When you speak, your words echo only across the room or down the hall. but when you write, your words echo down the ages.

Comedians are innately programmed to pick up oddities like mispronounced words, upside-down books on a shelf, and generally undetectable mistakes in everyday life.

Better than a thousand sayings Made up of useless wordsIs one word of meaning Which calms you to hear it.

Words impress me. If a man can speak eloquently and beautifully to me, I just melt on the floor.

Words rich in meaning can be cheap in sound effects.

Eternity is a glorious word, but eternity is ice.

His heart is too full, and no words to release it.

One should therefore not rely on mere words, but everywhere search for the intention behind them. (121)

We have cut the text, but what remains are Shakespeare’s words.

I have seen these persons speak unthinkingly, not realizing that to speak is also to be. Word and gesture are man’s thought. We should not speak without reason.

She had large, questioning eyes that seemed to draw me in and a sense of quiet outrage that simmered just beneath the surface. More than anything, within her features, there was a streak of wild...

Tyler’s words coming out of my mouth. I used to be such a nice person.

We can’t change the world by shouting, but our words can have meaning if we give them enough respect.

When the actions becomes frequent than the words, success becomes heavier than the dreams. Do more, say less.

If I may use such a word when I am speaking of religious subjects, it is by voice and words that men ‘mesmerize’ each other. Hence it is that the world is converted by the...

He did not say many words. He was very happy.

I dream of lost vocabularies that might express some of what we no longer can.

I’m asleep.” You always were more romantic than me.

(…) às vezes não se tem o que escrever mesmo quando se tem o que falar.

You hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear these words I say to myself, ‘That man is a Red, that man is a Communist!’ You never hear a...

Remember how it was when we kissed? Armfuls and armfuls of light thrown right at us. A rope dropping down from the sky. How can the word love and the word life even fit in...

Obviousism—I would give you a definition, but the definition would only be an example of the word.

A cabaret song has got to be written – for the middle voice, ideally – because you’ve got to hear the wit of the words. And a cabaret song gives the singer room to act,...

Slogans are mere wordsuck…

If toes had eyes,then I could seehow my feet know where to go,but toes are blind.And how is it that my tonguespeaks words it cannot hear?Because for all its eloquence,the tongue itself is deaf,and flaps...

I like playing around with the words; I love it when I feel like I’ve picked the exact right word to describe whatever it is I’m trying to describe.

A tough life needs a tough language—and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers—a language powerful enough to say how it is.

The seductive power of sex and money is nothing compared to that of words.

A man of few words will rarely be thoughtless in his speech; he will measure every word.

The words were good words, Ulysses felt, maybe even great words, but the list was very incomplete. He was just getting started. The words needed to be arranged, fussed with, put in the order of...

She entered the story knowing she would emerge from it feeling she had been immersed in the lives of others, in plots that stretched back twenty years, her body full of sentences and moments, as...

When I get started each day, I read through and correct the previous day’s 2,000 words, then start on the next. As I reach that figure, I try to simply stop and not go on...

Well, it seems I was able to get the words ‘Shabbat Shalom’ in the father’s mouth, … And there seems to be a certain Jewish quality to the whole show. So if it does seem...

Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

I may be deprived of eloquence, but my mind can never be a dumb.

I was on the point of breaking off the conversation, for nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.

Be less generous with your advice: live it instead. It is a bad situation when someone with a coughing fit attempts to sell a cough mixture. After all, action speaks far louder than words; living...

I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race – that rarely do I even simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so...

Nationalism – in other words, the dividing of the church into bodies – consisting of such and such a nation, is a novelty, not above three centuries old, although many dear children of God are...

…art is weaker than life – in the end I have a bag of letters to scrabble into order – rune tiles to cast my fate…

Silence is a great companion when words are devoid of meanings.

Gregorius was never to forget this scene. They were his first Portuguese words in the real world and they worked. That words could cause something in the world, make someone move or stop, laugh or...

I bleed words.I dream in narrative. I live in infinite worlds.I befriend figmental characters.I wish on stars in other galaxies.I harvest stories from a brooding muse.I bloom under moonlight in hushed seclusion.I am a writer.

When I feel the beauty in words, I am sensing the logic of heart.

The play is not in the words, it’s in you!

Words are very powerful,” Miss Possibelf said, stepping lightly between the rows of desk. “And they take on more power the more they’re spoken…. “The more they’re said and read and written,in specific, consistent combinations.

Not telling is just as interesting as telling I have found. Why speech, that short verbal journey from inside to outside can be excrutiating under certain circumstances is fascinating.

Have constructive thoughts, consoling words, compassionate acts.

Friends understand the unsaid words, no matter if they are silent for years.