Quotes About Words

A good many of the special words of business seem designed more to express the user's dreams than to express a precise meaning.

Definitions would be good things if we did not use words to make them.

Gifts, like words, carried with them a great deal of power. They bestowed good fortune just as powerfully as they could curse; the could bind people together or tear them apart.

A good word costs as little as a bad one, and is worth more.

Good writing can be defined as having something to say and saying it well. When one has nothing to say, one should remain silent. Silence is always beautiful at such times.

No soul is bad enough for a fixed "hell," or good enough for a fixed "heaven," however useful the words may be as pointing to opposite states.

It's as serious as anyone ever gets, you know. It's just words. It's just good poetry.

Truthful words are not beautiful beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive persuasive words are not good.

When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen in the real world, and like spells, they only work if people believe in them.

And a government that accepts that it will be judged more by its deeds than by its mere words.

People will frighten you about a graduation....They use words you don't hear often.

I too turned to Webster's Dictionary and it defined Harvard University as a season for gathering crops.

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and falls again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet.

A great writer has all 4 - but you can still be a good writer with only 1 and 2.

No great talker ever did any great thing yet, in this world.

One of the marks of a great poet is that he creates his own family of words and teaches them to live together in harmony and to help one another.

The great words never die... and so does the soul of its author.

The word happiness exists in every language; it is plausible the thing itself exists.

... trouble of all kinds is voluble, and has plenty of words, but happiness was never written down.

The words, 'penalty,' 'restrict' and 'violate' appeared more times in President Clinton's health care reform bill than in his crime bill.

Stressed spelled backwards is desserts.

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

Throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality.