Where do the words gowhen we have said them?

She couldn’t tell exactly where the words came from. What mattered was that they reached her. They arrived and kneeled next to her bed.

…I gave you painted air – tears I couldn’t weep – truths I couldn’t speak – all the words that caught in my throat…

Chocolate says “I’m sorry” so much better than words.

The stitch of a book is its words.

But my question is, am I compromising by adapting my words for the audience and where is the line beyond which I am not adapting words, but changing my position?

For she was the only one, of all of them, to have spared me a pleasant word; and suddenly I longed for time to pass, not for its own sake, but as it would take...

‘Give up… it’s time to quit,’ I don’t think I’ve ever really accepted those kinds of words in my life or vocabulary.

My father always said that too many words cheapened the value of a man’s speech.

When something happens to you that is beyond words, life is happening to you. When the Ultimate is happening to you, you are beyond words.

Words are the clothes thoughts wear.

Men of the world who value the Way all turn to books. But books are nothing more than words. Words have value; what is of value in words is meaning. Meaning has something it is...

It is doubtful whether a supreme master of style could pack all the elements of truth that complete justice would demand into a hundred word account of what had happened in Korea during the course...

Nothing is ever over when it is alive inside a human heart. You’ll always be an echo in my words.

The biggest public health challenge is rebuilding health systems. In other words, if you look at cholera or maternal mortality or tuberculosis in Haiti, they’re major problems in Haiti, but the biggest problem is rebuilding...

Sensuality came into existence the moment when the first beat of melody knocked on the door of the world of belly dance.

Poems are invisible flowers on my skin.

There are two words for everything.

But you will never realize that an incident which filled but a degree in the circle of your thoughts covered the whole circumference of mine. No person can see exactly what and where another’s horizon...

Sometimes, when people speak, I cease listening to their words and zoom in instead on the cadence, and it can seem lovely, and at other times absurd, all this verbiage, these seemingly random consonants clattering...

Distance and time might keep people apart, but the heart and mind will always stay connected by memories, miracles and the power of two unlikely souls that were destined to meet.

Men use thought only to justify their wrong-doings, and words only to conceal their thoughts.

Say something worth the words.

Few pleasures, for the true reader, rival the pleasure of browsing unhurriedly among books: old books, new books, library books, other people’s books, one’s own books – it does not matter whose or where. Simply...

I didn’t know how to say goodbye. Words were stupid. They said so little. Yet they opened up holes you could fall into and never climb out of again.

Like an arrow to its mark flies the word good man’s word.

Words of affirmation are powerful. Words change lives; words and ideas change the world.

There is no privilege in restriction. In other words, I disagree with people who say restriction makes you more creative. I think that’s a misleading slogan. I might have been more creative without them than...

I think when you’re acting, you usually don’t have to know too much beyond how to pronounce the words you’re saying.

Only write to me, write to me, I love to see the hop and skip and sudden starts of your ink.

When you have nothing to say, say nothing.

Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and the virtuous.

A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.

Wagamama. Text messaging aficionados might like to note that this is one of the most satisfying words you can possibly type.

I am going to have to stick to the script. If I muck around with the words it will defeat the object.

Laptab: A touchscreen notebook, laptop, computer.

Books have their idiosyncrasies as well as people, and will not show me their full beauties unless the place and time in which they are read suits them.

What begins at the water shall end there, and what ends there shall once more begin. Words are a gift to the dead and a warning to the living.

I don’t know what a credit bubble means. I don’t even know what a bubble means. These words have become popular. I don’t think they have any meaning.

The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things of the mind and spirit. The order of ideas must follow...

Thoughts do more. Words to much. Actions do much more.

The book was in her lap; she had read no further. The power to change one’s life comes from a paragraph, a lone remark. The lines that penetrate us are slender, like the flukes that...

Don’t deceive yourself; laughing at someone’s weakness is not the way to reveal your strength. Your strength is in the help you offer, not the mockeries you deliver!

There is nothing like the moment you connect with a reader! Nothing like the response that you get when what you have written touches someone in some way. It’s a moment in which your work...

I have no words — alas! — to tellThe loveliness of loving well!

I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back...

Words are one of the most powerful things given to human beings. In the hands of artists who can use them properly they are like weapons of mass construction.

Ce n’est pas la première fois que je remarque combien, en France particulièrement, les mots ont plus d’empire que les idées.”(“It’s not the first time I’ve noticed how much more power words have than ideas,...

I believe that today more than ever a book should be sought after even if it has only one great page in it. We must search for fragments, splinters, toenails, anything that has ore in...

A word is a bud attempting to become a twig. How can one not dream while writing? It is the pen which dreams. The blank page gives the right to dream.