Actions speak louder than words is still the great truth about life.

FV: Annandale defines ‘definition’ as “an explanation of the signification of a term.” Yet Oxford, on the other hand, defines it as “a statement of the precise meaning of a word.” A small, perhaps negligible...

She was only saying what I already knew in my heart, but hearing the words spoken made it seem all the more true, all the more terrifying.Words gave concepts power. Once they were released, there...

In the sky, far above – Where my words – Written in the Clouds; I’ve borrowed from the sun, A gentle smile.

Should you care to write (and only the saints know why you should) you must needs have knowledge and art and magic – the knowledge of the music of words, the art of being artless,...

On no days of our childhood did we live so fully perhaps as those we thought we had left behind without living them, those that we spent with a favourite book.

Concert dance is the hardest kind of dance. We tour constantly, around the world, year in and year out. It just doesn’t work for everybody. It’s the lifestyle, it’s the stamina, it’s the love, it’s...

Every word that i utter had already been said in the spirit realm.

The limits of my language are the limits of my universe.

People are always saying these things about how there’s no need to read literature anymore-that it won’t help the world. Everyone should apparently learn to speak Mandarin, and learn how to write code for computers....

When I met [Leyland], the first words he said were, ‘I’m going to do a good job for you,’? … I’ve never been introduced to anybody and immediately it just came natural out of his...

I like the idea that every page in every book can have a gem on it. It’s probably what I love most about writing – that words can be used in a way that’s like...

…when you’re hard and unyielding your words score me with lines – I hate lines – I want curves – curves are happy like a snowman …

Don’t let yourself be amazed by the imagination of a writer and his words, writers are almost all the time in a love-hate relationship with words.

Sometimes I go to the beach and stand facing the wind, which I wish were icy, colder than we know it in these parts. I wish it would blow all the hackneyed words, all the...

Few realize how loud their expressions really are. Be kind with what you wordlessly say.

Now I have more freedom than I have ever had at any time in my life, and I do only the things I always have. They were empty before, but Selina has given a meaning...

Dimitri no dijo nada cuando fue su turno, pero como siempre, sus ojos hablaban por él.

Because all her feelings for him – hot and beautiful in her heart – turned to gobbledygook in her mouth.

I don’t want the words to be naked the way they are in faxes or in the computer. I want them to be covered by an envelope that you have to rip open in order...

Words have no power, unless you give it to them.

You are a failure not the time when you are defeated.. but when you give up fighting.

Let your feelings flow and the scribbled words stay as a sovereign of the moment.

A good book, he had concluded, leaves you wanting to reread the book. A great book compels you to reread your own soul. Such books were for him rare and, as he aged, rarer. Still...

I burned out my drawing hand by using it too much. The common word for it is writer’s cramp. The fancy words for it are focal dystonia. The symptom in my case was a pinky...

The thing he said aloud did not succeed.

Not words. nor laughter. but rather someonewho will fall in lovewith your silence.

Words, too, have genuine substance — mass and weight and specific gravity.

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!

Here’s what I mean by the miracle of language. When you’re falling into a good book, exactly as you might fall into a dream, a little conduit opens, a passageway between a reader’s heart and...

Words do murder.

The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.

Our love must not be a thing of words and fine talk. It must be a thing of action and sincerity.

My words are not the inspiration, I am the inspiration.

It is often too easy to explain a novel idea to a few enlightened persons with a few words. But to enlighten about the same to many people, too many words are often required

…words have been all my life, all my life–this need is like the Spider’s need who carries before her a huge Burden of Silk which she must spin out–the silk is her life, her home,...

Objections to Christianity… are phrased in words, but that does not mean that they are really a matter of language and analysis and argument. Words are tokens of the will. If something stronger than language...

Affliction caused by the tongue is worse than that caused by the strike of the blade of a sword.

Why do you have to be so damn cryptic?

A word only writes Its night and ridesIts dream.

After all, when you come across the word prothalamium and find it means a preliminary nuptial song and a yaffle is a green woodpecker-well, I ask you! You cannot let matters rest there-or can you?...

Every word the right one and exactly where it should be. That’s basically the highest compliment I can give.

Figures are the most shocking things in the world. The prettiest little squiggles of black looked at in the right light and yet consider the blow they can give you upon the heart.

I don’t know if I have a technique. I’m just trying to remember the words.

When you use words, you’re able to keep your mind alive. Writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.