Quotes About Words

Life is fleeting and full of sorrow and no words can prevent the brave and the beautiful from dying or annihilate a grief. What poetry can do is transform the real world into an imaginary one which is godlike in its permanence and beauty, providing a picture of life which is worthy of imitation as far as it is possible.

England,' 'La France,' 'Das Reich;' their words Are like the names of extinct birds Or peasant-women's quaint old charms For bringing lovers to their arms, Which would be only pretty save That they bring thousands to their grave.

We inhabit a world so inundated with composite pictorial-verbal forms [...] and with the technology for the rapid, cheap production of words and images that nature itself threatens to become what it was in the Middle Ages: an encyclopedic illuminated book overlaid with ornamentation and marginal glosses, every object converted into an image with its proper label or signature

where will the meanings be when the words are forgotten will I see again where you are

I know how words are, how they go everywhere, one hint is enough. They talk of love, what do they know? We have the morsel and the knife.

Utterance" Sitting over words Very late I have heard a kind of whispered sighing Not far Like a night wind in pines or like the sea in the dark The echo of everything that has ever Been spoken Still spinning its one syllable Between the earth and silence

So this is what I am Pondering his eyes that could not Conceive that I was a creature to run from I who have always believed too much in words

You never can tell when you send a word, Like an arrow shot from a bow By an archer blind, be it cruel or kind, Just where it may chance to go!

Oh, many a shaft at random sentFinds mark the archer little meant!And many a word at random spokenMay soothe, or wound, a heart that's broken!

A false or misunderstood word may create as much disaster as a sudden thoughtless act.

Words should be used as tools of communication and not as a substitute for action

When we learn to speak, we learn to translate.

The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.

Language is a poor enough means of communication as it is. So we should use all the words we have.

Many times in life I've regretted the things I've said without thinking. But I've never regretted the things I said nearly as much as the words I left unspoken.

Her stillness was such a contrast to all the jumbled communication inside me that I suddenly felt what a tiresome fellow I was, always filling the air with the rattle of words and anxieties.

I come from a tradition - from the Jewish tradition, which believes in words, in language, in communication.

One two, one two, Type a word or two. Arrow left, arrow right, Keep those fingers nice and tight.Keys up, Keys down, Move those digits all around.One two, one two, Type a word or two.

Through words he gave voice to the voiceless. Through deeds he gave courage to the faint of heart.

So many words get lost. They leave the mouthand lose their courage, wandering aimlessly until they are swept into the gutter like dead leaves. On rainy days you can hear their chorus rushing past.

Dad's especially need to remember that what they say to their daughters is written in Sharpie. It can't be erased.

One day my dad said, "If you guys ever stop singing, I'll drop you like a hot potato." That's what he said. It hurt me. You don't say that to children and I never forgot it.

I am single because I am allergic for cursing words and bad table manners

She will never win him, whose words had shown she feared to lose.