Quotes About Words

the streets of your glances have no ending the swallows from your eyes donot migrate south in the heaven of your words the sun doesnot set

A boomerang returns back to the person who throws it. But first, while moving in a circle, it hits its target. So does gossip.

Each letter of the alphabet is a steadfast loyal soldier in a great army of words, sentences, paragraphs, and stories. One letter falls, and the entire language falters.

Huh? Okay." I raise my brows. But the Consul stares back at me with unblinking disdain. "Your second lesson is never to use non-existent words or animalistic sounds worthy of a gurgling infant child in your adult communication.

Writing is architectural. Letters become words, and words become sentences, and sentences become paragraphs, and paragraphs become chapters and chapters become books.

In the deepest nights words left behind or asleep may find their connections. In scattered papers, who knows or forgets them? Someday perhaps they'll resonate—who knows?— in a few sympathetic hearts.

Hiding behind the mask of a quotation, using someone else's words to bolster our own softly blooming emotions.

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

Be it true or false, what is said about men often has as much influence on their lives, and especially on their destinies, as what they do.

Woorden kunnen nietige stukjes arsenicum zijn: ze worden ongemerkt ingeslikt en lijken geen uitwerking te hebben, maar na enige tijd is de gifwerking er toch.

Sometimes all I have are words and to write them means they are no longer prayers but are now animals. Other people can hunt them.

Words can be said but it's the attitude that defines their value. Attitude is the anchor of every word we say or everything we do.

The beauty of the written word is that it can be held close to the heart and read over and over again.

Let no man value at a little price A virtuous woman's counsel; her winged spirit Is feathered often times with heavenly words, And, like her beauty, ravishing and pure.

Dinted dimpled wimpled-his mind wandered down echoing corridors of assonance and alliteration ever further and further from the point. He was enamoured with the beauty of words.

There is a truth and beauty in rhetoric; but it oftener serves ill turns than good ones.

The power of a king lies in his mighty arms; that of a brahmana in his spiritual knowledge; and that of a woman in her beauty youth and sweet words.

Writing well is the best revenge.

Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.

The best advice on writing I've ever received was from William Zinsser: 'Be grateful for every word you can cut.'

Words are easy to say, but emotions betray the best intentions.

Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

Grammar is what gives sense to language .... sentences make words yield up their meaning. Sentences actively create sense in language. And the business of the study of sentences is grammar.

Every form of power comes down to language. In law, there's all kinds of words you don't know if you're not a lawyer and that gives them power. In business, it's the same thing.