Quotes About Words

Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.

All that must disappear Is but a parable; What lay beyond us, here All is made visible; Here deeds have understood Words they were darkened by; The Eternal Feminine Draws us on high.

Every thought and every word you speak is an affirmation. So why not choose to use only positive affirmations to create an exceptional life? I know you can do it!

Life is too fleet for onomatopoeia.

I want words at my funeral. But I guess that means you need life in your life.

Life itself was only futility, vain words, a squabble of cap and bells.

Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.

The spoken word vanished with the wind. Likewise, the unrecorded life disappears as if it never existed.

I too complain ceaselessly in my heart and in my words too. My very life is a protest. Against government, for instance.

Every thought we think and every word we speak is an affirmation of what we believe about life and it's the same with magnetism.

He gave life to the breath- oxygen, a simple gas, he transferred into words, ideas, hope.

To change your world, you must change your words. It's the rudder (James 3:4-5) of your life.

I watch life trickle from the bullet wound of a sixteen-year-old "example" and marvel how things weak, even words, will turn vicious and merciless to gain power,despite reason or history

All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part.

Well "I do" are the two most famous last words. The beginning of the end. But to lose your life for another I've heard is a good place to begin.

The material of literary talent is words; the material of story talent is life itself.

You have heard that Christ said, 'My words are spirit and they are life'. So are my words spirit and life; they will burn their way into your brain and you will never get away from them!

My first words was thug for life and papa pass the mack

The reason literacy is important is that literature is the operating instructions. The best manual we have. The most useful guide to the country we're visiting, life.

You know, I have found in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.

Real life is a funny thing, you know. In real life saying the right thing at the right time is beyond crucial.

You can tear a poem apart to see what makes it tick.... You're back with the mystery of having been moved by words. The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps... so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash or thunder in.

When there's a negative word or expression-immaculate, for example-but the positive is almost never used, and you choose to use it, you become rather amusing. Or pretentious. Or pretentiously amusing, which can sometimes be good. In any case, you are uncovering a buried word.

Every word affords me pain. Yet how sweet it would be if I could hear what the flowers have to say about death!