them is the flood which bothers the seaand the songs which need no music.Say these words that evolve into silence,whose language...

The words a person reads and hears and repeats become his own, enter his verbal storehouse. When needed they become, even if he does not know it, the clothing for the thoughts to which he...

Words are so ridiculous sometimes. The don’t really mean anything, but they’re all I have.

I realize that I am typically vulnerable only when and where and how much it suits me. I can choose my writer words and even go back and edit.

If I say a word that is angry, he explained, then I should never be surprised by the harm. And if I say something good, then it is like watching my own garden grow, and...

Those extra letters dangling at the ends of words are the genitalia of grammar.

A man’s words reveal, first, the man. The words are not the man, and yet they reveal him faithfully and are to be identified with him. Out of the abundance of the heart, the man...

Words are just words. The evidence is in how you act, how you react.

… it’s all words and only words, and beyond the words there’s nothing… a word, which, like all the others, can only be explained by more words, but since the words we use to explain...

I am not a day dreamer, I am a believer, that after every painful love I have gone through, it is just an experience to crack open the deepest parts of my core and allow...

He was the crazy one who had painted himself black and defeated the world.She was the book thief without the words.Trust me, though, the words were on their way, and when they arrived, Liesel would...

Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see.

… only a seer or a lover would know that I’m making a jewelry of words for you -drawn from your essence -to flash and burn with your fire -so you can bedazzle with your...

So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a...

First they start with name calling and personal attacks and now they have resorted to twisting the words and images of Ronald Reagan.

Okay, let’s put this another way―if what you’re about to say wouldn’t look good permanently engraved on your tombstone, bite your tongue.

Sink every impulse like a bolt. Secure The bastion of sensation. Do not waver Into language. Do not waver in it.

I want our students to be so accustomed to children of other cultures that the words ‘diversity’ and ‘tolerance’ won’t be in their vocabulary. They won’t need them – they’ll live it.

Many times the words I say don’t come out in the papers. I could have as many examples as you want.

Why would a novel – which is all about the inward processes of people’s developing feelings and developing relationships – why would you be able to portray that in pictures with as few words as...

All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long...

Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use.The mere presence in the dictionary of a word like ‘living’ does not mean it necessarily...

In prayer, God doesn’t want your words, he wants your heart. He doesn’t track your eloquence, he treasures your soul.

Utterances of cursed language defiles the hearts and souls of man and many.

Thus, that one can find no place to walk through the breadth of the earth is not because the earth is not tranquil but because the danger to every step of the traveler lies generally...

And so we must dig in to see where raw words and fundamental sounds are buried so that the great silence within can finally be decoded.

Soughing” we call it, fromOld English, no less. How weightlesswords are when nothing will do.

If you cannot value a commitment made by someone else, your own commitments lose their value too.

The integrity of our relationships matters more than the boldness of our words.