Choose your words carefully. They reveal your inner character.

They say actions speak louder than words, but in some cases, words hurt a lot more than actions ever could.

Our words are often only vague, inadequate descriptions of our thoughts. Something gets lost in translation every time we try to express our thoughts in words. And when the other person hears our words, something...

As both a fine artist and a graphic designer, I specialize in the visual presentation of words.

Words cannot only be made… But made to have a meaning, free the tongue and continue your speech.

The spoken word has come to dominate many Protestant forms of worship: the words of prayers, responsive readings, Scripture, the sermon, and so forth. Yet the spoken word is perhaps the least effective way of...

What’s the shelf life of a 1931 movie? If it still exists, there will always be film buffs and a niche audience who will want to see it. But in terms of people even understanding...

My father was a man of few words.

Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

I have no words to save you.

Because sometimes I live in a hurricane of wordsand not one of them can save me.

I first started to sing when I started to talk. As soon as I could form words and sounds together, I was singing.

Writers possess magic. It’s in their words. They compose phrases as powerful as incantations, creating illusions in the minds of readers. These spells make eyes envision things that aren’t real; they make hearts feel things...

Elodin pointed down the street. “What color is that boy’s shirt?””Blue.””What do you mean by blue? Describe it.”I struggled for a moment, failed. “So blue is a name?””It is a word. Words are pale shadows...

Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter.

Read to escape reality . . . Write to embrace it.

Worte können sein wie winzige Arsendosen: sie werden unbemerkt verschluckt, sie scheinen keine Wirkung zu tun, und nach einiger Zeit ist die Giftwirkung doch da.

Some of the most cutthroat auditions you’ll have as an actor are when you’ll have three words to say.

Tears are the noble language of eyes, and when true love of words is destitute. The eye by tears speak, while the tongue is mute.

Words are useless without action. Stop fantasizing and just DO it. Be a “game changer” or get played like an idiot.

Just let the words fly from your lips and your pen. Give them rhythm and depth and height and silliness. Give them filth and form and noble stupidity. Words are free and all words, light...

I don’t like the word ‘allegorical’, I don’t like the word ‘symbolic’ – the word I really like is ‘mythic’, and people always think that means ‘full of lies’, whereas of course what it really...

The only friends I have are the dead who have bequeathed their writings to me–I have no others.

It’s tough to put it into words. And that’s something that’s rare for me to say.

Words cannot do justice to the pleasures of a good bookshop. Ironically.(Waterstones Trafalgar Square)

words, you see,” he said, looking at me again, “allow us to make permanent what is essentially transient.Turn a world filled with injustice and hurt into a place that is beautiful and lyrical.

Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps are all a clear because to a clear why.

Words! What power they hold. Once they have rooted in your psyche, it is difficult to escape them. Words can shape the future of a child and destroy the existence of an adult.Words are powerful....

I appricated that Nell was talking to me like a grown-up, but I had no idea what she meant. Still, I could see that the words flowed together like water over a riverbed.

We all have a place within us, that would like to rewrite the way our life was written out for us….That’s why people want to become authors.

Some things should never be said. Not out loud in clear, simple words. You talk around them. You leave gaps and blanks. You use other words and talk in curves and arcs for the worst...

A tongue is about the size of a bullet, but much more fierce and powerful.

I’m good at melody – I’ll write the top-line melody and ideal words I want to go with it. But I’m not that good at writing lyrics. I bounce those back and forth with songwriters...

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

If you are not good at speeches, be good at your actions.

On the stage, the characters express themselves more through words than images. So the arguments of the characters and the tension between characters – words have to be used to express that, and I love...

Now and then there are readings that make the hairs on the neck, the non-existent pelt, stand on end and tremble, when every word burns and shines hard and clear and infinite and exact, like...

One time I happened to use the word ‘denigrate’ onstage, and it didn’t get any reaction. So as I continued my act, the left side of my brain was fast-forwarding to see if I had...

[W]e talk about the tyranny of words, but we like to tyrannise over them too; we are fond of having a large superfluous establishment of words to wait upon us on great occasions; we think...

The menu is not the meal.

If we were to understand how important it is to say something and say it well, maybe we wouldn’t write a single word, but that would be tragic.

Don’t forget, God uses words to create the world. Words! Words are only hope.

The words you can’t find, you borrow.

I wish I didn’t need words to speak to her. They sometimes hold very different meanings for us both.

I couldn’t live a week without a private library – indeed, I’d part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I’d let go of the 1500 or so books I...

Words are so very difficult to take back and forget. Memories fade with time, but words never do. They linger in our minds, our hearts, haunting us.

Words have power. The power to soothe. The power to skewer someone through the heart. The power to render someone speechless.

It sounds trite, but only because words make everything true sound trite. Because words always screw up what you’re trying to say.

Love isn’t in a hurry like a flurry of flowery words on paper. It’s lush and slow to grow its aroma in the garden of time.

Words can be medicines; they can also be poisons. Words can heal; they can also kill… It all depends on how, when and where they are use and against whom! Let us not abuse our...