Quotes About Words

I find my voice and manage to say those three one-syllable words back to him. Words I haven't uttered in a very, very long time. Words that meant nothing before now.

The proof of battle is action, proof of words, debate. No time for speeches now, it's time to fight.

Then I went to bed and cried into my pillow. I wasn't sad, not at all. It was just so beautiful to have an intense feeling and the right words at the same time. What are we but our stories?

The written word has this advantage, that it lasts and can await the time when it is allowed to take effect.

I'm dreading the time that is not near As a man on a cross I have no fear I can't believe these words I'm saying You've got to feel your lines

Everything you have said will not matter anymore one day, only those things that you never said will always haunt you and strangle you every time you see your world in someone else's hand.

Neither of us had anything to say, or rather we had everything to say, but after all those nights of not saying a word, we suddenly found we had not one dollar of time left between us.

I love to compare different time frames. Poetry can evoke the time of the subject. By a very careful choice of words you can evoke an era, completely throw the poem into a different time scale.

The pen is mightier than the sword, but the tongue is mightier than them both put together.

Poetry is ordinary language raised to the Nth power. Poetry is boned with ideas, nerved and blooded with emotions, all held together by the delicate, tough skin of words.

But when you get music and words together, that can be a very powerful thing.

I was blessed with the talent. God gave me the gift to put words together and make popular songs.

Words can break someone into a million pieces, but they can also put them back together

Poetry has its own laws speaking for the life of the planet. It is a language that wants to bring back together what the other words have torn apart.

Rehearsals and this band are two words that don't really go together, kinda like Military Intelligence.

And as we stray further from love, we multiply the words. Had we remained together we could have become a silence.

When putting words together is good to do it with nicety and caution, your elegance and talent will be evident if by putting ordinary words together you create a new voice.

Our lives are made of these moments. Simple words and actions, taken together, weave a single day, and our days become our life. Every gesture is a seed, and the seed determines the harvest.

It's always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.

For me, reading books and writing them are tied together. The words of other writers teach me and refresh me and inspire me.

When they tell me things I wish to hear, I invariably believe them.

The foolish words kept spilling from his mouth, though they seemed to have come from nowhere.

Take my advice - it is that of your friend, he said, as he swung himself into the saddle. He gathered up the reins and struck spurs into his horse, then turned to call back to me: Sleep upon my words, Ralph, and the next time I come I look to see a farthingale behind thee! Thou art as like to see one upon me, I answered.

The words and sentences you take into your body from books are no less sacred and healing than communion. Surely at least one such person lives in your zip code.