Quotes About Words

Acho que não estou pronta para aprender como se escreve. Pensar com palavras, não com ideias.

I'm often asked if there is something I think writers ought to do, and recently in an interview I heard myself say: "Several things. Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world." Needless to say, no sooner had these perky phrases fallen out of my mouth than I thought of some more recipes for writer's virtue. For instance: "Be serious." By which I meant: Never be cynical. And which doesn't preclude being funny.

As the old advertising slogan of Paris Match, founded in 1949, had it: "The weight of words, the shock of photos." The hunt for more dramatic (as they're often described) images drives the photographic enterprise, and is part of the normality of a culture in which shock has become a leading stimulus of consumption and source of value.

The heaviness of forgiveness descended the moment after I wrote the words.

I am a Book," said Vinculus, stopping in mid-caper. "I am the Book. It is the task of the Book to bear the words. Which I do. It is the task of the Reader to know what they say.

Which demomstrates the sad poverty of English launguage...

Alan Grant: "There are... far too many words written. Millions and millions of them pouring from the presses every minute. It's a horrible thought." The Midget (his nurse): "You sound constipated.

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.

I turned back to the television. After a while what I was staring at registered. "Hey, this is The Long Goodbye ." Jake opened his eyes. "What?" "This movie. It's Robert Altman's take on Chandler's The Long Goodbye . 'Nothing says good-bye like a bullet.'" "I don't know," said Jake. "Sometimes the words are enough.

oh that's right, you never lie unless your mouth is open and words are coming out of it

You're saying things you can't take back. And you don't even mean them.

I did not foresee my words becoming such a reverie of mimic and refrain.

Home almost, at least where words cut your lip & I spoke you together & then back apart.

Speech has, indeed, its origin in social conformity.

Words at night were feral things.

Silence was a thing entrusted to the animals, the girl thought. Many things that human words have harmed are restored again by the silence of animals

I am out listening for the words, for the breath of my ancestors

Porque lo que las palabras lastiman, a veces solo el silencio arregla.

su vida no se puede contabilizar sólo por los minutos que le restan, sino por las palabras no dichas.

Porque lo que las palabras lastiman, a veces sólo el silencio arregla.

Los cambios del mundo moderno también tenían que llegar, por fin, a la justicia. ¿Qué es eso de que una, dos o tres personas interpreten una ley y redacten una sentencia? Palabras y más palabras. Yo no siento que se me haya hecho justicia. Solo yo sé qué castigo me puede satisfacer.

Oía de vez en cuando el sonido de las palabras, y notaba la diferencia. Porque las palabras que había oído hasta entonces, hasta entonces lo supe, no tenían ningún sonido, no sonaban; se sentían; pero sin sonido, como las que se oyen durante los sueños.

Communication through interaction is less about the words spoken than it is about the interaction dynamics that take place at the nonverbal level; it is at this level that trust is established—or not.