Quotes About Words

Poet To mask the fiery thought, in simple words succeeds. For still the craft of genius is, To mask a king in weeds

The etymologist finds the deadest words to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry.

Apa yang kita fikir ibarat bunga,bahasa ibarat putik,manakala tindakan adalah buahnya.

Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst.

But Homer's words are as costly and admirable to Homer, as Agamemnon's victories are to Agamemnon

wish to love Jesus as a glorified friend, in the free spirit of friendship—not pay him a stiff sign of respect, as people do before someone they fear. How do I think we should commemorate Jesus' life? By reading his words, imitating his kindness and generosity, and doing anything that awakens our minds and opens our hearts to virtue and love.

I don't really believe anything I say. Because the nature of my work concerns the spaces between the words, rather than the words themselves.

To reconnect consciousness with the unconscious, to make consciousness symbolical is to reconnect words with silence; to let the silence in. If consciousness is all words and no silence, the unconscious remains unconscious."—N.O. Brown

The power of the words we speak is far greater than we realize. "Life and death is in the power of the tongue" (Proverbs 18:21).

Cuvintele "te iubesc" fac acelaÈ™i lucru - ele sunt modelate de trecut, celebreaz? prezentul È™i dau glas speranÈ›ei în ce priveÈ™te viitorul.

A book is a loaded gun.

I was doing a terrible thing in using the very books you clung to, to rebut you on every hand, on every point! What traitors books can be! You think they're backing you up, and then they turn on you. Others can use them, too, and there you are, lost in the middle of the moor, in a great welter of nouns and verbs and adjectives.

Writing can be described in two verbs: Throw up and clean up.

chain-smoking, chapter by chapter, all the silly things the words mean, all the false promises, all the second-hand notions and time-worn philosophies.

He lay far across the room from her, on a winter island separated by an empty sea. She talked to him for what seemed a long while and she talked about this and she talked about that and it was only words, like the words he had heard once in a nursery at a friend's house, a two-year-old child building word patters, like jargon, making pretty sounds in the air.

In the dim, wavering light, a page hung open and it was like a snowy feather, the words delicately painted thereon. In all the rush and fervor, Montag had only an instant to read a line, but it blazed in his mind for the next minute as if stamped there with fiery steel.

Silly words, silly words, silly awful hurting words.

Light the third page from the second and so on, chain-smoking, chapter by chapter, all the silly things the words mean, all the false promises, all the second-hand notions and time-worn philosophies

Not words in books or words you say, but real thoughts, real actions, quick thought, quick action, win the day.

It's not so much bad or good as strange and outré, Finn, and words like rococo, I should guess, and baroque if you go with my drift?

Give a man a few lines of verse and he thinks he's the Lord of all Creation

You can't ever have my books," she said.

the crisis is past and all is well, the sheep returns to the fold. We're all sheep who have strayed at times. Truth is truth, to the end of reckoning, we've cried. They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts, we've shouted to ourselves. 'Sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge,' Sir Philip Sidney said. But on the other hand: 'Words are like leaves and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.

Hästi sõnastatud teadmised on hea vaimutoit,» ütles Philip Sidney. Aga teisest küljest: «Sõnad on nagu puude lehed — sealt, kus neid on ohtralt, võib harva leida palju mõistuse vilja.» Alexander Pope.