Quotes About Words

As I mounted the stairs, my lips silently tried out the two words "contrary warrior" together.

I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot.

Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.

The last words Albus Dumbledore spoke to the pair of us?' Harry is the best hope we have. Trust him.

Until we begin to put pen to paper, we historically do not exist.

Please bury me in the library With a dozen long-stemmed proses

The experience of seeing how our thought and our words and our ideas have been confined by the limitation of our experience is one which is salutary and is in a certain sense good for a man's morals as well as good for his pleasure. It seems to us [scientists] that this is an opening up of the human spirit , avoiding its provincialism and narrowness.

Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

I can't use words to respond to this communication...I can only answer...as a forward!

Someone who doesn't know history, he says, is "in the literal sense half-witted . . . He does not know what half his own words mean, or what half his own actions signify.

The snobs of the world avoid words of one syllable because they avoid common sense, plain words, clear thinking. They prefer long words, which are a substitute for thinking.

But even when the words are repeated, they don't seem attached to the world. No. That can't be true. That doesn't make sense. Only last night he. That doesn't fit. No. No, she says. But refusal only works on other people, on fate it has no effect.

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.

Words are the only bullets in truth's bandolier. And poets are the snipers.

words that would be howl'd out in the desert air, where hearing should not latch them.

The daylight needs no praise, and so we praise it always- greater than ourselves and all the airy words we summon.

Motivation is deeply personal and only you know what words or images will resonate with you.

Nowadays, everyone—whether we're the head of an organization or its freshest hire—faces a torrent of information. The McKinsey Global Institute estimates that the typical American hears or reads more than one hundred thousand words every day.

Memories fade but words hang around forever.

I can only give you words. Nothing fancy. But this will have to do. It doesn't matter if you're reading it a year from now or a hundred years from now. By the end of the chronicle you will know that humanity carried the flame of knowledge into the terrible blackness of the unknown, to the very brink of annihilation. And we carried it back.

El izquierdo se centra en el texto; el derecho tiene que ver con el contexto.

Your left brain loves and desires order. It is logical, literal, linguistic (it likes words), and linear

Books, after all, are extraordinary things: thoughts made visible, paper and ink sculptures of the mind, time and space made into words. There's no end to judging so many books. But a literary editor's work is never what Ecclesiastes calls a weariness of the flesh. Rather, it's an animation of the spirit.

I don't know too many people who, when the TV announcer says, 'Viewer discretion is advised', then turn the TV off. Those are code words for, 'Turn the sound up; this is gonna be really good.'