Most likely, they were writing the same type of macho bullshit that I wrote, trying to sound tough with their words in case words were all that made it home.

English words are like prisms. Empty, nothing inside, and still they make rainbows.

So las ich falsch in deinem Aug, dem tiefen?Kein heimlich Sehnen sah ich heiß dort funkeln?Es birgt zu deiner Seele keine PforteDein feuchter Blick? Die Wünsche, die dort schliefen,Wie stille Rosen in der Flut, der...

Words make the intangible aspects of human experience communicable, and a single sentence can shatter our world view and assist us in the formulation of a new one.

Another one of your quippy japes?

Her words were like tinfoil; they shone and they covered things up.

In books, you can just wallow in dialogue, and you can just wallow in written words. In screenplays, every line has to serve the purpose of the line that’s implied before it and the line...

Words have power, my son. Words can cut to the heart and soothe the deepest hurts. They can be puzzles that leave another pondering for days. I prefer to cast my spells of words in...

…choosing words is harder than I thought.

I want to be able to do anything with words: handle slashing, flaming descriptions like Wells, and use the paradox with the clarity of Samuel Butler, the breadth of Bernard Shaw and the wit of...

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

Sometimes words come out of me and I don’t know where they come from or why. They’re like falling stars tumbling through the universe; bright, burning things that can’t be stopped.

I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.

Like flies in amber, like corpses frozen in ice, that which according to the laws of nature should pass away is, by the miracle of ink on paper, preserved. It is a kind of magic....

The background … makes it even more troubling that the 16 words eventually made it into the State of the Union speech, … This was a mistake.

After I speak, my words merge with the wind, and if you’re listening, your ears act like sails and carry the conversation.

When words fail music speaks.

But there are certain meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words.

words acted upon win the admiration and confidence of the masses than words

[M]ay not literature (and, in particular, fiction) be considered a desperate and permanently thwarted effort to produce a unique form of expression? Something like a cry, perhaps, a cry that, somehow, inexplicably contains all the...

In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn’t change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie.

If I could find the right words, I’d say what the blue sky says.

Loneliness of heartIn the still of the night my heart doth cry out, who can hear it for time is far spent. In the darkness in the shadow of the depth I find isolation and...

Language has not the power to speak what love inditesThe soul lies buried in the Ink that writes

We knew the difference between that which cannot be expressed and that which must. We understood that while words are a path taking us only so far, they are a requisite to the journey. They...

I do think that in order for a company to be interesting to the investment community, there needs to be a plan; there needs to be a bigger retail footprint. There needs to be this...

Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness.

As long as reading is for us the instigator whose magic keys have opened the door to those dwelling-places deep within us that we would not have known how to enter, its role in our...

My dad, like many Southern men, is this very emotionally expressive person who isn’t as articulate in words about his feelings as he is with breaking a chair or something like that.

An imperfect creative expression is much more sensible and creative than a grammatically perfect expression without an iota of sense and value in it.

If a gesture is the most powerful command that you have, then words mean very little.

Music is only love looking for words.

Your words have the power of life and death. Choose them wisely.

There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world.

…all this time I’ve been worshiping you – when other men wanted to kiss you, I’ve been offering the praise of my lips…

Is it crazy to say that I sometimes don’t understand what I write but I write it anyway, because maybe someone, somewhere, somehow, would feel what I didn’t?

Music had stirred him like that. Music had troubled him many times. But music was not articulate. It was not a new world, but rather an other chaos, that it created in us. Words! Mere...

Your efforts extend like ripples on the ocean, much further than you know.

Words won’t have meaning until you put your emotions into them.

The words we choose can build communities, reunite loved ones, and inspire others. They can be a catalyst for change. However, our words also have the power to destroy and divide: they can start a...

A librarian had found the baby sitting abandoned on the sheer edge of the world; the librarians kept her. That proved shrewd. Nepenthe had drooled on words, talked at them, and tried to eat them...

When typography is on point, words become images.

Did your mom ever tell you, ‘If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything’? She was right–and talking nicely also applies when you’re talking to yourself, even inside your head. (339)

We want words to do more than they can. We try to do with them what comes to very much like trying to mend a watch with a pickaxe or to paint a miniature with...

Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.

If Baltimore’s view, that scientists who do not take the words of authorities are far removed from the ordinary behavior of scientists, prevails in the scientific community, then something fundamental, very serious, and very disturbing...

Words do have purpose; they are essential clues in determining actions, or lack thereof.

Words are the tools we use to express our reality.

all my lifei have looked for poemsto elope with.

People tend to take things spoken as a joke seriously and things spoken seriously as a joke.