She was fascinated with words. To her, words were things of beauty, each like a magical powder or potion that could be combined with other words to create powerful spells.

…Newspapers, popular fiction, and magazines churned out words by the million, and the worn coins of everyday speech were less and less able to communicate anything more than the most commonplace meanings….

Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, ‘It might have been.

I love the words, because they love me too.

What one does is always worth more than words.

Another important consequence in the arrival of digital technology and its facilitation of feedback is that we can look at large systems and recognize them once more not only as part of ourselves, but also...

Words are like spices. Too many is worse than too few.

But even now, with the crates piled high in the hall, what I see most plainly about the books is that they are beautiful. They take up room? Of course they do: they are an...

Every one has experienced how learning an appropriate name for what was dim and vague cleared up and crystallized the whole matter. Some meaning seems distinct almost within reach, but is elusive; it refuses to...

You do not need words to tell the truth.

In other words, I have no truck for anyone who goes out and does an eclectic building.

Why write? Life is a cage of empty words.

Equally, the surrealists consider words as witnesses of life acting in a direct way in human affairs. To use words properly it was necessary to treat them with respect, for they were the intermediaries between...

M is for magic. All the letters are, if you put them together properly. You can make magic with them, and dreams, and, I hope, even a few surprises…

I knew people were talking, but I wasn’t listening. I wasn’t interested in anything anyone had to say.

The pages and the words are my world, spread out before your eyes and for your hand to touch. Vaguely, I can see you face looking down into me, as I look back. Do you...

I believe in the magic and in the authority of words

When I have an idea, it goes from vague, cloudy notion to 100,000 words in a heartbeat.

Please heed the words of our Holy Father: There is no place in the priestly ministry for those who harm children,

You can only fit so many words in a postcard, only so many in a phone call, only so many into space before you forget that words are sometimes used for things other than filling...

Chameleonesque, hobbitish, unicorned, stompled, selfishism, and unwakeable may not be real words, but you do know what they mean.

You will feel more responsible for your own words when you notice how your words can affect lives of other people. You will feel touched when you really see how your words have made their...

Basically, when I hear the words ‘family drama,’ I run in the opposite direction.

Here is the time for the sayable, here is its home.Speak and attest. More than everthe things we can live with are falling away,and ousting them, filling their place, a will with no image.Will beneath...

The copied words they discovered amounted to about 10 pages out of a total work of some 15,000 pages in print, … The investigative reporters found them by using my footnotes.

U izvoru tvojih očijumore drži svoju riječ.Ja ondje bacamsrce koje je boravilo kod ljudi.

Always remember: No matter how carefully you choose your words, they’ll always end up being twisted by others.

Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear; the profit of books is...

Why do people who can talk right waste so many words saying nothing?

I once ran across a list of nearly 400 winds from around the world and wondered why Wyoming, so dominated by wind, has so few names for its variations. . . . There’s the wind,...

What Jerry has done, in a masterful way, is go through and select portions of the Scripture and put words in Jesus’ mouth that are legitimate because they already appear in the Bible.

It doesn’t matter if you and everyone else in the room are thinking it. You don’t say the words. Words are weapons. They blast big bloody holes in the world. And words are bricks. Say...

There was so much to say that we said nothing.

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...

Words work like keys. When you use them appropriately, you can unlock any locked heart

Don’t listen to their words, fix your attention on their deeds.

His voice, what he said, remains, and it is here, all of those voices are here, in what I am telling you. If in the beginning there was the word, then perhaps, with humility at...

There is a line of poetry, a sentence in a fable, a word in an essay, by which my existence is justified; find that line, and immortality is assured.

LOVE ~ TRUTH ~ FREEDOMare three words that mean the smae, and none may exist without the other present.

Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul. When writers make us shake our heads with the exactness of their prose...

The next time you wish you could find the right words to say to someone who is hurting, just remember that dogs are a man’s best friend without ever speaking a word to them. Simply...

KELİMELERKelimelere dikkat et,Özellikle mucizevi olanlara.Mucizevi olanlar için en iyisini yaparız, Bazen böcek sürüsü gibi toplanırlarSokmazlar ama bir öpücük bırakırlar.Parmaklar kadar iyi olabilirler.Oturduğun kaya kadar güvenilir…Aynı zamanda hem papatyalar hem de yaralar gibi…Sözcüklere aşığım, evet.Tavandan sarkan...

There is never finality in the display terminal’s screen, but an irresponsible whimsicality, as words, sentences, and paragraphs are negated at the touch of a key. The significance of the past, as expressed in the...

People need to understand that not everyone is out to hurt you. There are still some great people in this world. Do not allow yourself to believe that everyone is up to no good. Just...

Forms disappear, words remain, to signify the impossible.

I can hear the library humming in the night, a choir of authors murmuring inside their books along the unlit, alphabetical shelves, Giovanni Pontano next to Pope, Dumas next to his son, each one stitched...