…why is my cat a Muse? the cat has the rare grace of never saying a word too much― Mark Twain …that’s why …

They can be like the sun, words.They can do for the heart what light can for a field.

Not in books only, nor yet in oral discourse, but often also in words there are boundless stores of moral and historic truth, and no less of passion and imagination laid up, from which lessons...

Four-letter words have always offended me. I cringe at hearing them. Can’t, don’t, and won’t are the worst.

She said, ‘It is filled with all the words for how I want you.

So this is what I amPondering his eyes that could notConceive that I was a creature to run fromI who have always believed too much in words

Not enough youths fighting windmills. And the old are fearful, jaded or dead. Do not ask me what to do. I am just as cowardly as you. And do not tell me it is enough...

But there were too many points at which the other self could invade the self he wanted to preserve, and there were too many forms of invasion: certain words, sounds, lights, actions his hands or...

It is convenient to distinguish the two kinds of experience which have thus been described, the experienc-ing and the experienc-ed, by technical words.

It was the look on her face when she said it. And how much she meant it. It suddenly made everything seem like it really was. I felt terrible. Just terrible.

Men command fewer words than they have ideas to express, and language, as Jean Paul said, is a dictionary of faded metaphors.

We open our mouths and out flow words whose ancestries we do not even know. We are walking lexicons. In a single sentence of idle chatter we preserve Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Norse; we carry a museum...

Crash studied her. Sometimes he seemed to understand her silence better than her words.

He is neither manifest nor hidden, He is neither revealed nor unrevealed: there are no words to tell that which He is. He is without form, without quality, without decay.

i am alwaysstalking you, my dear. with my thoughtsmy words.my breath.

Silence is most meaningful.

What words cannot convey … the mind can read.

I’d always admired writers. I’d always loved words on a page. Somehow, words seemed to bypass image and get straight to the heart of things. Somehow, words seemed big enough to contain pain, and sentences...

I don’t think I have the words to describe what that city is going to be like if we’re able to pull that off.

The beauty of this idea is that my decision to keep Peeta alive at the expense of my own life is itself an act of defiance. A refusal to play the Hunger Games by the...

For Hood’s sake,’ the foreigner muttered. ‘What’s wrong with words?’ ‘With words,’ said Redmask, turning away, ‘meanings change.’ ‘Well,’ Anaster Toc said, following as Redmask made his way back to his army’s camp,.. ‘that is...

The four most dangerous words to accomplishing your dreams are: “I’ll do it later.”

I have a sort of . . . thing, I suppose, for certain words. They spark inside me, somehow, turning me to touchpaper, but I don’t know what they are until someone says them.

Words will only ruin you, if you allow them.

You can get much further with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.

Why do you look so sad?””Because you speak to me in words and I look at you with feelings.

But like balloons, they were excessively buoyant, and if you weren’t careful, they floated away.

A man is no more than breath until his breath fashions the words that others cannot forget.

Vocabularies are crossing circles and loops. We are defined by the lines we choose to cross or to be confined by.

Many people can and have written books, but many have nothing to say.

Hariri received many threats. Assad told me he had delivered some very, very harsh words to Hariri … something like ‘I will crush anyone who tries to disobey us’.

What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. A convention is a social convenience, as, for example, money … but it is...

Since there is no real silence, Silence will contain all the sounds, All the words, all the languages, All knowledge, all memory.

I’m interested in everything. I don’t see why Borges can’t work along with Neil Gaiman, or Stephen King can’t be mixed with Balzac. It’s just storytelling; it’s different ways of using codes and images and...

The music lets me see the story but the story doesn’t let me write the words.

Words will never fully capture what is alive in our hearts.It would be a shame, though, if we denied our bears their dancing.

We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide....

Hopefully, when your actions and deeds – and therefore other people – boast for you, you’re made tired of hearing it, too, from your own mouth because if not, all could lose sight of those...

The words sounded like a mournful incantation.

Every word you’ve ever said, is written somewhere in my mind.

A lot of the younger kids now can rap, but they’re scared of the crowd. Mastery of that stage is an MC. I don’t know if you’ve seen any great MCs on stage but when...

To maintain your integrity, just maintain your words in sanctity, and your works in sincerity. You can’t be really trusted when your works of today are standing against your words of yesterday!

I am a writer….a master of words.’Like a knife, words should be handled carefully. They can cut deeply, the wound may never heal, and the scar can remain for an eternity.

Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.

Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.

Your mind is definitely not meant to entertain and shelter any thought that goes against your positive desires. You should always be on guard against all self-defeating thoughts and words.

The sign stopped me– or rather, this text stopped me. Words are my profession; I seized these and demanded that they explain themselves, that they cease to be ambiguous.

Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.

In my mind, numbers and words are far more than squiggles of ink on a page. They have form, color, texture and so on. They come alive to me, which is why as a young...

Your words are energy. If you don’t speak them, then you will drink them. Swallow that thought, but do not gargle it.