Quotes About Words

A word out of season may mar a whole lifetime.

Order my life. I'm nothing without you: fragments of time, fragments of words, fragments of feelings. Make sense of me. Make me whole.

Our words-backed with action-have the power to heal.

Her touch was as knowing and confident as her eyes, and as she focused all her attention upon me, I remembered that there is nothing so thrilling as a woman of words when she decides that the time for words is past.

Emotions are by nature amorphous. When confined to words, our longings and passions, our rebellions and humiliations often seem melodramatic, trivial, or even pathetic.

The United States is not a nation to which peace is a necessity.

La cultura ayuda a un pueblo a luchar con las palabras antes que con las armas

En poésie nous avons des droits sur les paroles qui forment et défont l'Univers.

Quelquefois l'avenir habite en nous sans que nous le sachions, et nos paroles qui croient mentir dessinent une réalité prochaine.

In the end, Pep won most of the doubters over with a clever ploy, a few well-chosen words and a single bold decision.

Esa sería su venganza. Una obra magna creada desde el agujero negro. Un monumento de amor construido con palabras. Un edificio erigido de la nada cuyos planos diseñaría en un braille cerebral. La literatura, una balsa salvadora en el gigantesco y oscuro océano de un metro treinta por un metro. Se

When she opened the book, the white pages were so bright against the shadows that filled the forest and the words they offered granted shelter and comfort. The letters were like footprints in the snow, a wide white landscape untouched by pain, unharmed by memories too dark to keep, too sweet to let go of.

Los imitadores olvidan el ser o no ser del trágico eminente, y al hacerlo caen en ese abismo sin fondo de que nos habla el creador de Hamlet: ¡Palabras, palabras, palabras!

Por los tenebrosos rincones de mi cerebro, acurrucados y desnudos, duermen los extravagantes hijos de mi fantasía, esperando en silencio que el arte los vista de la palabra para poderse presentar decentes en la escena del mundo.

Ho didn't know how prescient those words were, as they fundamentally changed the course of Mexican food in the United States for like the thirtieth time ever.

Soms valt het woord als een sneeuwvlok, Soms valt het woord als een steen, Zodat iedereen zegt: stil, daar valt een woord.

Tal vez así mueren los poetas: cuando las palabras se agotan.

Music was what filled the Range Rover as we drove off, although it was hardly what I recognize as music. Somebody who couldn't sing was shouting words I couldn't hear against a noise I didn't like.

Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.

fluent speech, there are no real spaces between words, so when two words frequently appear together they can easily fuse into one.

people find names for things they feel the need to talk about.

Much of a language's complexity is not necessarily for effective communication.

In German, a young lady has no sex, while a turnip has.

word that is not actively used by one generation will not be heard by the next generation and will then be lost forever.