Quotes About Words

Palabras que anulan, que hieren, que nos han marcado a ella y a mí y nos han ido envenenando.

He taught me that language was rubbery, plastic. It wasn't, as I thought, something you just use, but something you can play with. Words were made up of little bits that could be shuffled, turned back to front, remixed. They could be tucked and folded into other words to produce unexpected things. It was like cookery, like alchemy. Language hid more than it revealed.

Keep close the words of Syadasti: 'TIS AN ILL WIND THAT BLOWS NO MINDS. And remember that there is no tyranny in the State of Confusion. For further information, consult your pineal gland.

I hadn't fully realized just how powerful words could be before this. Whoever came up with the saying 'sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me' was talking out of his or her armpit.

Whoever came up with the saying 'sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me' was talking out of his or her armpit.

She sees afresh how knowledge feeds the soul and how minds laid open to well-crafted words grow richer; and she sees that, given the chance, the only limits to complex understanding are those imposed by lack of opportunity and damaged self-belief.

Watch your words; they become your actions. Watch your actions; they become your habits. Watch your habits; they become your character. Watch your character; it will become your destiny. And that's not always good:

Era uno de esos pedantes que tanto abundaban a la sazón, siervos del paganismo resucitado, de quienes Erasmo se mofa porque sólo consideraban verdaderamente latinas las palabras que Cicerón incluyó en su léxico.

Qué pasa que a veces alguien dice algo y conquista para siempre a otra persona?

Out of sight, out of body, there is nothing, there is no longer anything. And the words that humans invented to make themselves believe there was something, first of all the word "death" itself, fraught with terror and hope, only conceal the nothingness.

Ve? sam ti rekao da prestaneš da se bojiš rije?i. Važno je da koristimo prave rije?i.

Boys like to fight, and of course, it's in their nature. But as they grow up and their vocabulary expands, they will find the right words to express themselves and the violence will subside. Brutality is just the result of frustration, the incapacity to express oneself in words. Without words, people often resort to fists.

Brutality is just the result of frustration, the incapacity to express oneself in words. Without words, people often resort to fists.

There's an old Irish saying: Many a time a man's mouth broke his nose.

He was, in the words of one modern historian, 'the last great pagan king of Anglo-Saxon England'.

there seems to be no good reason to doubt that Alfred could have done at least some translating,

But sometimes the future is latent in us without our knowing it, and our supposedly lying words foreshadow an imminent reality.

Soft words to his fierce passion she assayed

Indeed, a book is a path of words which takes the heart in new directions.

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

Zoë's tonsils for once." Magdy was

Wow, really?" I said, before I could stop myself. "I used the wrong word, didn't I," Davidson said, looking at me. "I can never remember if 'clank' or 'threep' is the word I'm not supposed to be using today.

With sentences, shorter is better than longer:

I trust you," Dahl said. "Famous last words," Nick said