Quotes About Words

Between opponents who will not physically fight, a punch line is equivalent to a punch.

it's way too early for him to be talking anyhow but I see in his eyes something and I see in his eyes a voice and I see in his eyes a whole new set of words

He was going to punish me now. He couldn't beat me up with his old man fists, but he could hurt me with his old man words.

The connection was good. I could hear her breathing in the spaces between our words. How do you talk to the real person whose ghost has haunted you? How do you tell the difference between the two?

Words can be like that, you know? Whenever I get into arguments now, I remember her and I also remember Muhammad Ali. He knew the power of his fists but, more importantly, he knew the power of his words, too.

How could one sentence uttered in anger cause so much damage? But then words were the most powerful thing in the universe. Cuts and bruises always healed, but words spoken in anger were most often permanent. They didn't damage the body, they destroyed the spirit. (Acheron)

Words are easy to say, but emotions betray the best intentions.

One word can give someone the strengththey needed at the moment or it can shred them down to nothing. A single smile can turn a bad moment good. And one wrong outburstcould be that tiny push that causes someone to slip over the edge of destruction.

May the gods damn you all! (Talon) The gods don't damn us, we damn ourselves by our words and deeds. (Acheron)

Verbal blows cut to the soul and ate at the heart for eternity.

I guess they didn't have those in the Middle Ages, did they? (Taryn) Middle Ages? Lady, you use very strange words. (Sparhawk) Yeah, okay, let me not tarry. I shall dress forthwith and hasten myself back to thee or thou or whatever it is. (Taryn) She's a strange demoiselle, but a highly amusing one. (Sparhawk)

One person could make such a difference in someone's life. Either good or bad. With their actions and words, a single individual had the power to save or destroy another.

Cuts and bruises always healed, but words spoken in anger were most often permanent. They didn't damage the body, they destroyed the spirit.

Grammar is the greatest joy in life, don't you find?

If you fall into water, you may still be saved. But if you fall down in literary matters, there is no life left for you.

She was quiet for a moment or two. Then she said: Cruel words are a terrible thing, Quash. Sometimes you regret them. But what's been said cannot be unsaid.

if only my whole life could be words and music, if only everything else could slip away.

We all go through life and say a lot of things that we don't really mean.

Every song is like a reflection of some emotions and words that we wanted to say to someone else, or some currents of life that went through our brains.

Fine words lack all meaning when we are confronted by real suffering.

The most ordinary words have amazing life in them.

Folks, just a few minutes of my voice can change a life.

I cannot imagine life without books any more than I can imagine life without breathing.

If only people could travel as easily as words. Wouldn't that be something? If only we could be so easily revised.