Each word, as someone once wrote, contains the universe.The visible carries all the invisible on its back. Tonight, in the unconditional, what moves in the long-limbed grasses, what touches me As though I didn’t exist?...

I like to use simple words, but in a complicated way.

The ultimate goal of therapy… it’s too hard a question. The words come to me like tranquility, like fulfillment, like realizing your potential.

I have to choose my words carefully because I don’t want to sound like one of those who goes on about how things were better in my day.

When your words enter the material world in the form of ink or on screen, you are immediately afforded the opportunity to judge their worth.

Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?

Writing is a lifelong disease. Once contracted, the only prescription is to write constantly in whatever form to express your condition, in whatever construction to carry your words beyond you.

You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.

A lot of the younger kids now can rap, but they’re scared of the crowd. Mastery of that stage is an MC. I don’t know if you’ve seen any great MCs on stage but when...

To maintain your integrity, just maintain your words in sanctity, and your works in sincerity. You can’t be really trusted when your works of today are standing against your words of yesterday!

I am a writer….a master of words.’Like a knife, words should be handled carefully. They can cut deeply, the wound may never heal, and the scar can remain for an eternity.

Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.

Gestures, in love, are incomparably more attractive, effective and valuable than words.

Your mind is definitely not meant to entertain and shelter any thought that goes against your positive desires. You should always be on guard against all self-defeating thoughts and words.

The sign stopped me– or rather, this text stopped me. Words are my profession; I seized these and demanded that they explain themselves, that they cease to be ambiguous.

Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.

In my mind, numbers and words are far more than squiggles of ink on a page. They have form, color, texture and so on. They come alive to me, which is why as a young...

Your words are energy. If you don’t speak them, then you will drink them. Swallow that thought, but do not gargle it.

I am no novel-reader — I seldom look into novels — Do not imagine that I often read novels — It is really very well for a novel.” Such is the common cant. “And what...

I haven’t sold to the movies. In other words, I haven’t gotten any enormous checks yet.

silence can be words but words cannot be silence

I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.

What Christ gives us is quite explicit if his own words are interpreted according to their Aramaic meaning. The expression ‘This is my Body’ means this is myself.

It makes no difference what Christ or Buddha said.

God’s words first… obey God’s law first before considering the laws of man.

However, those who have used those words use half the sentence to fit their purpose, which, of course, I believe is to discredit me and the new Nation of Islam that has come up around...

Letter make words. Words make stories. And stories can be changed with strong enough magic.

It was enough just to sit there without words.

It is really hard to completely re-learn how to express yourself without using words. When you take away speech, you have to re-invent the way you express yourself. You have to exaggerate your body language...

Deeds speak more than words.

Of all man’s instruments, the most wondrous, no doubt, is the book. The other instruments are extensions of his body. The microscope, the telescope, are extensions of his sight; the telephone is the extension of...

Progressives’ don’t just redefine (and valorize) deviancy; they insist on renaming it, too.

Words have their own hierarchy, their own protocol, their own artistic titles, their own plebeian stigmas.

Take it for words. O woman’s poor revenge,Which dwells but in the tongue!

Like so many colours, like so many flavours, like so many fragrance, English grammar should be a personal choice.

It was a world of acts, and words had no more influence on acts than the sound of a waterfall has on the flow of the stream.

…why is my cat a Muse? the cat has the rare grace of never saying a word too much― Mark Twain …that’s why …

They can be like the sun, words.They can do for the heart what light can for a field.

Not in books only, nor yet in oral discourse, but often also in words there are boundless stores of moral and historic truth, and no less of passion and imagination laid up, from which lessons...

Four-letter words have always offended me. I cringe at hearing them. Can’t, don’t, and won’t are the worst.

She said, ‘It is filled with all the words for how I want you.

So this is what I amPondering his eyes that could notConceive that I was a creature to run fromI who have always believed too much in words

Not enough youths fighting windmills. And the old are fearful, jaded or dead. Do not ask me what to do. I am just as cowardly as you. And do not tell me it is enough...

But there were too many points at which the other self could invade the self he wanted to preserve, and there were too many forms of invasion: certain words, sounds, lights, actions his hands or...

It is convenient to distinguish the two kinds of experience which have thus been described, the experienc-ing and the experienc-ed, by technical words.

It was the look on her face when she said it. And how much she meant it. It suddenly made everything seem like it really was. I felt terrible. Just terrible.

Men command fewer words than they have ideas to express, and language, as Jean Paul said, is a dictionary of faded metaphors.

We open our mouths and out flow words whose ancestries we do not even know. We are walking lexicons. In a single sentence of idle chatter we preserve Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Norse; we carry a museum...

Crash studied her. Sometimes he seemed to understand her silence better than her words.

He is neither manifest nor hidden, He is neither revealed nor unrevealed: there are no words to tell that which He is. He is without form, without quality, without decay.