Quotes About Words

My father always said that too many words cheapened the value of a man's speech.

I'll remember your words," he told her with returned seriousness, though he pictured Anna taking her grandmother's rolling pin after the ghosts who haunted him, and it made him want to...smirk again.

If you are going to use white man's words to describe yourself, 'avatar' is more accurate than 'walker.

Samuel, the son of a Welsh bard, who shared his father's gift for words, stammering like an infatuated teenager.

Except you. The revelation was so blindingly sudden the words almost slipped out, and she had to bit her tongue and look away. pg 391, A Matter of Magic

If the words or attitude disempower, disrespect, or devalue the other, then they are abusive.

Verbal abuse: Words that attack or injure, that cause one to believe the false, or that speak falsely of one.

Words are partly thoughts, but mostly they're music, deep down. Thinking itself is, perhaps, orchestral, the mind conducting the world. Conducting it, constructing it.

Listen to your heart, it speaks, hear its words

Tune, tune," said Porch briskly. He turned to Orson. "And is there a word for today?" Orson was the word person, spilling words out as if they were notes on a staff. "Rebarbative," said Orson promptly. "Causing annoyance or irritation. Mozart's rebarbative music causes me to want to throw up." Porch sighed. Orson preferred Schubert.

Miss Skylark once said it's heroic to make something beautiful out of a blank page," I say. "With art or words.

Out of our writer mouths Will come clouds Rising to the sky Dropping rain words below. And when the clouds leave The sun will shine down word After word After word Planting our stories in the earth. —Russell

Sometimes poetry--words--give us a small, lovely look at ourselves. And sometimes that is enough.

If you look hard enough, chaos turns into order the way letters turn into words.

Old, beautiful words – 'From envy, hatred, malice and all uncharitableness – Good Lord deliver us.' How many of the people who make a glib response have really turned away from the evil in their thoughts before it breaks into word or open deed?

I sacrifice everything to the music of the words.

She made another sweeping gesture that somehow went wrong because she knocked over the coffee pot and I immediately wrote down six new words which Auntie Mame said to scratch out and forget.

Among your earthiest words, the angels stray...

Without a knowledge of where words come from, things disappear, history is lost.

Dan: I love you. • Alice: Where? • Dan: What? • Alice: Show me. Where is this 'love'? I can't see it, I can't touch it, I can't feel it. I can hear it, I can hear some words but I can't do anything with your easy words.

You do not write your life with words, the monster said. You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.

Tu vida no la escribes con palabras —dijo el monstruo—. La escribes con acciones. Lo que piensas no es importante. Lo único importante es lo que haces.

It does not matter what you think, your mind will contradict itself a hundred times each day. Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies necessary. You do not write your life with words, you write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.

A book, he thinks at one point, rubbing his eyes, tired from so much focused reading. It's a world all on its own, too. He looks at the cover again. A satyr playing pan pipes, far more innocent-looking than when it got up to in the story. A world made of words, Seth thinks, where you live for a while. "And then it's over," he says.