Quotes About Words

She'd heard once that shaping your lips into a smile whether you meant it or not made your words sound happier.

A sentence is a set of words expressing themselves. A book is a set of words put together to change your consciousness."

There is a deep silence in the words that you can only hear when you are reading."

I write because I love to play with language.

Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service.

Men little know when they say hard things to us how well we remember them, and how much harm they do us.

In an article titled "Consequences of Erudite Vernacular Utilized Irrespective of Necessity: Problems with Using Long Words Needlessly," he showed that couching familiar ideas in pretentious language is taken as a sign of poor intelligence and low credibility

Los diccionarios solo garantizan una pizca de eternidad...

Di tutto, ai libri facciamo subire di tutto. Ma solo il modo in cui gli altri li maltrattano ci ferisce...

He was an echo chamber for all books, the physical incarnation of words, the book made human.

Perché le parole hanno una storia, mica ci cadono dalla bocca come un uovo di giornata! Le parole evolvono, le loro vite sono imprevedibili quanto le nostre.

Because of their impact on our memories, writers rule. They wield the instrument by which our world is organized.

Language does have the power to change reality. Therefore, treat your words as the mighty instruments they are - to heal, to bring into being, to remove, as if by magic, the terrible violations of childhood, to nurture, to cherish, to bless, to forgive - to create from the whole cloth of your soul, true love.

I kept reverting to my basic question: how does it help us to say that the Bible is the inerrant word of God if in fact we don't have the words that God inerrantly inspired, but only the words copied by the scribes—sometimes correctly and sometimes (many times!) incorrectly?

The Constitution of the United States of America, Article V, Section 1: There shall be a National Anthem containing incomprehensible words and a high note that normal humans cannot hit without risk of hernia.

I worked at Salon.com way back when they started, and there's just unmeasurable value to distributing words online, too, but I still get my news from the newspaper in the morning.

Watch your thoughts, for they become words. Watch your words, for they become actions. Watch your actions, for they become habits. Watch your habits, for they become your character. Watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.

I don't think socialism, and I don't think warmness and respect are necessarily bad words.

And what is wrong with playing with words? Words love to be played with, just like children or kittens do!

This very subject—the inequity of offense that right-thinking people take around differing hate words—came up when a friend of mine, a man who very much would be thought of as a progressive, questioned me about this central premise of the film.

Jeremy, Teremy, Meremy, Heremy, Queremy, Smellemy, Sea Anemone and Dave.

To try to capture "all the words of a language" is as futile as trying to capture all the drops of water in a flowing river.

The words of law often look like words of the language you speak, but when they are legal terms, they are not.

Translation is meaning.