Quotes About Words

[Poetry] was a form of incantation, a means of welding the world inside his head to the one that surrounded him, words the fiery chain that bound it all together.

Calligraphy is an art form that uses ink and a brush to express the very souls of words on paper.

Rap in its form is poetry, meaning the point of convergence is words.

Words mean nothingActions are everythingExpect nothingAppreciate everything

I've never thought of writing as the mere arrangement of words on the page but the attempted embodiment of a vision

Words may be false and full of art Sighs are the natural language of the heart.

Attitude and the spirit in which we communicate are as important as the words we say.

The use of words by human agents to form attitudes or induce actionsin other human agents.

Our focus must be on what we need to change about ourselves-our attitudes, our words, our actions-even if our circumstances and the other people in our lives remain the same.

Our words reveal our heart, our actions reveal our soul.

What you believe to be the truth directly determines your attitude towards yourself and the world, the words you say and the actions you take.

It's your thoughts behind the words you speak that create your attitude.

No matter what verbal space you try to enclose Zen in, it resists, and spills over... the Zen attitude is that words and truth are incompatible, or at least that no words can capture truth.

One might say that our words are a movie screen that reveals what we have been thinking and the attitudes we have.

agreement of body with inertia agreement with emptiness weightlessness of time rest on the ground recovered earth -- it crumbles -- it melts -- words penetrating the ground -- it dissolves -- loss of possessions -- loss of power -- like dead the buried text

His nervous eyes watched me above his words, apologizing for the ways the excuses weren't right even as he couldn't stop presenting them.

You know your problem?" I snap at Shark. "You use too many metaphors. Ants, fish, and rabbits, all in the same breath. That's an abuse of the language." Shark smiles. "I never

Don't you wish you had a job like mine? All you have to do is think up a certain number of words! Plus, you can repeat words! And they don't even have to be true!

The word aerobics comes from two Greek words: aero, meaning "ability to," and bics, meaning "withstand tremendous boredom

Words are too easy," he says. He opens his book. "What looks like truth and sounds like truth might be nothing but a dream, nothing but a story I wish had happened.

He would beat the shit out of me for the slightest thing. But it wasn't the fist or the belt that hurt the most." "It was the words," said Reel.

I believe the stars are the headlights of angels driving from heaven to save us to save us...Won't you look at the sky? They're driving from heaven into our eyes. And though final words are so hard to devise, I promise that I'll always remember your pretty eyes.

Alex felt the words wash over him. He had the strange fantasy the things were seeking places within him to lay their young.

Some molecules were stable. . . . These became letters in a new alphabet. They, too, reacted to form still larger clusters, a few of which survived and accrued. . . . the first genetic words.