One or a couple of good thoughts may be a fluke or derived from life’s challenges, a few can be a practice or a lesson from failures and bad experiences but the consistency of excellent...

Put your mouthful of words away and come with me to watch the lilies open in such a field, growing there like yachts, slowly steering their petals without nurses or clocks.

You’re like a dictionary. You know the word is in there, but you need to know how to spell what you want first

Many things are spoken out loud, but be careful of those words that you whisper to yourself. You have the ability to uplift yourself or condemn yourself. If your thoughts are depressingly running across your...

To write does not mean to convert the real into words but to make the power of the word real.

Is it possible to write a poem or are these words just screams of outlaws exiled to the desert?

You’ve gotten words about those American and Iraqi deaths and mutilations, but precious few images.

I don’t think, in all the years I managed them, I ever spoke more than thirty words to Frank and Brooks Robinson.

Do we not see the influence we have when we say we believe in one thing, but our children see us living something else? Do we not realize how little we encourage our children to...

Sky, wait.” The way his voice wraps around my name makes me wish the only word in his entire vocabulary way Sky.

Pretentiousness isn’t always just big words and meaningless jargon, but also pretty words that either when put into action don’t mean beans or hurt you in the long run. Oftentimes, the former appeals to the...

There are no words that can describe the euphoria you feel when your baby recognizes you for the first time and smiles.

Some words have to be explicitly uttered, Lenore. Only by actually uttering certain words does one really DO what one SAYS. ‘Love’ is one of those words, performative words. Some words can literally make things...

Writing is an abstract art of drawing pictures of the conscious and subconscious mind with words.

in the beginning was the Word,” John writes, and perhaps part of what that means is that until there is a word, there can be no beginning. Frederick Buechner, A Room Called Remember, in an...

What is the finding of love, but a voice answering a voice?

Word — That invisible dagger.

Some of the substance of English words, I just don’t understand at all because the culture’s so strange to me.

Words only make sense when the person who says them means a lot.

The bigger the words the weaker the voice.

I’d rather coin a few words than coin a few quarters, nickels, or dimes.

sideways” comes out straight.

Superfluous is just too super. I feel like the word needs something extra, like a cape.

Sticks and stones may break your bones but words will never hurt. Lies. Words hurt. The words we remember. Well, the hurt feeling the words caused stays with us forever.

But words mattered, more so in Newark than many other places. In a world where income and possessions were limited, words represented dignity, pride, self-worth.

I was really tired of words like ‘plus size,’ ’round’ and ‘large.’ I thought, ‘Come on, we’re fat.’

Good words cool more than cold water.

My words are like axe don’t dare to interferes with your finger.

Confusion is a web of words.

How can anyone underestimate the ballistic quality of words? Invisible things happen in intangible moments. What should keep us writing is precisely that possibility of explosions

These days, you have the option of staying home, blogging in your underwear, and not having your words mangled. I think I like the direction things are headed.

I like good strong words that mean something…

Words know how to suffocate lies to exhale the truth.

Perfection is an unattainable goal. It isn’t going to be perfect. Just get words down on paper, and when you stumble to what you think is the end of the book, you will have hundreds...

I don’t believe in signs. I believe in words, and action, and doing. And what you’re doing is sitting and waiting and that is one hundred percent unacceptable.

She liked the word ineffable because it meant a feeling so big or vast that it could not be expressed in words.And yet, because it could not be expressed in words, people had invented a...

I may be deprived of eloquence, but my mind can never be a dumb.

I was on the point of breaking off the conversation, for nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.

Be less generous with your advice: live it instead. It is a bad situation when someone with a coughing fit attempts to sell a cough mixture. After all, action speaks far louder than words; living...

I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race – that rarely do I even simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so...

Nationalism – in other words, the dividing of the church into bodies – consisting of such and such a nation, is a novelty, not above three centuries old, although many dear children of God are...

…art is weaker than life – in the end I have a bag of letters to scrabble into order – rune tiles to cast my fate…

Silence is a great companion when words are devoid of meanings.

Gregorius was never to forget this scene. They were his first Portuguese words in the real world and they worked. That words could cause something in the world, make someone move or stop, laugh or...

I bleed words.I dream in narrative. I live in infinite worlds.I befriend figmental characters.I wish on stars in other galaxies.I harvest stories from a brooding muse.I bloom under moonlight in hushed seclusion.I am a writer.

When I feel the beauty in words, I am sensing the logic of heart.

The play is not in the words, it’s in you!

Words are very powerful,” Miss Possibelf said, stepping lightly between the rows of desk. “And they take on more power the more they’re spoken…. “The more they’re said and read and written,in specific, consistent combinations.

Not telling is just as interesting as telling I have found. Why speech, that short verbal journey from inside to outside can be excrutiating under certain circumstances is fascinating.

Have constructive thoughts, consoling words, compassionate acts.