Quotes About Words

I think I feel in love with words before I feel in love with music.

I feel sublime Then I lose ground Tripping on words That have no sound of love

I love words but I don't like strange ones. You don't understand them and they don't understand you. Old words is like old friends, you know 'em the minute you see 'em.

What's interesting about songs where the writer is genuinely in love with words is that it's easy to read the lyrics like a poem.

I was learning book-keeping at the age of 12, but it never stopped me from pursuing literature. Over the years, I grew to love the written word.

Everything had come into sharp focus : his smooth words, his black, glinting eyes, his broad experience with lies, seduction, women. I'd fallen in love with the devil.

You always find the right quote, or the right thing to say to make me believe you love me.

I cannot tell and I shall never know how many words of mine might have given birth to cruelty in place of love and kindness and charity.

So my son is very curious, which is fantastic. He loves school. So I don't have to encourage him too much, but I love to do it because I know it's meaningful and words are powerful.

Before I fellin love with words, with setting skies and singing birds—it was you I fellin love with first.

Nothing is expensive when you promise.

The value of ones heart is in the reminders of what fills it, words may sustain for a while but actions will always be the hope

A poem begins as an inner tune in the heart that beats with emotions and words waiting to be played with love.

True Love never needs the Expression of Words, It Speaks the Language Blessed by God and when it speaks, Only Miracles Happen.

There was something diabolically sweet in her tones—something of the tingling of glass when struck—which rang through the brains even of us who heard the words addressed to another.

My father once admonished me to master the laws that govern fine writing until I could weave my words into worlds. If ever I accomplish that feat, I will sign my name to the tale.

A man with a brave tongue should support his words with courageous actions.

did it ever occur to whoever wrote that stupid adage that hurtful words might be a pretty good indication that sticks and stones are on the way?

her taste in music haunted my memory and I had to stop at Tower Records on the Upper West Side to buy ninety dollars' worth of rap CDs but, as expected, I'm at a loss: [...] voices uttering ugly words like digit, pudding, chunk.

Above one of the doors covered by red velvet drapes in Harry's is a sign and on the sign in letters that match the drapes' color are the words THIS IS NOT AN EXIT.

The lyricist Yip Harburg, author of many classics including "Over the Rainbow," said it simply: "Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. But a song makes you feel a thought."22 Feel a thought. For me, that captures the essence of artistic truth.

Written words, if carefully laid down, represent the civilized ideal of reason.

The narrow mind erects stubborn barriers, her mother had once told her. But against those barriers, words are formidable weapons.

The narrow mind erects stubborn barriers," her mother had once told her. "But against those barriers, words are formidable weapons.