The sky was like ebony and the only illumination was the harsh white light of the central streetlamp, which cast shadows so hard it seemed you might cut yourself on them.

Además de esclavo de las palabras, a veces se es también esclavo de los silencios, sobre todo de los más cobardes.

Display politeness and frankness always both in action and conversation. Don’t keep engaging in useless arguments. It scares your dreams away. Talk sensibly.

Words can heal, words can also kill. Choose your words carefully so that you’ll pull people away from their emotional graves rather than pushing them into it! Inspire, don’t insult!

Conversations are like dances. Two people effortlessly move in step with one another, usually anticipating the other person’s next move. If one of the dancers moves in an unexpected direction, the other typically adapts and...

Love is wind for the soul

Put emotions to thoughts. Thoughts to words. Words to paragraphs. Paragraphs to pictures. Let your mind be known, heard and seen. Your thoughts are real as it could be.

Writers often torture themselves trying to get the words right. Sometimes you must lower your expectations and just finish it.

He ate and drank the precious words,His spirit grew robust;He knew no more that he was poor,Nor that his frame was dust.He danced along the dingy days,And this bequest of wingsWas but a book. What...

I’m a storyteller. I love to tell stories about brands. I love to tell stories, period. I like painting pictures through the words, and that’s what I do.

I like the sound of words, but I don’t ever really expect my slow, slanted impression of the world to change by what I read.

A chef should make a dish using only my words as ingredients. My words will taste great in your mouth.

Love is nebulous, like my idea of what the word nebulous even means.

At the gates of Heaven, if you had the chance to plead your case before Jesus, what will you say? Say nothing because your words cannot save you. John 3:16

But if you have big ideas you have to use big words to express them, haven’t you?

They exchanged a few words. It was nothing substantive.

The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

Be a poet in action as well as in words.

Words could never satisfy me, but life satisfies me.

Why are you so sad? – Because you speak to me in words and I look at you with feelings.

Words are not meant to stir the air only: they are capable of moving greater things.

Sometimes I’ll write without the guitar or the piano, but most of the time I’ll be playing and just improvising some words. And when I get something that sounds good, a line with a story...

Because all the words in the world won’t do much good if they’re just rattling around in your head.

It’s Sanjit. It’s a Hindu name. It means ‘invincible.'””That’s great,” Lana said.”Invincible. I can’t be vinced.””That’s not even a word,” Lana said.”Go ahead: try to vince me,” Sanjit said.

Everything that drowned me taught me how to swim.

We Christians must build all of our thinking in every area on the Bible. We must start with God’s Word, not the word of finite, fallible man. We must judge what people say on the...

Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves.

Never use five words if you can get away with one, eh? I’ve known dead men talk more than you do.

I’ll use the blood from my spilling heart to write the words that were never able to slip out of my mouth, so you can see how much you’ve broken me into a perpetual state...

speech to him was a task, a battle, words mustered behind his beard and issued one at a time, heavy and square like tanks.

…words are so strong and I am so timid – my soul ignores warnings and I end up covered with your paint …

I took on a year of reading books for a reason. Because words are witness to life: they record what has happened, and they make it all real. Words create the stories that become history...

Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .

For a season, a gifted speaker can inspire with his words, but for a lifetime John McCain has inspired with his deeds.

My stepfather, John O’Hara, was the goodest man there was. He was not a man of many words, but of carefully chosen ones. He was the one parent who didn’t try to fix me. One...

All we are, all we can be, are the stories we tell,” he says, and he is talking as if he is talking only to me. “Long after we are gone, our words will be...

The impossible talked of is less impossible from the moment words are laid to it.

Reciting from rote seems a terrible way to honor the gods and a precise killing of the power of the words.

You may not have money, you may not have medicine, you may not have miracles, but you do have words, and they can produce life, or death depending on how you use them.

Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men’s thoughts, to speak other men’s words, to follow other men’s habits.

Words are thought descriptors. They project thoughts from anonymity. They transfer thoughts into messages. Messages move the world.

Sometimes you want to say things, and you’re missing an idea to make them with, and missing a word to make the idea with. In the beginning was the word. That’s how somebody tried to...

Rap in its form is poetry, meaning the point of convergence is words.

You know your heart and soul are stapled to that manuscript, but what we see are the words on the paper

everything that is scatteredcomes together in wordseverything that is lostcomes back in poetry.

DYER. No, I am not of your Mind, for the Dialogue was fitted up with too much Facility. Words must be pluckt from Obscurity and nourished with Care, improved with Art and corrected with Application....

Reading is sometimes thought of as a form of escapism, and it’s a common turn of phrase to speak of getting lost in a book. But a book can also be where one finds oneself;...

I love that word. Forever. I love that forever doesn’t exist, but we have a word for it anyway, and use it all the time. It’s beautiful and doomed.

They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.

Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power.