Women’s Tongues are as sharp as two-edged Swords, and wound as much, when they are anger’d.

That was the thing about words, they were clear and specific–chair, eye, stone–but when you talked about feelings, words were too stiff, they were this and not that, they couldn’t include all the meanings. In...

One of my little girls is named Reagan. Her first words were, ‘Mr. Larry, tear down this crib.’ That was her first words, it was very sweet. My first words were, ‘Are you going to...

The right words to express oneself can never be found in any dictionary.

Yes, I read. I have that absurd habit. I like beautiful poems, moving poetry, and all the beyond of that poetry. I am extraordinarily sensitive to those poor, marvelous words left in our dark night...

It seems to me that those songs that have been any good, I have nothing much to do with the writing of them. The words have just crawled down my sleeve and come out on...

. . .our whispered words, faintly in the darkness, dissolvingwithin the trees—then, fleeting words of consolationwould not suffice if feigned, and flippant wordsconfessed reluctance—our wordswere meaningless uttered on the wind. . .

Look, words are like the air: they belong to everybody. Words are not the problem; it’s the tone, the context, where those words are aimed, and in whose company they are uttered. Of course murderers...

Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.

Who knew paper and ink could be so vicious

Words are things. You must be careful, careful about calling people out of their names, using racial pejoratives and sexual pejoratives and all that ignorance. Don’t do that. Some day we’ll be able to measure...

Performance art is about joy, about making something that’s so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can’t put into words.

always tell the truth and you’ll never have to remember your words.

The urge to convert experience into a group of words that are in a grammatical relation to one another is the most basic, ongoing impulse of my life.

I told her about school and how I sat on a wall there and felt stories and words move through me …

We must be loyal to the truth, not to our words! Change your words if they are not compatible with the truth; go back on your words, throw them to the bin!

Family. It was just a word…Could see its letters all strung together. But it was a symbol, too. And people thought they knew what it meant…It was a thing everyone had an opinion about—that it...

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.

I was so anxious. Words cannot even express it.

The wise man reveals more than words spoken.

Some people have the coldest smiles, but have the tenderest hearts. And many have the most tender smiles, but carry the coldest hearts. You cannot judge a man by his smile, but you can judge...

Do not use poisonous words against anyone, for words wound more fatally than even arrows.

Some guy hit my fender, and I told him, ‘Be fruitful and multiply,’ but not in those words.

People keep asking me …How to instantly become a better writer? It’s simple: Use “power words” and see for yourself.

You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a life.

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?