Quotes About Words

We have too many sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them.

Gossip needs no carriage.

Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.

Not a day passes over the earth, but men and women of no note do great deeds, speak great words and suffer noble sorrows.

A precedent embalms a principle.

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.

A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain, while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.

A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it.

I'm not trying to stump anybody... it's the beauty of the language that I'm interested in.

At the time, acid made me consider questions of reality, the difference, as someone said, between words and silence. It also brought back a lot of latent religious feelings in me that I had turned my back on.

A nation that turns it back on Christ and God's words of truth will inevitably regret it.

When there are just 500 fans inside a ground, you can hear everything they say, every little word that is getting said. So that is what turns you from a kid into a man.

Doing a TV show where it's a very relentless schedule, it does democratise you in a brilliant way. It does chip away at the old ego and you do realise that you're only really ever as good as the words that you're saying, the people you're talking to, or more importantly, listening to.

I'm not a native English speaker but do post tweets in English.

Actions speak a whole lot louder than President Trump's words and tweets.

He wants you to smile and smell sweet and be his lady love. He wants to hear you recite all your pretty little words the way the septa taught you. He wants you to love him... and fear him.

Fresh content doesn't exist to game the SEO system. It's the words, images, and stories that truly engage us, make us want to share with others, and creates a bond between us and a brand.

I ever said back when we had our choice words I still told everybody that I respected him. I wouldn't want to have to do [Joe Rogan] job and I don't know anybody else that could do his job.

Predictions can sound really good if you're good with words and can express them eloquently and give people ideas and inspiration in their head. But I'm not really good at that, so I don't want to.

Well, the secret to writing is writing. It's only a secret to people who don't want to hear it. Writing is how you be a writer.

One of the things about comics is people can linger on images and words as long as they want.

Men are idolaters, and want something to look at and kiss and hug, or throw themselves down before; they always did, they always will; and if you don't make it of wood, you must make it of words.

I didn't know how to say goodbye. Words were stupid. They said so little. Yet they opened up holes you could fall into and never climb out of again.

Which is better: to have fun with fungi or to have Idiocy with ideology, to have wars because of words, to have tomorrow's misdeeds out of yesterday's miscreeds?