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Quotes About Words

Because I spend so much time traveling, I tend to do most of my reading on the same iPad on which I write. For me, it's words, not paper, that matter most in the end. This practice has had the additional benefit of greatly reducing the time I spend storming through the house, defaming the mysterious forces who 'hid my book.'
~ Scott Turow
I get so much inspiration from my travels, but I also started an exercise where I write down so many words every week. Then I begin crossing them off. We create a grid of words and also images, but words for me are more ample because you can interpret them your own way.
~ Francisco Costa
Do thou snatch treasures from my lips, and I'll take kingdoms back from thine.
~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
We treasure the word of God not only by reading the words of the scriptures, but by studying them. We may be nourished more by pondering a few words, allowing the Holy Ghost to make them treasures to us, than to pass quickly and superficially over whole chapters of scripture.
~ Henry B. Eyring
'Words and Music' on Radio 3 is always a treat. Actors read passages of poetry and prose interspersed with music, and nobody tells you what it is. Later you can look it up online, but at the time you can't cheat.
~ Claire Tomalin
Public intellectuals are often put in the position of having their words, no matter how off-the-cuff, treated as doctrine.
~ Roxane Gay
I love arranging the words and having them fall on the ear the right way, and you know you're not quite there, and you're redoing it and redoing it, and there's a wonderful thrill to it. But it is hard. It's a job of tremendous anxiety for me.
~ Elizabeth Strout
From my teenage years on, I sought out Native elders from many tribal nations and listened to their words. I also started a small press, The Greenfield Review Press, and became very involved with publishing the work of other American Indian authors, especially books of poetry.
~ Joseph Bruchac
Why should I struggle through hundreds of pages of fabrication to reach half a dozen very little truths?''For fun?''Fun!' He pounced on the word. 'Words are for truth. For facts. Not fiction.
~ John Fowles, The Magus
Think about it this way--our actions speak truth our words cannot.
~ Na, I'll Be Seeing You
Smartass Disciple: What were said for things before the time exist?Master of Stupidity: No words to be said by no man at no time at all.
~ Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
The truth of the gospel is the true words of God.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
If the saints fails to declare the truth, the Holy Spirit shall teach true words of God.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Your words don't match your vibe, & im trusting my gut this time.
~ Nikki Rowe
Our speech is poor interpretation of our perception.
~ Debasish Mridha
Music expresses those thoughts and words, which have no form but have longing for love.
~ Debasish Mridha
People are going to break promises, and they will have every right to till the point you realize that you don't change plans based on someone else's words.
~ Sanhita Baruah
There are certain truths that occurs to us, which we cannot convey in words, but requires a personal experience to grasp more vividly.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
They don't directly listen to you.They just hear things within their minds that triggered by your words.
~ Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
Ask of your eyes to seeonly to seek love.Ask of your mouth to speakonly to utter words of love.Ask of your hands to feelif only to touch the lover.
~ Kamand Kojouri
War of words. We are influenced by the western media. But is what we hear the truth or just PR campaigns for governments?
~ Anne-Rae Vasquez, Doubt
I'm very gullible when it comes to my own words. I believe everything I say, though I know I am a liar.
~ Roger Zelazny, Lord of Light
Be Mindful of your thoughts. Your thoughts become your words. Your words become your actions. Your actions become your reality.
~ Kemi Sogunle
A movie that gets closer to the life's reality of the society finds always more words of mouth publicity in entirety.
~ Testy McTesterson