Six Stars,’ he exclaimed. ‘Finding the right words is hard!

silence between two words is an endless road.

In other words, each piece of the building must look as though it was designed for that particular building.

Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.

A new word. Bright with possibilities. A flawless pearl to turn over and over in my hand, then put away for safekeeping.

Sometimes I sensed that the books I read in rapid succession had set up some sort of murmur among themselves, transforming my head into an orchestra pit where different musical instruments sounded out, and I...

Words can be twisted into any shape. Promises can be made to lull the heart and seduce the soul. In the final analysis, words mean nothing. They are labels we give things in an effort...

The orange flames waved at the crowd as paper and print dissolved inside them. Burning words were torn from their sentences.

I can’t put it into words. It’s an adrenaline rush. I think you have to be a quarterback with scrambling ability to understand it.

Let deeds match words.

‎Without a knowledge of where words come from, things disappear, history is lost.

There is nothing I detest so much as the contortions of these great time-and-lip servers, these affable dispensers of meaningless embraces, these obliging utterers of empty words, who view every one in civilities

Why certainly, words possess power. They do! But releasing their magic requires combining and arranging those words in the right order.

Powerful words harmonize heart and mind as if a symphony.

Defunctus adhuc loquitur” (Hebrews 11:4). Thanks to language, there is meaning, there is truth.

The problem in our country isn’t with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Surely it is an odd way to spend your life – sitting alone in a room with a pen in your hand, hour after hour, day after day, year after year, struggling to put words...

But he had turned, little by little, a disturbance into words, he had made a pillow of old words, for his head.

I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print, the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful big green fig-tree.

I was a brat. It was crazy, I was very picky. In other words, I didn’t take advantage of what was happening.

People talk a lot but they rarely say anything.

The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.

To be sure, Kennedy did not discount the importance of words in rallying the nation to meet its foreign and domestic challenges. Winston Churchill’s powerful exhortations during World War II set a standard he had...

What a curious power words have.

He is forced to coin words himself, and, taking his pain in one hand, and a lump of pure sound in the other (as perhaps the people of Babel did in the beginning), so to...

Letters are meaningless unless put together correctly. Words are worthless unless backed by truth. Sentences are handed out and judged accordingly, but only genuinely honest men or women can create writings that change the world...

Words are a great influence in actions, feelings, and simply just the meaning behind it.

Words can’t fix my life.Words can’t give me a family.Words can’t do jack.You may be a teacher, Ms. Leone, but face it: You don’t know squat.

The change of the word does not alter the matter

When it comes to words, rather than using our own voice, authentic and unpracticed, we steal someone else’s to shield our fear.

There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.

These thoughts did not come in any verbal formulation. I rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterward.

The paper burns, but the words fly free.

Digestion of words as well; I often read aloud to myself in my writing corner in the library, where no one can hear me, for the sake of better savouring the text, so as to...

One bright day in the last week of February, I was walking in the park, enjoying the threefold luxury of solitude, a book, and pleasant weather.

Grab your pen! Grab your sword! Eviscerate small minds with pinpoint force of mental might. Victory is in horizon’s sight!

One or a couple of good thoughts may be a fluke or derived from life’s challenges, a few can be a practice or a lesson from failures and bad experiences but the consistency of excellent...

Put your mouthful of words away and come with me to watch the lilies open in such a field, growing there like yachts, slowly steering their petals without nurses or clocks.

You’re like a dictionary. You know the word is in there, but you need to know how to spell what you want first

Many things are spoken out loud, but be careful of those words that you whisper to yourself. You have the ability to uplift yourself or condemn yourself. If your thoughts are depressingly running across your...

To write does not mean to convert the real into words but to make the power of the word real.

Is it possible to write a poem or are these words just screams of outlaws exiled to the desert?

You’ve gotten words about those American and Iraqi deaths and mutilations, but precious few images.

I don’t think, in all the years I managed them, I ever spoke more than thirty words to Frank and Brooks Robinson.

Do we not see the influence we have when we say we believe in one thing, but our children see us living something else? Do we not realize how little we encourage our children to...

Sky, wait.” The way his voice wraps around my name makes me wish the only word in his entire vocabulary way Sky.

Pretentiousness isn’t always just big words and meaningless jargon, but also pretty words that either when put into action don’t mean beans or hurt you in the long run. Oftentimes, the former appeals to the...

There are no words that can describe the euphoria you feel when your baby recognizes you for the first time and smiles.

Some words have to be explicitly uttered, Lenore. Only by actually uttering certain words does one really DO what one SAYS. ‘Love’ is one of those words, performative words. Some words can literally make things...

Writing is an abstract art of drawing pictures of the conscious and subconscious mind with words.