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Quotes About Words

Some time all kinds of letters will be published to the ineffable delight of endless readers.
~ Alice B. Toklas
I practice reading all the time. I read everything and having so many scripts to read, which really helps out as well.
~ Bella Thorne
No time for better words, no time to unsay anything. -Til We Have Faces
~ C. S. Lewis
A coward may cover the ground with his words but when the time comes to fight he runs away.
~ Chinua Achebe
As you see, context is everything and nothing at the same time. Words stand alone and with each other.
~ Daisy Whitney
Part of me likes words as music sabotage, and part of me wonders why anyone would waste their time liking anything to do with sabotage.
~ Dan Bejar
Jewels five-words-long, That on the stretch'd forefinger of all Time Sparkle forever.
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson
I liked the idea of the words floating in space and the space behind it moving all the time, ever changing.
~ Robert Barry
Pass down values every day through your actions, your words and your time with your kids.
~ Robert H. Frank
For the time being Words scatter Are they fallen leaves?
~ Ruth Ozeki
I put my foot in my mouth every time I'm interviewed.
~ Selma Blair
Time is a wind that keeps blowing in my face and mumbling words that don't make sense.
~ Shannon Hale
Maybe the words are the same, but the time is not the same. Iranians weren't working on achieving nuclear energy.
~ Shirin Ebadi
It amazes me, how many words there are spoken, how many thoughts...yet each speaks freshly to me each time as if they were never once spoken before.
~ Stefanie Schneider
But the words are easy and soothing, promising tomorrow will be more hopeful than this awful piece o time we call today.
~ Suzanne Collins
I must make a choice every time I speak a sentence in English. I try to choose the happier way of saying things, so that my own words will not weigh me down like stones.
~ Tad Williams
When I'm about to start writing, I pull up some of my all-time-favorite re-reads to feel inspired and fall headfirst into the world of beautiful words.
~ Violet Duke
But O, sick children of the world, Of all the many changing things In dreary dancing past us whirled, To the cracked tune that Chronos sings, Words alone are certain good.
~ William Butler Yeats
My oldest sister was an actress living in NYC by the time I was ten, and desperately wanted to be the one in charge of the words.
~ Julianna Baggott
We have to make sure the music and the message and the words and all the elements come through in our songs and every time we appear in public.
~ Lauryn Hill
We learn to treasure words that people call us; we learn to live by words that hurt. We cannot toss them aside, so in time they become our dignity.
~ Mark Doty
He did and said all the right things. Things that went straight to her heart, and worse, they inspired the one thing that she'd given up along time ago. Hope.
~ Maya Banks
Don't use a five-dollar word when a fifty-cent word will do.
~ Mark Twain
Words are only painted fire, a look is the fire itself. She gave that look, and carried it away to the treasury of heaven, where all things that are divine belong.
~ Mark Twain