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

In the end, it is my belief, words are the only things that can construct a world that makes sense.

It’s important to be precise about words, because of the thought value of them-they frame and shape so much of the way we understand things.

These hands elate my life, choke me, broil my bosom, spank me, give fire to my words, my words, mother, my heart beats in my words.

Gods? Don’t let that impress you. Anyone can be a god if they have enough worshippers. You don’t even have to have powers anymore. In my time I’ve seen theatre gods, gladiator gods, even storyteller...

What we’re doing, or, I should say, what you’re doing, since no one has taught me any good words, is dropping recipes into people’s brains to cause a neurochemical reaction to knock out the filters....

I was thinking lots of things, but most of them needed to stay thoughts, not words.

The word of lust touches the body, the word of love touches the soul: feed the soul and starve the body.

As a boy, I used to marvel that the letters in a closed book did not get scrambled and lost overnight.

…at the end of the day there was nothing to be gained by reminding people that everything that had ever been written, even the greatest and most authoritative texts in the world, were about dreams,...

These words are the same ones that the late Imam (Khomeini) said,

It feels like spoken words, this bridge. I want it but fear it. God, I want so desperately to reach the other side – just like I want the words. I want my words to...

I don’t think of poetry as a ‘rational’ activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more because of their sound than their meaning, and the movement...

All in all, I’d heard people do a lot of things with words. I’d heard them not say what they meant and I’d seen them not do what they said, but I’d never met a...

We have these words ‘space’ and ‘time,’ but you can’t touch them. They’re not objects, they’re not things, they go forever. Space and time are really tools of animal sense perception, the way we organize...

If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it’s the same the other way around.

The starting point for understanding the deterioration in the relationship between the U.S. and Russia lies in Washington rather than Moscow. After 1989, Russia was a defeated power. Despite the fine words and some limited...

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.