Quotes About Words

I fell victim to the temptation of every autobiographer, to the illusion that since the past exists only in one's memories and the words which strive vainly to encapsulate them, it is possible to create past events simply by saying they occurred.

in words and pickles, I have immortalized my memories, although distortions are inevitable in both methods. We must live, I'm afraid, with the shadows of imperfections.

Too many people spouting too many words, and in the end those words will turn to bullets and stones.

As though she had entered a fable, as though she were no more than words crawling along a dry page, or as though she were becoming that page itself, that surface on which her story would be written and across which there blew a hot and merciless wind, turning her body to papyrus, her skin to parchment, her soul to paper.

Is it possible to be jealous of written words?

The alphabet is where all our secrets begin.

But it's not as simple as that, he told himself, because the dance of the Shadow Warrior showed him that silence had its own grace and beauty (just as speech could be graceless and ugly); and that Action could be as noble as Words; and that creatures of darkness could be as lovely as the children of the light. If Guppees and Chupwalas didn't hate each other so, he thought, they might actually find each other pretty interesting. Opposites attract, as they say.

Bir toplumun kilidini açmak istiyorsan?z, tercüme edilemeyen kelimelerine bak?n.

Esta noite, ao rolhar energicamente um frasco com a etiqueta Fórmula Especial n.º 30, cheguei ao fim da minha longa autobiografia: em palavras e em conserva, imortalizei as minhas recordações, ainda que, num como noutro método, seja inevitável a distorção. Temos de viver, receio bem, com as sombras da imperfeição.

This is how religions shore up dictators; by encircling them with words of power, words which the people are reluctant to see discredited, disenfranchised, mocked.

Words are for word people. You are not a person of that type. Concern yourself only with deeds.

the dance of the Shadow Warrior showed him that silence had its own grace and beauty (just as speech could be graceless and ugly); and that Action could be as noble as Words; and that creatures of darkness could be as lovely as the children of the light.

In death as in life he would be full of unspoken words and they would be his Hell, tormenting him through all eternity.

In the silence that is his chosen medium of communication and telling others about it in words. Is there no way not to be the sport of reason?

If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be of no help.

Silence is no weakness of language. It is, on the contrary, its strength. It is the weakness of words not to know this.

In our thoughts and words we create our own weaknesses and our own strengths.

The word 'comfort' comes from the Latin words for 'with' and 'strength' and originally meant operating from a position of power.

Weak people talk and do not act, strong people act and keep quiet.

For success, the author must make the reader care about the destiny of the principals, and sustain this anxiety, or suspense, for about 100,000 words.

An orator or author is never successful till he has learned to make his words smaller than his ideas.

Because words have deep meaning, Tweets have power.

Mind your speech a little lest you should mar your fortunes.

Success and vocabulary go hand in hand. This has been proven so often that it no longer admits of argument.