Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use.The mere presence in the dictionary of a word like ‘living’ does not mean it necessarily...

In prayer, God doesn’t want your words, he wants your heart. He doesn’t track your eloquence, he treasures your soul.

Then you must tell them that love isn’t something like a grindstone that’s the same thing everywhere and do the same thing to everything it touches. Love is like the sea. It is a moving...

Words are alive; cut them and they bleed.

how these words, wait to diein the arms of all the poetry..yet to be written.

Whatever you get out of poetry – take it. take it. take it. Words are better off felt than understood.

When you feel like throwing rocks, make sure they’re ones no one can throw back.

Edinburgh is alive with words.

Sonnet 23As an unperfect actor on the stage, Who with his fear is put besides his part,Or some fierce thing replete with too much rage,Whose strength’s abundance weakens his own heart; So I, for fear...

Just remember, when someone has an accent, it means that he knows one more language than you do.

Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know,Are a substantial world, both pure and good:Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood,Our pastime and our happiness will grow.

The more words you know, the more clearly and powerfully you will think…and the more ideas you will invite into your mind.

I write to taste life twice; to savour the flavour of sweet times gone by, or spit out the bitterness before it multiplies.

Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

It is too sad . I must speak to him- The do you really ?- Sure . How can you expect things to get better , if we do not speak?- Earlier , you talked...

Sweet words are like honey, a little may refresh, but too much gluts the stomach.

Time can play all sorts of tricks on you. In the blink of an eye, babies appear in carriages, coffins disappear into the ground, wars are won and lost, and children transform, like butterflies, into...

Simplicity is not leading a very simple life with bountiful wealth and luxury that one can lay hands on, but building no desire to have surplus resources in spite of living in abject penury situations.

The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn’t know how to read.

In many previously classified documents relating to activities at the base, the words ‘Area 51’ are conveniently blacked out. There’s always a euphemism for it – like ‘the test facility’ or ‘the base’ – but...

Look out how you use proud words.When you let proud words go, it is not easy to call them back.They wear long boots, hard boots; they walk off proud; they can’t hear you calling -Look...

Forcing the muse to let thoughts flow; equals to pushing a child, into labor.

Jacinta never told Penelope that she loved her. The nurse knew that those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words.

The words that come direct from the people are the greatest… If you substitute one out of your own vocabulary, it disappears before your eyes.

What makes me furious, not just because we’re in an interview, but I don’t like when writers take your words and put them somewhere else, in the wrong context in their own article about you.

Loving my son, building my son, touching my son, playing with my son, being with my son… these aren’t tasks that only super dads can perform. These are tasks that every dad should perform. Always....

I’ve met people I didn’t like. I’ve met people who’ve used words in ways I didn’t like. I’ve never met a word I didn’t like.

I am a poet in deeds–not often in words.

Words are harsh mistresses, to be sure. Like petulant divas, they want only those parts that play to their talents and mask their blemishes, and only when complete companies of players who love their parts...

Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know more.

Trevor realized that the odd thing about English is that no matter how much you screw sequences word up up, you understood, still, like Yoda, will be. Other languages don’t work that way. French? Dieu!...

Writing is the dancing of words, sometimes it is beautiful and meaningful, sometimes it is not.

I will tell these stories…because to do anything else would be something less than human. I speak to these people, and I speak to you because I cannot help it. It gives me strength, almost...

Words are things. The words he is in possession of he cannot be deprived of. Their authority transcends his ignorance of their meaning.

Memories fade but words hang around forever.

A man with a scant vocabulary will almost certainly be a weak thinker. The richer and more copious one’s vocabulary and the greater one’s awareness of fine distinctions and subtle nuances of meaning, the more...

Everything good I have written about can be summed up in two words: Ryan Lilly.” That’s a real quote I read in a real book. Trust me, I’m a writer.

And an even worse example, I think, than the cheapening of the word CHARITY is the new newspaper cheapening of the word COURAGE.Any man living in complete luxury and security who chooses to write a...

I want my words to illuminate like the sun, as I give my daily lecture on photosynthesis to my houseplants.

Words are your friends. And lovers. They feel good in your mouth.

Words are fossilized butterfly wings,pretty to look at sometimes,but only good for Museums.I want to miserably burn down the Museums.

Animated films are so precisely engineered – right down to forming lines of dialogue with words pulled from several different takes – how do you translate that spontaneity from the live-action to the digital realm?

If you make a movie about Elizabeth I, how much of the dialogue is her real words? Audiences know when they go see a movie that it is fiction.

All I’m writing is just what I feel, that’s all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland.

who did I think we were.who did I thinkI could make you.this is the oldest mistake,to confuse wantingwith magic. silence is the undoingof every spell, and we are expertsin the unsaid. even now, I forgetto...

Words have to make sense; facts don’t. That life makes no sense is the most beautiful fact of all.

Las ideas son incluso más peligrosas que las armas, sólo que su efecto no es tan inmediato.

We never choose which words to use, for as long as they mean what they mean to mean, we don’t care if they make sense or nonsense.

For a woman’s words to wound would require a man to listen first!

A writer leads a hyphenated-life with words