Quotes About Words

And all else is literature.

A poem is really a kind of machine for producing the poetic state by means of words.

By all means continue to call me names. I daresay I have far too much confidence.

Her words smelled of bonfires. They felt like dirt, filling his mouth. They tasted like Halloween. A.C. Wise For the Removal of Unwanted Guests

One day you might want to train for other owners, maybe even for Delamere. You've got the right base and you've the instincts." "Get my trainer's licence, you mean? Has a woman done that?" "Maybe not. But there aren't any rules against it." "I could try…. " I let the words trail away.

This is why there is poetry. For days like these.

THIS IS A PRINTING OFFICE CROSSROADS OF CIVILIZATION Refuge of all the arts against the ravages of time ARMOURY OF FEARLESS TRUTH AGAINST WHISPERING RUMOR INCESSANT TRUMPET OF TRADE From this place words may fly abroad NOT TO PERISH ON WAVES OF SOUND NOT TO VARY WITH THE WRITER'S HAND BUT FIXED IN TIME HAVING BEEN VERIFIED IN PROOF Friend you stand on sacred ground

THIS IS A PRINTING OFFICE CROSSROADS OF CIVILIZATION Refuge of all the arts against the ravages of time ARMOURY OF FEARLESS TRUTH AGAINST WHISPERING RUMOR INCESSANT TRUMPET OF TRADE From this place words may fly abroad NOT TO PERISH ON WAVES OF SOUND

Some words were like that. Whole lives attached to them. Ghosts and lives and ecstasy and sorrow.

Trust is contingent on the evidence which one party provides the others of his true, concrete intentions; it cannot exist if that party's words do not coincide with their actions. To say one thing and do another—to take one's own word lightly—cannot inspire trust. To glorify democracy and to silence the people is a farce; to discourse on humanism and to negate people is a lie.

hay cosas que cuesta más el decirlas que el pasarlas.

Mal haya ocasión, mal haya, 155 sin espadas y con lenguas, que son las peores armas, pues una herida mejor se cura que una palabra!

A speech is poetry: cadence, rhythm, imagery, sweep! A speech reminds us that words, like children, have the power to make dance the dullest beanbag of a heart.

They weren't trying to self-consciously fashion a phrase that would grab the listener. They were simply trying to capture in words the essence of the thought they wished to communicate.

I find this miraculous. I never cease to wonder at it. That words are more durable than anything...

He had already incapacitated me, harried me, cut away most of my illusions and some of my ignorance; he had already so weakened me that I was falling back on myths, words, mysteries to replace what I had lost.

Well perhaps it is the context in which words are spoken that give them the power of meaning. I LOVE YOU DOG.

we don't have a twenty-letter alphabet, we have a twenty-six-letter alphabet." And then I say, "Oh, I guess I left out U R A Q T!" And then you say, "That's still only twenty-five." And I say, "I'll give you the D later.

What is life? Thoughts and feelings arise, with or without our will, and we employ words to express them. We are born, and our birth is unremembered and our infancy remembered but in fragments. We live on, and in living we lose the apprehension of life. How vain is it to think that words can penetrate the mystery of our being. Rightly used they may make evident our ignorance of ourselves, and this is much.

Just as leaven in bread will cause it to rise, the words and actions of others will cause their bad seed to produce weeds instead of fruit.

Maybe words, like potions, were also capable of magic.

I don't know and probably never will know enough about the true nature of the universe to tell anyone else what to believe, and I've come to distrust the words of those who have presumed to do so.

In another surprise, when letters are omitted from words in a text, requiring the reader to supply them, reading is slowed, and retention improves.

Unfortunately I have never been good in math. Numbers simply do not interest me or seem as real to me as words.