Quotes About Words

Words are feminine; deeds are masculine.

Like stones, words are laborious and unforgiving, and the fitting of them together, like the fitting of stones, demands great patience and strength of purpose and particular skill.

The grossest thing in our gross national product today is our language. It is suffering from inflation.

Caesar had perished from the world of men Had not his sword been rescued by his pen.

Words and sentences are subjects of revision; paragraphs and whole compositions are subjects of prevision.

The tongue is not the sea but it can drown you.

They are little to be feared whose tongues are their swords.

They said 'ski', but they heard 'vodka'!

My books already threatened to take over my part of the room and keep on going . . . whatever cargoes of words I could lay my hands on I gave safe harbor.

Ja! - Teška rije?, koja u o?ima onih pred kojima je kazana odre?uje naše mjesto, kobno i nepromjenjivo, ?esto daleko ispred ili iza onog što mi o sebi znamo, izvan naše volje i izvan naših snaga. Strašna rije? koja nas, jednom izgovorena, zauvijek vezuje i poistovje?uje sa svim onim što smo zamislili i rekli i sa ?im nikad nismo ni pomišljali da se poistovjetimo, a u stvari smo, u sebi, ve? odavno jedno.

Bugünkü kuÅŸaklar daha çok hayatla deÄŸil de hayat üzerine görüÅŸleriyle meÅŸguldü. Bu anla??lmaz saçma bir ÅŸeydi ama böyle idi. Onun için de hayat deÄŸerini kaybediyor... kelimelerle harcan?p gidiyordu.

Like everyone else, I am going to die. But the words - the words live on for as long as there are readers to see them, audiences to hear them. It is immortality by proxy. It is not really a bad deal, all things considered.

Words have power. Names are power. Never give that shit away for free.

He showed me that words can do more than tell stories, they can heal, and as long as you live inside the dignity of what you write, no one can take that away that what matters most. Those who hate you can kill you, but they cannot destroy you or the ideals that matter to you. To be decent writer you had to give yourself over to the power of words and a love of storytelling. (203)

The thing was, Qhuinn felt like he wanted to explain things. Unfortunately, and unlike his slut cousin, Saxton the Cocksucker, he had no gift with words.

People, in my long experience, want to talk. They may believe they wish to keep secrets, and they may believe that they are capable of doing so. But the truth is that secrets exist to be revealed; and it is usually very easy to find the combination of words that will cause them to emerge.

She shrugged. "I could write a book of sayings that should actually be sayings if people didn't keep killing each other.

The masters of information have forgotten about poetry, where words may have a meaning quite different from what the lexicon says, where the metaphoric spark is always one jump ahead of the decoding function, where another, unforeseen reading is always possible.

Words are coin. Words alienate. Language is no medium for desire. Desire is rapture, not exchange. It is only by alienating the desired that language masters it. The frenzy of desire in the medium of words yields the mania of the catalogue. I struggle with the proverbs of hell.

Prose, in his experience, calls for many more words than poetry. There is no point in embarking on prose if one lacks confidence that one will be alive the next day to carry on with the task.

He tends to trust pictures more than he trusts words. Not because pictures cannot lie but because, once they leave the darkroom, they are fixed, immutable.

And you trust yourself to divine that, from the words I use - to divine whether it comes from my heart?

No tengo razones y no lo sigo. No tengo razones para nada. Tú eres el que tiene razones.

As you speak I swear I can hear words being selected, one after another, from the word-box you carry around with you, and slotted into place. That is not how a true native speak, one who is born into a language.' 'How does a native speak?' 'From the heart. Words well up within and he sings them, sings along with them. So to speak.