Quotes About Words

People don't really believe in words. Or rather, people believe in words only for a stretch of time. Then they start to look for action.

All our actions, as well as our thoughts and words, should praise Him who always blesses us.

Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.

The essence of lying is in deception, not in words.

Sometimes I wish my first word was 'quote,' so that on my death bed, my last words could be 'end quote.'

We must use words to uplift and include. We can use our words to fight back against oppression and hate. But we must also channel our words into action.

Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.

Poetry and lyrics are very similar. Making words bounce off a page.

If you don't give power to the words that people throw at you to hurt you, they don't hurt you anymore. And you actually have power over those people.

People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone understands words. With me, it is exactly the opposite, and not only with regard to an entire speech but also with individual words.

Before the scene, before the paragraph, even before the sentence, comes the word. Individual words and phrases are the building blocks of fiction, the genes that generate everything else. Use the right words, and your fiction can blossom. The French have a phrase for it - le mot juste - the exact right word in the exact right position.

The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.

I say there're no depressed words just depressed minds.

You don't have to be a poet, you don't have to be a politician or be in the White House to make an impact with your words. We all have this capacity to find solutions for the future.

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.

One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

You can still say whatever you want to say on social media, but you have to be willing to stand by your words.

I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.

This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.

When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike.

The human brain is a funny thing: it's very susceptible to tempo and melody. You put the right words to it, and it becomes very influential.

Language and identity are so fundamentally intertwined. You peel back all the layers in terms of what we wear and what we eat and all the things that mark us, and in the end, what we have are our words.

A fool and his words are soon parted.

It is very difficult to find appropriate words to say 'thank you' for an honour like the Nobel Prize. It is the supreme honour that a scientist can receive. Some of the giants in physics and chemistry have received this prize.