Quotes About Words

That they will find each other during the play, once more, in the words of Shakespeare.

Mi gente sabe cómo luchar contra los mejores, pero con palabras, con montones de palabras.

Your presence can be soothing so long as what you say is soothing

Twenty-six letters and some punctuation marks and you have infinite words in infinite worlds. How is that not a miracle?

Is this how it is with lies? The first one comes hard, the second one easier, until they slip off your tongue easier than truths - maybe because they are easier than truths.

En cuántos idiomas te has manchado?

Like she's singing away her grief, because words are not sufficient. Mom, singing me to sleep. Hannah, singing to tell a story. Bev, singing away her panic attacks.

Wow, you know a lot of swear words," Sam commented at one point. "And here I thought I had a dirty mouth." "What can I say? Apparently candid porn starring my boyfriend brings out the best in me.

If words are the power of life and death, you just pointed a loaded gun at your head.

The words we speak are important, powerful, and since names are spoken every day, directed at specific individuals, people often become what they are called. I like to know who I'm dealing with.

Earlier Vale had said, "In the words of Gandalf, the battle for Helm's Deep is over. The battle for Middle Earth is about to begin." Knox had understood the gist.

Words are so easily spoken, as you've proven", the Deity had continued, "but so rarely are they backed up with action

As Emerson observes, "The etymologist finds the deadest word to have been once a brilliant picture. Language is fossil poetry."4

What were the requirements for using the Language? That the Librarian using it should be able to name and describe what they wanted to happen, and that the Librarian should have the strength to compel reality to change itself. And that the universe could hear her words.

The word, Irene, is stealing." "Oh, semantics. 'I acquire, 'you borrow,' 'she steals,' 'they invade and loot . . .

What is written can be erased, alas.

Soun ys noght but eyr ybroken,And every speche that ys spoken,Lowd or pryvee, foul or fair,In his substaunce ys but air.

Ek gret effect men write in place lite;Th' entente is al, and nat the lettres space.

I shouldn't need to remind you that it was words that created the universe and The Word that now holds it together. While your man was simply reading one little book, something not unlike Genesis was stirring in his skull, and you didn't think to stop it?

Just as there are polysyllabic words that say very little, so there are also monosyllabic words of infinite meaning.

En la naturaleza no hay palabras, solamente iniciales. Al releer las nuevas "palabras", descubrimos que no son sino iniciales de otras

Random search can be more efficient than nonrandom search—something that Good and Turing had discovered at Bletchley Park. A random network, whether of neurons, computers, words, or ideas, contains solutions, waiting to be discovered, to problems that need not be explicitly defined.

For no one's authority ought to rank so high as to set a value on his words and terms even though nothing clear and determinate lies behind them.

England and America are two countries separated by a common language.