Quotes About Words

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

Opinions are a useless currency

A writer's primary goal is to make sense. The bookstore's is to make cents.

Money is not only the motivating factor, most of the time powerful positive words do

It's better to be remembered for what you said, not what you earned.

Words are naught but wind, and the fairest promises like dreams that take flight with the morning.

Nay," cried Bingley, "this is too much, to remember at night all the foolish things that were said in the morning.

Language is the mother, not the handmaiden, of thought; words will tell you things you never thought or felt before.

Everything comes home, my mother used to say; every word spoken, every shadow cast, every footprint in the sand. It can't be helped; it's part of what makes us who we are.

I don't know if my mother was a narcissist - or bi-polar or borderline. Those were words she tossed around over the years.

Trying to impress my mother with words was one of my favourite pursuits.

While some mothers sing lullabies to their children, my mother read me poetry. And to this day, I associate my strongest and most insistent feelings with words lyrically organized on a page.

Words are powerful vibrations, use words to uplift your spirits and heal yourself.

Words are the only jewels I possess Words are the only clothes I wear Words are only the food that sustain my life Words are the only wealth I distribute among people.

Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.

The sacred words penetrate the heart.

Words become sentences, twisted, difficult/The story weaves itself, always noisiest at night/As herds of words won't stop. . . "Wildebeest of Words/Breathe In

It's not that music is too imprecise for words, but too precise.

When the words come, they are merely empty shells without the music. They live as they are sung, for the words are the body and the music the spirit.

I have always taken care to put an idea or emotion behind my words. I have made it a habit to be suspicious of the mere music of words.

The duty of the words is to say just as much as the music has left unsaid and no more.

Music is only love looking for words.

The best way to get rid of the Devil, if you cannot kill it with the words of Holy Scripture, is to rail at and mock him. Music, too, is very good; music is hateful to him, and drives him far away.

Kind words are the music of the world. They have a power which seems to be beyond natural causes, as if they were some angel's song which had lost its way and come to earth.