Eye contact is way more intimate than words will ever be.

Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

But suppose it was truth double strong, it were no truth to me if I couldna take it in. I daresay there’s truth in yon Latin book on your shelves; but it’s gibberish and no...

Your words, your thoughts, your imagination: powerful tools. Remember that and use them wisely.

TV – a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. However, it is our latest medium – we call it a medium because nothing’s well done.

Have your dream…What you need now more than anything is discipline. Cast off mere words. Words turn into stone. (from Thailand)

Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words.

Women’s Tongues are as sharp as two-edged Swords, and wound as much, when they are anger’d.

That was the thing about words, they were clear and specific–chair, eye, stone–but when you talked about feelings, words were too stiff, they were this and not that, they couldn’t include all the meanings. In...

One of my little girls is named Reagan. Her first words were, ‘Mr. Larry, tear down this crib.’ That was her first words, it was very sweet. My first words were, ‘Are you going to...

The right words to express oneself can never be found in any dictionary.

Yes, I read. I have that absurd habit. I like beautiful poems, moving poetry, and all the beyond of that poetry. I am extraordinarily sensitive to those poor, marvelous words left in our dark night...

It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on...

. . .our whispered words, faintly in the darkness, dissolvingwithin the trees—then, fleeting words of consolationwould not suffice if feigned, and flippant wordsconfessed reluctance—our wordswere meaningless uttered on the wind. . .

Look, words are like the air: they belong to everybody. Words are not the problem; it’s the tone, the context, where those words are aimed, and in whose company they are uttered. Of course murderers...

Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.

Who knew paper and ink could be so vicious

Words are things. You must be careful, careful about calling people out of their names, using racial pejoratives and sexual pejoratives and all that ignorance. Don’t do that. Some day we’ll be able to measure...

Performance art is about joy, about making something that’s so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can’t put into words.

always tell the truth and you’ll never have to remember your words.

The urge to convert experience into a group of words that are in a grammatical relation to one another is the most basic, ongoing impulse of my life.

I told her about school and how I sat on a wall there and felt stories and words move through me …

We must be loyal to the truth, not to our words! Change your words if they are not compatible with the truth; go back on your words, throw them to the bin!

Family. It was just a word…Could see its letters all strung together. But it was a symbol, too. And people thought they knew what it meant…It was a thing everyone had an opinion about—that it...

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.

I was so anxious. Words cannot even express it.

The wise man reveals more than words spoken.

Some people have the coldest smiles, but have the tenderest hearts. And many have the most tender smiles, but carry the coldest hearts. You cannot judge a man by his smile, but you can judge...

Do not use poisonous words against anyone, for words wound more fatally than even arrows.

Some guy hit my fender, and I told him, ‘Be fruitful and multiply,’ but not in those words.

People keep asking me …How to instantly become a better writer? It’s simple: Use “power words” and see for yourself.

You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a life.

You only benefit from books if you can give something back to them. What I mean is, if you approach them in the spirit of a duel, so you can both wound and be wounded,...

In learning a language, when from mere words we reach the laws of words, we have gained a great deal. But if we stop at that point and concern ourselves only with the marvels of...

Too many people say something when they really have nothing to say.

We focus upon pairs of words very often which are the same in some areas and different in other areas.

The only advice, indeed, that one person can give another about reading is to take no advice, to follow your own instincts, to use your own reason, to come to your own conclusions. If this...

A word out of place or an interesting choice of vocabulary can spawn a whole character.

It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

God’s warriors don’t avoid conflict. They fight through it with communication and a positive outlook.

I foresaw the financial crisis. I get messages in my sleep, in pictures and words. I understood that I have a mission and a role in ensuring human existence. I received a message that people...

Right now, just speak gently your words of wisdom to the youngsters.Sooner or later, those words will arrive at the right place in their hearts.

I love introverts. They don’t waste words. Excessive extroverts can be very wasteful. I don’t trust them in any kind of intricate or delicate matter.

She says: …love is really all that matters. He hears: …really love to do it on the mattress.

There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book.

I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.

If we ask a vague question, such as, ‘What is poetry?’ we expect a vague answer, such as, ‘Poetry is the music of words,’ or ‘Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.’

Some books must be sipped slowly like a strong bourbon. Most books must be devoured more than once because as you age you distill more.

Words are confessions of your actions. Choose them wisely.