Quotes About Words

el extraño poder curativo de las palabras, de compartir el dolor y comprobar que otros también tienen su

She knew the strange healing power words had from what she had written and discussed concerning her brother Enrique's fate—how important it was to share one's pain and discover that others too had their fair share of it, that lives are often alike and feelings similar.

Yo escribía cada día un nuevo episodio, inmersa por completo en el mundo que creaba con el poder omnímodo de las palabras, transformada en un ser disperso, reproducida hasta el infinito, viendo mi propio reflejo en múltiples espejos, viviendo innumerables vidas, hablando con muchas voces.

One of my main techniques for acting is I try to know almost nothing beyond the words that I have to say, because that's my zone of control.

Theatre is simply what cannot be expressed by any other means; a complexity of words, movements, gestures that convey a vision of the world inexpressible in any other way.

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Life happens at the level of events, not words.

The responsibility of a dictionary is to record a language, not set its style.

The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.

A dictionary should be descriptive, not prescriptive.

The first book of the nation is the dictionary of its language.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

Speech is civilization itself.

A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

His words leap across rivers and mountains, but his thoughts are still only six inches long.

The cowardly dog barks more violently than it bites.

One of the disadvantages of wine is that is makes a man mistake words for thoughts.

Actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

Words are mere bubbles of water, but deeds are drops of gold.

Action, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.

If deeds are wanting, all words appear mere vanity and emptiness.

Talking is easy, action difficult.

One's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into action ... which bring results.