One should always speak sweet words.

His prose, like the thinking it reveals, is full of cloudy suggestions of something beyond the range of mere cognition. He has been given power, if not over the entities and dyads, certainly over the...

Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and nonverbal expression.

This is why we said ‘ain’t’and ‘he don’t’.We wanted words to fitour cold linoleum,our oil lamps, ourouthouse. We knewbetter but it was wrongto use a languagethat named ghosts,nothing you could touch.

I”divides me from God.

My words are not a form of free advice. They are born through my journey called life!

We have too many high sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them.

But the greatest cause of verbicide is the fact that most people are obviously far more anxious to express their approval and disapproval of things than to describe them. Hence the tendency of words to...

I stretched to reach the words, but my hands were too small to carry them home.

What a gulf between impression and expression! That’s our ironic fate—to have Shakespearean feelings and (unless by some billion-to-one chance we happen to be Shakespeare) to talk about them like automobile salesmen or teen-agers or...

I’m a very goal-oriented person in certain ways, and then in certain ways I understand that there’s nothing at all that I can do about certain things. In other words, I would never set a...

Real-time action of the leaders inspires the followers and the support-seeking word of the followers motivates the leaders.

If the word doesn’t exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn’t exist.

She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.

When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment to discover plain truths or to reject absurdities and palpable contradictions.

Well, there are certain words and emotions I don’t want kids hearing, and I’m not changing because they think it’s going to sell better. This is going to sound horrible, but I got 12 million...

There is only as much space, only as much time, Only as much desire, only as many words, Only as many pages, only as much ink To accept all of us at light-speed Hurrying into...

What’s more amazing is how we habitually take the power ofour voice for granted. When we bring our awareness to our voiceand learn to express it in new ways—with impeccability—werediscover our true message. Your voice...

The real trouble is this: giving expression to thought by the observable medium of words is like the work of the silkworm. In being made into silk, the material achieves its value. But in the...

feminine” just because they have their own likes and opinions on things? Things that really don’t matter?

The right word at the right time helps you make sense of the world. It helps, but sometimes not a lot.

Words were only an approximation of meaning. The meaning escaped between the words, dissolved, disappeared, like fog fading away between iron bars.

Land and water are not really separate things, but they are separate words, and we perceive through words.

In a word, literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book-friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or...

I think that a lot of things are hard to read if you’re not in the vocabulary flow of that particular discourse. I sometimes forget that even though the words I’m using are fairly ordinary...

If you let your man-made actions to be more frequent than your man-said words you will travail with praise in man-win visions. Do more, say less, win big.

He falls quiet again and tries to understand how he can be saying these things, how it can be that his dark words are coming out into the light and yet he is still alive....

I can read lips. Especially if they have words tattooed on them.

It” was something elusive, darkly shrouded for fear of being usurped, profaned. All the dictionary had to offer seemed meager, pale, lifeless.

Words are wind.

In the process, what must be spoken meets what cannot be said. Each word is a catalyst, requiring the writer to break out forcefully from another story, from the primitive camp where history, society, and...

Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song.

What I do find surprising is that other people do not think in the same way. I find it hard to imagine a world where numbers and words are not how I experience them!

Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace.

I want to say more, but don’t know what the words are supposed to be. I feel such a tenderness for these vulnerable night-time conversations, the way words take a different shape in the air...

Words are the wellspring of the world, and language is the most powerful weapon in the ancient and still unfolding war between truth and lies.

No comment” is a comment so I never really understood.

I like the sounds of words. Words are very enjoyable. I like words because they are… seductive. And I like words because they can contain… fantasies.

How could an alphabet—letters that didn’t even mean anything by themselves—be important?But it was important. Our stories, our names, our alphabet. Even Uncle’s newspaper.It was all about words.If words weren’t important, they wouldn’t try so...

Words alone mean nothing, because they can do nothing.

When I say, ‘I can’t stay long, I’m in-between meals,’ that plays differently on the radio than it does in person. So I have to pick material that works because the words are funny, not...

So I kept reading, just to stay alive. In fact, I’d read two or three books at the same time, so I wouldn’t finish one without being in the middle of another — anything to...

Except that love – that mysterious, vast, all-encompassing power – could not possibly be contained in a single word.

Writers are like tricksters. Their words lure us to embark on journeys and unlock our emotions.

Good words were the difference between Emily eating well and not. And what she had found worked best were not facts or arguments but words that tickled people’s brains for some reason, that just amused...

I wanted a library like this…[] A cave of words that I’d made myself.

I love these words that just can’t be translated from language to language. They seem dignified, grounded, battling against the imperialism of reality.

By giving words the latitude she does, (Marianne) Van Hirtum emphasizes their contagious qualities: they become almost like viruses, with which it is necessary to put oneself in harmony by sympathetic magic if one is...

My words are a whisper, your deafness a shout.

No one really knows what words mean these days.