Quotes About Words

The words with which a child's heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner or later they burn his soul.

Within all things, all living beings, the words of the gods lie hidden, awaiting revelation.

Quién puede entender los mil hilos que unen las almas de los hombres y el alcance de sus palabras?

The next time you face a skeptical audience, paint a picture of the villain before you introduce your product or service—the conquering hero. The villain/hero narrative simplifies the problem your idea solves and, if you use simple words, you might be surprised at just how quickly your idea catches on.

Moving On Up As soon as you move one step up from the bottom, your effectiveness depends on your ability to reach others through the spoken and written word. 5

Many people believe that if they use big words—capacious, voluminous, consequential language—others will find their use of such words to be a sign of intelligence. The exact opposite is true. If you want to sound smart and confident, replace big words with small ones. Big words don't impress people; big words frustrate people.

Churchill proved that one person can make a difference. One person can save a civilization. But no person has a chance to persuade the greatest number of people if they cannot explain their ideas with short, well-chosen words.

A whole wall was crimson, gold, aglow with books Words, words were truly alive on the tongue, in the head Warm, beating, frantic, winged; music and blood.

I start sentences with ands and buts. I end sentences with prepositions.

Gossip is mischievous, light and easy to raise, but grievous to bear and hard to get rid of. No gossip ever dies away entirely, if many people voice it: it too is a kind of divinity." Hesiod, Works and Days

I believe in books.

It is my destiny to know people who abuse punctuation.

Do you ever notice how many words we waste?

French neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene has found that the less accurate, "there or thereabouts" bits of math processing uses visual and spatial brain areas, whereas the exact stuff requires the same areas as language processing.2 So to some extent, being a words person and a numbers person are kind of the same thing.

It's only four pages, five days a week. It won't kill you. You can't "fall behind" and you can't "get ahead." Every day is a new one thousand words.

Actions lie louder than words.

If you don't believe something, then don't say it. Saying it only gives it power. ~Betty White

One must always be careful of books and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.

One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.

That does it," said Jace. "I'm going to get you a dictionary for Christmas this year." "Why?" Isabelle said. "So you can look up 'fun.' I'm not sure you know what it means.

I've got a stele we can use. Who wants to do me?" "A regrettable choice of words," muttered Magnus.

It's fascinating. You know all these words, and they're all English, but when you string them together into sentences, they just don't make any sense.

We live and breathe words. It was books that kept me from taking my own life after I thought I could never love anyone, never be loved again. It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them.

I have not loved the world, nor the world me, but let us part fair foes; I do believe, though I have found them not, that there may be words which are things, hopes which will not deceive, and virtues which are merciful, or weave snares for the failing: I would also deem o'er others' griefs that some sincerely grieve; that two, or one, are almost what they seem, that goodness is no name, and happiness no dream.