Quotes About Words

And even though these words are moving into you through a visual medium—the printed words on this page—as you became immersed in this book, you no longer saw the words as a visual input. You'd left that surface orientation behind. You began, then, to work with, and experience, the meanings that these words are only the containers for.

Alas, words were but empty things, devoid of power and all too easily broken, discarded, and forgotten.

Remember that in the end, the universe responds to our emotions, not to our words.

If you want to surpass the stages of doubt and secure better communication between your inner and outer body it is wise to surpass the challenge of the words 'if only'.

When you use positive words it naturally has a very dynamic effect on the energy present around you.

Start to use the Law of Attraction as it was originally intended all of those thousands of years ago today by just using simple, positive words in your NAPS without the woo-woo!

Have something to say and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret of style.

Boy, those French! They have a different word for everything.

Being a good television screenwriter requires an understanding of the way film accelerates the communication of words.

Have you never understood more than you could put into words? Many people only have their slogans--but they respond because the slogans are true and touch a spark in their hearts and their lives. And as for the ones who don't want to think for themselves, we teach them to anyway.

The proof that these words marked the event… is the very fact that no other words have ever been recorded; and it is well known that 'historians' of the popular school dearly love to mark great events by the words which accompanied them. What reason would they have for ignoring words to mark the occasion except that these words fail, in their judgment, to convey the proper sense of the occasion?

Writing is a labor-intensive task.

Words are the weapons used by those who see others with contempt. A contempt which only deepens when they see how those others are deceived and made into fools because they chose to believe. Because in their naivety they thought the meaning of a word was fixed, immune to abuse.

I have always loved the fluidity of language - delighting in dialects, dictionaries, slang and neologisms.

The British have slang words, as we do, but it was fun.

The best way to show an emotion is not through a character's words, but their smallest expressions - to take what an actor would visually do and try putting that down on the page for the reader to 'see.'

In America right now, we use words like 'smart' to talk about bombs. American rhetoric is grounded in ideas of capital-G Good, capital-E Evil, and it's very clear who is on which side. But in a book you can do just the opposite. You can use all lower-case words.

With Dick Smith there, and the words of Peter Shaffer... they've got to be the most beautiful descriptions in music ever written on film or in literature. And we could hear the music accompanying the words... What more can you ask for?

I think my love for rhythm in language comes from repeating the same words, the same sounds, over and over again day after day for so many years.

By giving words the latitude she does, (Marianne) Van Hirtum emphasizes their contagious qualities: they become almost like viruses, with which it is necessary to put oneself in harmony by sympathetic magic if one is not to be overwhelmed. ... What is essential is to become one with the sickness, that is, in the context of language as a whole, to enter into contact with words.

Some sorrows were not open to outside intervention or comfort. Just as some brotherhoods were beyond the reckoning of people outside of them. Some tragedies couldn't be made okay, not by words, and not by anything else either.

If I can, I will prevent my death from saying anything not first said by my life.

I love to discourse and dispute, but it is with but few men, and for myself; for to do it as a spectacle and entertainment to great persons, and to make of a man's wit and words competitive parade is, in my opinion, very unbecoming a man of honor.

What can we do now? How many words are left with Ds in it? Not many, I bet. Probably al the best ones have already been ruined.' .. .. 'And if I ever find my dad, what will he be? Just a sound. A sound without any meaning.' p 208