War?’ The word held too much definition for three letters.

The true poem rests between the words.

Words don’t have the power to hurt you, unless that person meant more to you than you are willing to confess.

However, as words become particularized, and as men begin – in however small a way – to use them in personal, arbitrary ways, so their transformation into art begins.

To be read. To be heard. To be seen. I want to be read, I want to be heard. I don’t need to be seen. To write requires an ego, a belief that what you...

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.

The arrow belongs not to the archer when it has once left the bow; the word no longer belongs to the speaker when it has once passed his lips.

These are Tyler’s words coming out of my mouth. I am Tyler’s mouth. I am Tyler’s hands.

String several words together in a sentence and you have a language necklace. My I love you would look great with your favorite red dress.

Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.

The church trembled and the hail hammered the roof, but his words glided in the air, joyful and bright like the birds at the cliffs. They floated freely around one another without colliding and the...

It sometimes seems to me that a pestilence has struck the human race in its most distinctive faculty – that is, the use of words. It is a plague afflicting language, revealing itself as a...

I love bright words, words up and singing early;Words that are luminous in the dark, and sing;Warm lazy words, white cattle under trees;I love words opalescent, cool, and pearly,Like midsummer moths, and honied words like...

Music pulls words from the heart and inspires brilliance.

We …”Is Jack Coombs at a loss for words? I guess we don’t have to worry about the performance since the world is clearly going to end.

Once words have been said there is no way to un-say them

The only thing better than word of mouth is words of mouth. Give me at least two words.

Sometimes words are not needed, and the simplicity of expressing yourself through an art form is one of the best ways of communication.

I clung to each word that fell from his lips like a spider to a web.

most times the best things people deserve from us is our silence.Speak through silence and it will be more powerful than harsh words

Life is a recipe book our words always cook enough.

In order to understand what happened, we’ll use words in the way that they exist: as drawers of distinction between ideas.

The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my first homelands have been books, and to a lesser degree schools.

I can see it in the way he wrestles and I can hear it in the words he says. He knows what it’s like to be done and he’s got a second chance now.

She said the words, and then she had a strange moment of seeing them, hanging there over her head. “You’re going to vacuum up that squirrel!”There is just no predicting what kind of sentences you...

This was the time in her life that she fell upon books as the only door out of her cell. They became half her world.

I am always a different man; a reinterpretation of the man I was yesterday, and the day before, and all the days I have lived. The past is gone, was always gone; it does not...

When you have a nonverbal conversation with a total stranger, then he can’t cover himself with words, he can’t create a wall.

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...