Quotes About Words

In the 1960 campaign, Arthur Schlesinger wrote of Adlai Stevenson, who already lost twice as the party's presidential nominee, He has been away from power too long; he gives me an odd sense of unreality, a certain frivolity, distractedness, over-interest in words and phrases.

Well, that's a hell of a reason to poison yourself.

The next summer we went to France for six weeks, and I added another 420 words, most of them found in the popular gossip magazine, 'Voici'. "Man-eater", I'd say. "Gold digger, roustabout, louse". "Who are you talking about?" my neighbors would ask. "What social climber? Where?

If you're looking for sympathy you can find it between shit and syphilis in the dictionary.

he would have repeatedly encountered irresistible words such as "freedom," "liberty," "tyranny," and the "rights of man." 19 Well before he read any serious history, he garnered and cherished a vocabulary of liberation.

The problem of the twenty-first century is still some agonizingly enduring combination of legacies bleeding forward from slavery and color lines. Freedom in its infinite meanings remains humanity's most universal aspiration. Douglass's life, and especially his words, may forever serve as our watch-warnings in our unending search for the beautiful, needful thing.

Philip's words. Though the story was by now well known to him, still it held a powerful resonance. What he saw and heard was not merely a retelling of the Lord's coming, but rather the fulfillment of words written centuries before by their most revered prophet.

Words are the wellspring of the world, and language is the most powerful weapon in the ancient and still unfolding war between truth and lies.

Don't ever call me adorable again. Puppies are adorable.

Nothing can be imagined, nothing can be visualized in our minds, until we have a word for it. Therefore, when I give myself to the free flow of any words that trip off my tongue without predetermination, I am tapping into the primal creative power at the heart of the cosmos. Or maybe I'm just a bullshit artist.

She was afraid to touch the dictionary — Oki was even there. Innumerable words reminded her of him. To link whatever she saw and heard with her love was nothing less than to be alive. Her awareness of her body was inseparable from her memory of his embrace.

And as we stray further from love we multiply the words, words and sentences so long and orderly. Had we remained together we could have become a silence.

It was in the shady groves of dictionaries that Jack fell in love.

if often telling makes it true.

You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a life.

They made burning statements with questions, and killing tools out of laughs. It was mass cruelty. A mood come alive. Words walking without master; walking altogether like harmony in a song. - Their Eyes Were Watching God

Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.

They made burning statements with questions, and killing tools out of laughs. It was mass cruelty. A mood come alive. Words walking without master...

There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight.Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still a gulf of formless feelings untouched by thought.

There is a basin in the mind where words float around on thought and thought on sound and sight. Then there is a depth of thought untouched by words, and deeper still gulf of formless feeling untouched by thought

A lot of people say actions are stronger than words, and I think, in acting, this is a very accurate thing.

I've always loved acoustic music because I've always loved to hear someone's words or just watch them and just get into them. The distancing thing about rock is it's so assaulting.

I have a writing addiction.

When you create advertising, always start with the words.