Quotes About Words

A lot of people use the dictionary to find out how to spell words.

I always loved reading. I always was the spelling bee champion. I always loved words. I always wanted to know what they meant, why you used them, who first said them. I was always interested in that.

As someone who gets nervous in silences, I spill words rather than really think.

News, after all, is a spin of words and pictures. It's a kind of music. There are beats in a newscast, a newspaper story. Ed Murrow sounded like Ed Murrow. Huntley and Brinkley sounded different. Anderson Cooper, different still.

Writing is so much about rhythm. If you've got another rhythm in the room, it spoils the rhythm of the words.

When my father spoke, it was to say something meaningful.

I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.

That which I have set out in Latin is not my words but the words of God and of apostles and prophets, who of course have never lied. He who believes shall be saved, but he who does not believe shall be damned. God has spoken.

Words that are carefully framed and spoken are the most powerful means of communication there is.

Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists.

Real spiritual authority has to do with the truth of the actual words being spoken, and the spirit of the person behind the words. Really, authority is about truth: honest-living truth.

Spoken language's elaborate rhythms and inflections convey more meaning per word than the printed word.

It's kind of like an out of body experience, watching my words being spoken by the actors, watching the portrayal of me by John David Washington.

'I am' is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that 'I do' is the longest sentence?

Men are apt to be much more influenced by words than by the actual facts of the surrounding reality

Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's souls, and a beautiful image it is.

Other famous men, those of much talk and few deeds, soon evaporate. Action is the dignity of greatness.

Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells. Those who think and those who create with words are the guardians of this home.

Man can change his conditions by changing his words.

The man who offers an insult writes it in sand, but for the man who receives it, it's chiseled in bronze.

However stupid a fools words may be, they are sometimes enough to confound an intelligent man.

All men know the use of the useful, but nobody knows the use of the useless. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so that I can have a word with him?

What is left of your dream? Just the words on your stone. A man who learned how to teach then forgot how to learn.

The tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.