Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one’s never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

We speak the ebonics of Spanish. The first things we learned were the numbers and cuss words.

The Best Thoughts are often those which are spoken without giving any thoughts.

I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.

Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had...

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.

Step out from behind the words. When you’re a writer you can imagine that the words speak for you and are you, but they’re not. You are this living breathing bad hair day kind of...

My feelings are too loud for words and too shy for the world.

No matter how hard we try words simply cannot express the horror, the shock, and the revulsion we all feel over what took place in this nation on Tuesday morning. September 11 will go down...

Bolt actions speak louder than words.

Children are gifts. They are not ours for the breaking. They are ours for the making.

Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists.

What are words if you really don’t mean them when you say them?

All things human begin with words.

More than at any other time, when I hold a beloved book in my hand my limitations fall from me, my spirit is free.

Seek always for the answer within. Be not influenced by those around you, by their thoughts or their words

I’d developed an inability to demonstrate much negative emotion at all. It was another thing that made me seem like a dick – my stomach could be all oiled eels, and you would get nothing...

The three most dreaded words in the English language are ‘negative cash flow’.

We no longer have a sufficiently high estimate of ourselves when we communicate. Our true experiences are not garrulous. They could not communicate themselves if they wanted to: they lack words. We have already grown...

How can love’s spaciousnessbe conveyed in the narrowconfines of one syllable?

Words are winds.

It’s the hardest fucking thing. It’s why we drink and do drugs and fight. It’s why I play music and build engines.

Sword and words—same letters, and same ability to cut down.

You mean less to me than the dog s__t I scraped off the bottom of my shoe!

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.