Talking is great, but don’t ignore the value of listening. Pay attention to the words being spoken. Some people just love the sound of their own voice. And, when another person speaks, they are only...

Words are what you fight with but what you fight about is whether or not you’re afraid of them.

Each word, as someone once wrote, contains the universe.The visible carries all the invisible on its back. Tonight, in the unconditional, what moves in the long-limbed grasses, what touches me As though I didn’t exist?...

I like to use simple words, but in a complicated way.

The ultimate goal of therapy… it’s too hard a question. The words come to me like tranquility, like fulfillment, like realizing your potential.

I have to choose my words carefully because I don’t want to sound like one of those who goes on about how things were better in my day.

When your words enter the material world in the form of ink or on screen, you are immediately afforded the opportunity to judge their worth.

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?

Writing is a lifelong disease. Once contracted, the only prescription is to write constantly in whatever form to express your condition, in whatever construction to carry your words beyond you.

You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.

And you can glance out the window for a moment, distracted by the sound of small kids playing a made-up game in a neighbor’s yard, some kind of kickball maybe, and they speak in your...

When words lose the value… nothing is left!

Take each day in your open palms and close your fists around it. This life is not done with you yet.

Words are like seeds in the hands of a farmer which can only bear fruit when sowed

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.

There is no Frigate like a Book To take us Lands awayNor any Coursers like a Page Of prancing Poetry – This Traverse may the poorest takeWithout oppress of Toll – How frugal is the...

There will be more words written on Twitter in the next two years than contained in all books ever printed.

Yes, but I view Frank’s music as fully composed. In other words, the arrangements can work for any idiom such as a rock band or an orchestra. Frank was a brilliant arranger and could make...

Who needs a large vocabulary when you can just make up any word at any time? It makes life a whole lot more emeaglibop.

Coffee excites my mind in ways not describable my words. The closest approximation is a sperm whale in orgasm, only silent and bubblier.

In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.

In other words, all the highest aims of language are decisively the work of God. They are decisively supernatural. And no amount of poetic effort or expertise in the use of words can bring about...

Thank you to the children whose innocent words encouraged me.

The sounds and rhythms of words are really important to me.

The way he said her name made my heart cramp. In all my years of word collecting, I’ve learned this to be a tried and true fact: I can very often tell how much a...

How old must you be before words can no longer fool you?

There’s no such thing as complete when it comes to stories. Stories are infinite. They are as infinite as worlds.

Now between the meanings of words and their sounds there is ordinarily no discoverable relation except one of accident; and it is therefore miraculous, to the mystic, when words which make sense can also make...

The object of poetic activity is essentially language: whatever his beliefs & convictions, the poet is more concerned with words than what these words designate.

I’ve developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more books, by far, than I learned anything useful from, except, of course, that some...

Are you watching the boats?” Cornelia guessed. She craned her neck to see if there was any excitement on the river.Heavens no, I’m spying on people,” Virginia responded unrepentantly.-Cornelia E and Virginia Somerset

Many, whose hearts are conquered by acute spite, roll out balanced tales from their own heart, which do not balance when you weigh words against deeds.

Because Shakespeare’s language is so expansive, we’re under this misconception that it’s difficult. But I discovered that it’s easy because it’s so brilliantly written. The words are perfect, and the language is intelligent and very...

I love you beyond paint, beyond melodies, beyond words. And I hope you will always feel that, even when I’m not around to tell you so.

Pithy.

My experience of chaotic lessons has humbled me enough to know, I could have it worse than I do I now and positive enough to know I can be where I want to be, someday.

Keep thy smooth words and juggling homilies for those who know thee not.

…you can use words if you wish, but I’m warning you – I’ve learned how to read your heart …

Silence made space for other people’s words, which was important for those who needed to be listened to.

Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.

There’s the real world, with all its annoying facts and rules. In the real world, there are things that are true and things that aren’t. Mostly the real world s-s-s-suh-sucks. But everyone also lives in...

The past, the present, and the future walked into a bar. It was tense.

That speaking the words, even if true, had little power to change the inevitable or even make him feel much better.

The two of us snuggled like quotation marks in his room full of words.

I wrote so meagerly to you. But what I couldn’t write swelled and swelled like an old-fashioned airship and drifted away at last through the night sky.

I write the paragraph, then I’m crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then I type it up because sometimes it’s almost illegible, and if I wait,...

Words cut deeper than knives. A knife can be pulled out, words are embedded into our souls.

Words are power. The more words you know and can recognize, use, define, understand, the more power you will have as a human being… The more language you know, the more likely it is that...

… Our language, tiger, our language: hundreds of thousands of available words, frillions of legitimate new ideas… And yet, oh, and yet, we, all of us, spend all our days saying to each other the...

The intricacies, the problems, the trials and tribulations in relationships inspire me to give words to people’s journeys.