Quotes About Words

What I wanted to do was slap him down a bit with wit and words. Grammar and vocabulary as a weapon. But what kind of world would it be if we all took every opportunity presented to us to assault the weak?

Words, when they've been captured and imprisoned on paper, become a barrier against the world, one best left unerected. Everything that happens is fluid, changeable. After they've passed, events are only as your memory makes them, and they shift shapes over time. Writing a thing down fixes it in place as surely as a rattlesnake skin strippd from the meat and stretched and tacked to a barn wall. Every bit as stationary, and every bit as false to the original thing. Flat and still and harmless.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but if you want to hurt someone...way down deep, use words.

Escribe tus críticas en la arena, y tus cumplidos en el mármol».

In our tongue we would say alfär.

Simon and Garfunkel sang, back in the 1960's, in these days "the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls.")

His voice dropped the words like icy pebbles into the stream of her mind...

COLD WORDS FREEZE PEOPLE, AND HOT WORDS SCORCH THEM, AND BITTER WORDS MAKE THEM BITTER, AND WRATHFUL WORDS MAKE THEM WRATHFUL. KIND WORDS . . . SOOTHE, QUIET, AND COMFORT THE HEARER. Blaise Pascal (1623-1662)

HEAVENLY FATHER, please give me the right words to speak, words that will satisfy the soul of every listener. Let my words encourage and not discourage those who hear me speak. Help my tongue to nourish life and not to kill. And perhaps most important of all, help me to encourage others to be encouragers.

A coward may cover the ground with his words but when the time comes to fight he runs away.

I saw something I hadn't realized before: words wasted energy. I would use my strength instead to nurture my belief that my life would unfurl uniquely.

Stories, after all, are merely memories given a certain tangibility with words, and it only takes a few words to subsume a memory completely.

But there are some things you can't do even if you desire them. There are some choices you can't take back. Words said that can't be unsaid

The war began with words, but none of us paid any attention.' - Seka Milanovik

The coach is a human being and does not demand miracles from human beings. He has the humility to understand that there are other people with different ideas to his own, but he does not have to use those words.

The winged words uttered in this House have gone forth to the world, on their mission of good or of evil.

It is a misuse of words if you say 'content censorship'. But no censorship does not mean there is no management.

James Brown came from that hard, rough life that I came from. He took the blues and added rhythm to it. And he always had the most funkiest band; I liked the way he took his words and mixed it in with the band.

Theatre is highly satisfying in terms of words. You get to speak in monologues; words drive the action.

More than anything, acting was more like a confidence thing. I love words - I love English - but I don't have a hugely academic brain, so I enjoyed it because it was a bit of a respite. I don't think I really had a sense I would actually be a musician or an actor; I just wanted to be around that.

Words have been the most difficult thing for me. Melodies have been the easiest for me; I have more than enough melodies to go around.

What fascinated me mostly about Mickey Cohen was that he, in his later years, hired someone to help him to comprehend literature, to help him to read better, to understand words better.

The coach told me that he has a lot of respect for me, and I am a player who has the ability to do anything I like - to score with both feet, to head well and to pass. To hear such words from a man like Voller gives me a lot of confidence and motivation.

The gift of clever phrasing may be a curse unless the phrases are put to the test of sound, practical application before being uttered.