Quotes About Words

The writing is really important in books that affect me. I read for the writing. The story is usually of less interest to me. It's the words that break your heart.

In the afternoon, it's impossible to put down any new words. I don't even try.

I know a lot about words. I get paid to write stories, so I get to talk with people about the meaning behind words all day.

We have all said things in anger in a moment that we don't mean.

The Smiths did that well, putting words in pop songs you wouldn't hear anywhere else.

they said, as the soldiers and the dressers said, the perfunctory words, "Have patience! a little courage! What's the good of grieving? Suppose you kill yourself, what then? One gets accustomed to everything; be reasonable!

The bourgeois is born so; words are coins which he takes and passes without question. For a word, he will excite himself or calm down, insult or applaud. With a word, he can be brought to make a revolution and overturn a government of his own choice.

shall succeed!" he said to himself. So says the gambler; so says the great captain; but the three words that have been the salvation of some few, have been the ruin of many more.

SOCIETY PRACTISES NONE of the virtues it demands from individuals: every hour it commits crimes, but the crimes are committed in words; it paves the way for evil actions with a jest; it degrades nobility of soul by ridicule;

Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.

Wörter meine Fallschirme mit euch springe ich ab Ich fürchte nicht die Tiefe wer euch richtig öffnet schwebt

David Young, in his excellent book The Discovery of Evolution, strikes just the right note of balance in our interpretation of science; his words can serve as a coda for this chapter:

History shows that silence is unforgivable, for it gives bigotry license. And when meek words masquerade as moral courage, they are perceived as indifference and give the worst of human nature permission to flourish.

Then it is not uncommon for a man to become lost in a single letter, or hear a voice rise up from the silent page.

For the words of a vow are sacred not only among men and the angels, but among the demons as well.

Wise Penelope! That's was Odysseus said to his wife when he got home. I don't think he ever told her he loved her. He probably knew the words would sound too small.

It is my belief that there are "absolutes" in our Bill of Rights, and that they were put there on purpose by men who knew what the words meant and meant their prohibitions to be "absolutes."

It is my belief that there are"absolutes" in our Bill of Rights, and that they were put there on purpose by men who knew what words meant and meant their prohibitions to be "absolutes."

So las ich falsch in deinem Aug, dem tiefen? Kein heimlich Sehnen sah ich heiß dort funkeln? Es birgt zu deiner Seele keine Pforte Dein feuchter Blick? Die Wünsche, die dort schliefen, Wie stille Rosen in der Flut, der dunkeln, Sind, wie dein Plaudern: seellos... Worte, Worte?

La escritura es un pequeño equívoco sin importancia, tan pequeño que nos hace casi mudos

Truth has nothing to do with words. Truth can be likened to the bright moon in the sky. Words, in this case, can be likened to a finger. The finger can point to the moon's location. However, the finger is not the moon. To look at the moon, it is necessary to gaze beyond the finger.

I am a poet in deeds--not often in words.

You may regret your silence once, but you will regret your words often.

The difference between the right word and the nearly right word is the same as that between lightning and the lightning bug.