Quotes About Words

Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.

Tek Gözlü Paritus Kelimeler ÅŸark? söylemeye koyulduÄŸunda dans etmeye baÅŸlar?m. diyordu. Gamaliel'in çevresinde ise dans eden dünya. O,dans etmeyi hiç öÄŸrenmedi.

If one is going to praise children's honesty when their words please, one must tolerate it when the words do not.

Meaningful prayer is a matter of the heart, not the eloquence of the words.

Mercifully my dear Edna, said Peg, I do not remember anything I have ever said in my entire life.

Mercifullym my dear Edna, said Peg, I do not remember anything I have ever said in my entire life.

A beautiful garden and a beautiful woman have much in common. They both bring peace and tranquillity to the man who is fortunate enough to possess them. Rachel was silent. To be possessed by Jeronimo was a dream she could never aspire to, but she would remember his words for ever.

Never before had I known the sudden quiver of understanding that travels from word to brain to heart, the way a new language can move, coil, swim into life under the eyes, the almost savage leap of comprehension, the instantaneous, joyful release of meaning, the way the words shed their printed bodies in a flash of heat and light. Since then I have known this moment

but a library is a gorgeous language that you will never speak fluently.

You'll find, someday, Paks found herself saying, that your own tongue cuts you worse than any blade. I

I do not want to work. I want to think about what it is they want to do to my brain and think about what it means. It means more than they say; everything they say means more than it says. Beyond the words is the tone; beyond the tone is the context; beyond the context is the unexplored territory of normal socialization, vast and dark as night, lit by the few pinpricks of similar experience, like stars.

if only my whole life could be words and music, if only everything else could slip away.

I sometimes hold it half a sinTo put in words the grief I feel;For words, like Nature, half revealAnd half conceal the Soul within.

What one thinks finds expression in words, and what one says, happens.

For words divide and rend;But silence is most noble till the end.

When you play the past over and over in your head, you can begin to see things in it that you missed when you were living it. You come to realize that there were moments when one word said differently, or one thing done at just the right time, would have changed everything.

A story that needs to have words said about it, is a story that does not contain all its own right words. -- Introduction to Varley's "Persistence Of Vision" collection

A man interested in the meaning of words, not one whose interests leave words meaningless.

Language is like poppies. It just takes something to churn the earth round them up, and when it does up come the sleeping words, bright red, fresh, blowing about. Then the seedheads rattle, the seeds fall out. Then there's even more language waiting to come up.

All of this information flashes through George's head in that fraction of a second it takes to do the single swivel round towards H in her mother's chair and say the words: It's my mother's study. Cool, H says.

Language is like poppies. It just takes something to churn the earth round them up, and when it does up come the sleeping words, bright red, fresh, blowing about. Then the seedheads rattle, the seeds fall out. Then there's even more language waiting to come up.

We name us and then we are lost, tamed I choose words, more words, to cure the tameness, not the wildness

Sticks and stones may break my bones; But names will never hurt me When I die, then you'll cry for the names you called me.

If I had a soul I sold it for pretty words If I had a body I used it up spurting my essence Allen Ginsberg warns you dont follow my path to extinction