You couldn’t leave words lying around where our enemies might find them.

…being with you was so easy and natural – there was no strain – I never had to guard my words…

If you observe the pace of my breaths, you won’t need to listen to my words.

There is a weird power in a spoken word.

Las palabras nunca desaparecen, sino que hacen eco para la eternidad. Deja que tu eco suene dulce.

Does it matter that people and thingsHave words,Have names?If not,Why read any book?A litany of useless lettersDetached from bone, muscle.Or are words the only things that make the muscle, bone, memory, movement,PersonReal?

Words are nets through which all truth escapes(“News From The World”)

What are the thorns really telling her? It’s why she won’t let us see them, why she clings to them–or they cling to her–as though she got herself buried in a bramble thicket and she...

Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.

A picture can tell a thousand words,but a few words can change it’s story.

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

Let’s have some new cliches.

Initial reports are encouraging. In the end of the day, it’s going to be deeds, not words, that matter.

Words have weight.

Speak it into existence and your words, through your desires, will bring it into fruition.

what ismore beautifultears, in someone’s eyesfor meor in my eyesfor them.

With words at your disposal, you can see more clearly. Finding the words is another step in learning to see.

The point I am trying to make is that words are a mysterious, ambiguous, ambivalent, and perfidious phenomenon. They can be rays of light in a realm of darkness. . . . They can equally...

Sometimes words do fly in the sky but when words do fly in the sky, there are no keyboards to type.

…speak to me as to thy thinkingAs thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughtsThe worst of words…

Keep my word’ is such a strange expression. At first glance, it just means ‘Be true to what you agreed on. But it could also mean, ‘Hold your words back.’ Keep them in. Let your...

what people said was what they wanted him to hear. He paid a lot of attention to the spaces outside the words, though. That’s where the things were that they hoped he didn’t know and...

I dread the beginning of her new life more than words can tell, but I see some hope for her if she travels – none if she remains at home.

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.

These are fountains of salvation that they who thirst may be satisfied with the living words they contain. In these alone is proclaimed the doctrine of godliness. Let no man add to these, neither let...

Through books I discovered everything to be loved, explored, visited, communed with. I was enriched and given all the blueprints to a marvelous life, I was consoled in adversity, I was prepared for both joys...

A word is used “correctly” when the average hearer will be affected by it in the way intended. This is a psychological, not a literary, definition of “correctness”. The literary definition would substitute, for the...

Words are not brains, you know.

Unfortunately, just like bullets, you can never get words back once they have been sent out into the world.

Would you prefer swive? Tup? Dance the buttock jig?

I have tasted words, I have seen them. Never had her hands reached out in darkness and felt the texture of pure marble, never had her forehead bent forward and, as against a stone altar,...

Mr Earbrass stands on the terrace at twilight. It is bleak; it is cold; and the virtue has gone out of everything. Words drift through his mind: anguish turnips conjunctions illness defeat string parties no...

Not only are words important on a tape but sounds are important, … Quite often spectral analysis of noises or other sorts of clunks and clinks can be identified by members of the cockpit voice...

…although her mouth uttered fond words, her eyes spoke only venom.

But could words bethe end of me?

Jess couldn’t stop spitting out words, because they were words like blades to hurt, and if she swallowed them, she’d be scraped hollow.

The term “political correctness” has always appalled me, reminding me of Orwell’s “Thought Police” and fascist regimes.

Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts.

Your flesh is not a reflection of your soul. So when you look in the mirror, remember that your light outshines your flaws.

… since the history of words is a mainspring of our intellectual and emotional character.

I know that sentence is long and has too many joining words in it but sometimes, when I’m angry, words burst out of me like a shout, or, if I’m sad, they spill out of...

I’m not 21 and trying to prove something with my words.

Art, its completeness, its formedness, its finishedness, had no power to console. Words, on the other hand, were a lifeline.

Wake up to think of words… want to walk through pages of meanings, the links in assonance, alliteration, or just simple sense that moves the eye to leap that way to the next-door play of...