Quotes About Words

Take care of your thoughts when you are alone, and take care of your words when you are with people.

Sometimes words may not mean much, other times they may mean the world. They say there is a time and place for everything but at times we have no room in our hearts for that time or place or anything at all. Sometimes we just want to be left alone.

Before. b-e-f-o-r-e, not B4. We speak English. Not bingo.

Every word affords me pain. Yet how sweet it would be if I could hear what the flowers have to say about death!

I'll never forget my grandmother's last words. She said 'What are you doing?'

The anguished suspense of watching the lips you hunger for, framing the words, the death sentence, of sheer triteness!

One day I shall leave the world, And if you feel like remembering me-Search me not in my ashes, In my words, you can rummage me!

Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture.

Poet: gardener of epitaphs.

The world was made before English language, and seemingly upon a different design.

A recurring ideal, I find, is that of simplicity. At times there comes the desire to write with great precision and clarity, words so simple and moving that they bring tears to the eyes.

I got over the loss of his desk and chair, but never the desire to produce a string of words more precious than the emeralds of Cortés.

I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.

A person writing at night may put out the lamp, but the words he has written will remain. It is the same with the destiny we create for ourselves in this world.

RIDICULE, n. Words designed to show that the person of whom they are uttered is devoid of the dignity of character distinguishing him who utters them.

There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene.

All books are either dreams or swords, You can cut, or you can drug, with words.

Not all the truths are told, dreams are shattered, words are unspoken, memories are haunting but the imagination is still fighting to settle down.

The investigation of the meaning of words is the beginning of education.

Reggie - that was on the court. Reginald is the executive.

Accuracy of language is one of the bulwarks of truth.

'Concierge' comes from the Latin for 'slave.'

I find something very appealing about taking literature very literally.

Got so much to say, such little time.