One of the joys of a really good book is that you’re so into the world of the book, you forget what you’re looking at is words on a page.

Where it makes me a little bit uncomfortable is taking the editorial content and turning one of those words into a commercial thing. I just feel like the actual editorial content within a news story...

Words are instruments, they are tools that, in their different ways, are as effective as any sharp edge or violate chemical. They are, like coins, items of great value, but they represent a currency that,...

Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world.

O, let my books be then the eloquenceAnd dumb presagers of my speaking breast;Who plead for love, and look for recompense,More than that tongue that more hath more express’d.O, learn to read what silent love...

Every spoken thought is just a symbol for something inside your brain. This word, out here, is like that thought in there. But it’s never exact. So, looking at it another way, every word you...

WORDS IN THE HEART CANNOT BE TAKEN.

Sympathies that lie too deep for words, too deep almost for thoughts, are touched, at such times, by other charms than those which the senses feel and which the resources of expression can realise.

Words are truly the image of the soul.

Language is something you inherit, it’s never just you doing the talking, which helps when you’re pretending.

I got words in me, Jess, fighting to find a way out. Sometimes there’s so many words and they get so crowded in my skull I think my head is gonna explode. I want to...

We are losing our common vocabulary, built over thousands of years to help and delight and instruct us, for the sake of what we take to be the new technology’s virtues.

The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbola never perfectly match. Eros is in between.

What is beauty, anyway? It’s more than something pleasant looking. If it doesn’t stop us in our tracks and make us unable to move for a moment, unable to put into words what’s closing off...

Harper, treat your words with careFor they may cause joy or despairSing your songs of health and loveOf dragons flaming from above

Sento ancora la follia scorrermi dentro, ma ancora non ho scritto le parole che avrei voluto, la tigre mi è rimasta sulla schiena. Morirò con addosso quella figlia di puttana, ma almeno le ho dato...

Before I spoke with people, I did not think of all these things because there was no one to bother to think them for. Now things just come out of my mouth which are true.

Find the pitch and pace and syllables and words you love to hear. Delight your own senses, and self-romance.

The great wheel of fire of ancient wisdom, silence and word engendering the myth of the origin, human action engendering the epic voyage toward the other; historical violence revealing the tragic flaw of the hero...

How many unuttered words died in the heads of those for whom a word was too expensive.

Where would you be without etymology’? Lea asked sarcastically.’I think I might find words a little less interesting,’ said Mr Ruche.

She didn’t know that all her life would be spent gambling with the stark rigidity of words, words that were coin: save, spend and all the time George with his own counter had found her...

The meaning of a story should go on expanding for the reader the more he thinks about it, but meaning cannot be captured in an interpretation. If teachers are in the habit of approaching a...

… and I realise the only way to tell the others is through the way my voice can take these broken wordsand turn it into music. Turn it into poetry.And I sing to make myself...

For myself, I favored the abstract. I collected not just obsolete terms and words, but ideas.

I’ve busted my tail this spring. I’ve gotten good words from the coaching staff and they’ve helped me out a lot. They don’t want you to let up and they haven’t let me do that,...

How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.

Thoughts have unique beauties you will never able to express it in words.

Thus, words being symbols of ideas, we can collect ideas by collecting words. The fellow who said he tried reading the dictionary but couldn’t get the hang of the story simply missed the point: namely,...

My heart’s scripture tastes foreign in the mouths of cowards and on the tongues of those who have never breathed inthe moon and breathed out the world.

When are programmers happy? They’re happy when they’re not underutilized – when they’re not bored – and also when they’re not overburdened with inappropriate specifications or meaningless bureaucracies. In other words, programmers are happiest when...

Toppling sounds like it jumped from a tall building and landed gracefully on is g.

A precious, mouldering pleasure ’t is To meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege, I think.

I did not know then that words and music are more deadly than any spear.

The President had every reason to believe that the text presented to him was sound… These 16 words should never have been included in the text written for the president.

Word” is too long to be short, like a 4” tall non-midget. My favorite word is love, and though it’s not long, it’s by far the tallest word.

Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you.

I have things in my head that are not like what anyone taught me — shapes and ideas so near to me,so natural to my way of being and thinking.

He wanted to cry quietly but not for himself: for the words, so beautiful and sad, like music.

That’s the point of words. They get around.

My books are a word feast.

I don’t know if there are words to describe my motivation.

Whatever is language is poetic language and if the word required by the poet does not exist in his known language then it is up to him to discover it.

Words. I had always loved them. I collected them, like I had collected pretty stones as a child.

In such troubled times, we must remember the value writers have—the value of inventing new language to keep pace with the rapidly transforming world around us.

As a result of these news stories, millions of people must have become aware of “niggardly,” who otherwise would never have heard it, let alone thought to use it. If this is right, and the...

If I can sit down at my keyboard and have a melody that says something that I can’t with words, that’s a really beautiful thing.

Quem diria que as palavras que nunca chegamos a dizer assentassem tão pesadamente?

There is light in the world, and it is time.

YOUR WORDS ARE SEEDS. You have the choice to speak life or death. Your words have a nucleus.They can be magnificent co creations with angels, producing mind silk. Or, they can be the polymers of...