we are destroyed or uplifted by what they hear instantly or cumulatively

While those words may be reassuring, ultimately we need more than words.

That night two lovers whispering under the lead canopy of the church were killed by their own passion. Their effusion of words, unable to escape through the Saturnian discipline of lead, so filled the spaces...

Words, like people, hate to be the slaves of ideas

(Richardson) stepped up tonight and I can’t put into words what she does. If every team had a kid like that, they would be much better and if it wasn’t for Andrea Richardson we wouldn’t...

There is no surer or more illuminating way of reading a man’s character, and perhaps a little of his past history, than by observing the contexts in which he prefers to use certain words.

She had always wanted words, she loved them; grew up on them. Words gave her clarity, brought reason, shape.

I would rather my heart be without words than my words be without heart.

Words are free, action is not.

No days, perhaps, of all our childhood are ever so fully lived are those that we had regarded as not being lived at all: days spent wholly with a favourite book.

A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader and the intonation it imposes upon his voice and the changing and durable...

it’s doesn’t matter how long you spend the time writing words , the only thing that matter , is for how long your words will have an influence on their reader .

I wish many things, but I wish I had been able to tell you that I love you, in so many more ways than that word can convey in Alben.

The more I did it―the more it owned me. It made things matter. It put a spine into my spineless life and that spine spread, into backbone, ribs, collarbone, neck held high.It was something. Don’t...

For a moment, I debated whether I should tell someone about the words I’d started writing down, but I couldn’t. In a way, I felt ashamed, even though my writing was the one thing that...

…I need you to be a listener – you need me to hang word on. We’re friends because neither has discovered a limit where the other ends…

You have to have a plot too, you know? Because without it, your life is less of a story and more of an empty paper.

I often feel an aversion, even disgust at the same words written and spoken over and over – at the same expressions, phrases, and metaphors repeated. And the worst is, when I listen to myself...

Three carefully stringed words are worth more than a book of gibberish. It’s not the word count but the impact of those words that counts.

I’m very proud of ‘The Words’ and all the cast. I think Lee Sternthal and Brian Klugman are like new directors, and I really believe in them, and they’re gonna rock everything.

What if, as an act of worship, creating something meant healing and restoration took place instead of pain and frustration?

Communication between band-mates is imperative. Communication is the key to any healthy relationship. If I need to be checked, I expect to hear it put in plain words what my faults are, and give my...

…there are some things for which there are no answers, no matter how beautiful the words may be.

Words alone are certain good.

…the words make our silences easier–they’re the current that runs under them.

People to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.

Uttering foul words, while there are the sweetest of words, is like going for the unripe fruits while there are a lot of ripe ones.

Don’t let someone’s words blind you from their behavior.

One can simply never take back the words he spoke.And when you know you unintentionally did hurt someone, instead of letting it go or keeping a distance from that person, you can actually do something...

poetry. i am not writing it.(make way for me please)it is my skin. dripping with light.

His writer’s words poured over her like poetry, and she couldn’t find a single wisecrack to put up between them.

Words are wise men’s counters, they do but reckon by them: But they are the money of fools, that value them by the authority of an Aristotle, a Cicero, or a Thomas, or any other...

Miri took genuine comfort in studying Mathematics that day. She could sort numbers into two simple ideas: true and not true. Unlike numbers, words were rarely just one thing. They moved and changed, camouflaging and...

Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.

I suppose if I had to give a one-word answer to the question of why I read, that word would be pleasure. The kind of pleasure you can get from reading is like no other...

Słowa same poprowadzą. Słowa wszystko na wierzch wywleką. Słowa i z najgłębszej głębi wydrą, co gdzieś boli i skowycze. Słowa krwi upuszczą i od razu lżej się robi.

OBSOLETE, adj. No longer used by the timid. Said chiefly of words. A word which some lexicographer has marked obsolete is ever thereafter an object of dread and loathing to the fool writer, but if...

Unless followed by the world ‘education’, liberal has now lost this meaning [seeking knowledge or doing something for its own sake — i.e. ‘freely’ with no exterior motive]. For that loss, so damanging to the...

The guys I grew up with, my cinematic heroes, have always been men of few words, but of action. Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach.

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one’s never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

We speak the ebonics of Spanish. The first things we learned were the numbers and cuss words.

The Best Thoughts are often those which are spoken without giving any thoughts.

I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.

Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had...

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.

Step out from behind the words. When you’re a writer you can imagine that the words speak for you and are you, but they’re not. You are this living breathing bad hair day kind of...

My feelings are too loud for words and too shy for the world.

No matter how hard we try words simply cannot express the horror, the shock, and the revulsion we all feel over what took place in this nation on Tuesday morning. September 11 will go down...

Bolt actions speak louder than words.

Children are gifts. They are not ours for the breaking. They are ours for the making.