Quotes About Words

I whispered into her ear, or meant to whisper – Bless you. Be careful. Anyone intending to meddle with words needs such blessing, such warning.

He has a vision of the top of his neck, opening up into his head like a bathroom drain. Fragments of words are swirling down it, in a grey liquid he realizes is his dissolving brain.

The bad bones have been bad, so they are better left unsaid. They are better left unsaying. But they were never happy, they always wanted more, they were always hungry. They can smell the words, the words coming out of your mouth all warm and yeasty. They want some words of their own. They'll be back.

I need words and print... I need print like an addict. I could live without it, perhaps. But I hope I never have to try.

La notte e vicina per me. Those were the words that an elderly Italian woman, an old crone who swept the stairs, had uttered to Fran when she was working as an au pair girl in Florence, a hundred years ago.

When actions do not square with words, trust the actions. Choose what you see people do, not what you imagine they would like to do.

Printing meant arranging the letters into words, the words into perfectly straight lines, and the lines into even blocks of text to be inked and pressed onto paper or vellum. And each small step of the process, which sounds so mundane today, required invention.

Ashley was imprisoned forever by words which were stronger than any jail.

Spelling is a way to make words safe, at least for now, until another technology appears to soften attacks launched from the mouth.

One can prove or refute anything at all with words. Soon people will perfect language technology to such an extent that they'll be proving with mathematical precision that twice two is seven.

We have rapidly increasing technology, which is making life very good for people who are good at using words, and not so good for people who are not good at using words.

People will kill you over time, and how they'll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases, like 'be realistic.'

Once upon a time," he said out loud to the darkness. He said these words because they were the best, the most powerful words that he knew and just the saying of them comforted him.

Hermione uses all these big long tongue twister words. I don't know what she's going on about half the time!

There's a Celtic saying, "Many a time a man's mouth broke his nose."

Everything we say signifies; everything counts, that we put out into the world. It impacts on kids, it impacts on the zeitgeist of the time.

If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.

It is important that you say what you mean to say. Time is too short. You must speak the words that matter.

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

There's a time for words and a time for silence. If you're listening, you'll hear the difference.

The words that come out of our mouths do not vanish but are perpetually stored in infinite space, and they will come back to us in due time.

The only thing I'd rather own than Windows is English. Then I'd be able to charge you an upgrade fee every time I add new letters like N and T.

The long silences need to be loved, perhaps more than the words which arrive to describe them in time.

Music fills in for words a lot of the time when people don't know what to say, and I think music can be more eloquent than words.