Quotes About Words

Still less could I be afraid of those ghosts who touch my thoughts in passing. Any library is filled with them. I can take a book from dusty shelves, and be haunted by the thoughts of one long dead, still lively as ever in their winding sheet of words.

up to your ears in whores and poetesses in Paris." "Poetesses?" Jamie was beginning to sound amused. "What makes ye think women write poetry? Or that a woman who writes poetry would be wanton?" "Well, o' course they are. Everybody kens that. The words get into their heads and drive them mad, and they

How to tell her in words, then, what he had learned himself by pain and grace? That only by forgiveness could she forget—and that forgiveness was not a single act, but a matter of constant practice. Perhaps

What I've certainly learned is that whenever I've said anything about real politics, I've come under attack. So it's best simply to play politics on television.

If I had my druthers, I wouldn't have anyone's words in my script but my own, but if you want complete autonomy, just stick to novels.

With acting, when you're reading a script, you're regurgitating someone else's words. There's a whole part of your brain that's off duty.

I think leadership is something you earn, more through actions than words.

I am not eloquent.

I wanted to be an empowered woman, and I became an empowered woman. And now I want to empower every woman. And I do it through my clothes, I do it through my words, I do it through my money, I do it through everything.

I've always loved the English language. I just like words, you know?

I became an author because I love words. I enjoyed playing with them when I was a kid, writing stories and plays, and doing whatever I could think to do with words. I kept my love of them growing up and still love to see what they can do.

There are two kinds of obscurity; one arises from a lack of feelings and thoughts, which have been replaced by words; the other from an abundance of feelings and thoughts, and the inadequacy of words to express them.

Images are meanings in the art of Gerald Murnane, who says bluntly (in Words and Silk ): 'The only things that really interest me are images'.

Grown-ups and children are not readily encouraged to unearth the power of words. Adults are repeatedly assured a picture is worth a thousand of them, while the playground response to almost any verbal taunt is 'sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.' I don't beg so much as command to differ.

No descuido la escritura, sino a mí misma. Los otros saben dios lo sabe qué hacer con las palabras. Yo no soy mi asistente. ¿Debo aprisionar un pensamiento llevarlo a la iluminada celda de una frase?

For in his presence I grow silent, because the smallest words — yes, now, well, and, but, then, oh! — are so loaded, coming from me to him they have a hundred times their meaning

A quien nunca se quedó sin palabras, y yo os lo digo, quien sólo sabe ayudarse a sí mismo, con las palabras, a éste no se le puede ayudar. Ni por el camino corto ni por el largo. Hacer sostenible una única frase, aguantar el dig-dong de las palabras. Nadie escriba esta frase que no la firma.

When someone is living in the vapors of his happiness, when he no longer has many words at his disposal, simply "God bless you", "May God reward you," then people should not attempt to wash him, should not wash off what is good for him, should not try and clean him up for a new life that does not exist.

Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all." ?Emily Dickinson

Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break." ? William Shakespeare

Four things come not back: The spoken word, The sped arrow, The past life, The neglected opportunity. – Arabian Proverb

Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break." ? William

Sometimes it's better to put love into hugs than to put it into words. ~ Author Unknown

Four things come not back: The spoken word, The sped arrow, The past life, The neglected opportunity.