Quotes About Words

Literature has the power to change lives, minds, and hearts.

The spoken word is never really effective unless it is backed up by a life, but it is also true that the living deed is never adequate without the support the spoken word can provide.

These gems have life in them: their colors speak, say what words fail of.

Whenever you are fed up with life, start writing: ink is the great cure for all human ills, as I have found out long ago.

I answered that one learns to live, not by hearing of other lives, but by living; for words are infinitely less important than acts.

You can share your testimony in many ways, by the words you speak, by the example you set, by the manner in which you live your life.

All deception in the course of life is indeed nothing else but a lie reduced to practice, and falsehood passing from words into things.

Words can not express the joy of new life.

Words people say not only have a shelf life but have the ability to shape life.

Words lead to deeds, they prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness.

Some people live life and others talk about it.

Actions lie louder than words.

There is the silence of age, too full of wisdom for the tongue to utter it in words intelligible to those who have not lived the great range of life.

Dreams - Language in a dream is unspoken but understood. Words get in the way.

Since I stopped writing, I read more than ever. Other people's words, not my own—my words are gone.

She is collecting all the unhappy, mad, bad, unpleasant words and keeping them for herself. "Why are we doing this, Dec?" Because they shouldn't be in there mixed with the good. They like to trick you.

It's the mean parts she wants. She is collecting all the unhappy, mad, bad, unpleasant words and keeping them for herself. "Why are we doing this, Dec?" "Because they shouldn't be in there mixed with the good. They like to trick you?

I don't say anything because I used to love words. I loved them and was good at arranging them. Because of this, I felt protective of all the best ones. But now all of them, good and bad, frustrate me.

books spread across the comforter. Since I stopped writing, I read more than ever. Other people's words, not my own—my words are gone.

sometimes there's beauty in the tough words—it's all in how you read them.

The Cat in the Hat became a massive bestseller, allowing Geisel to quit his day job and start building the Seuss empire. This included not just books but words: a master neologian, he invented the terms oobleck, grinch, and nerd.

Green Eggs and Ham. The book was not actually written to encourage fussy eaters to eat, but to make Seuss's editor Bennett Cerf eat his words. (Cerf had bet Seuss he couldn't write a book using fifty words or less.) Green Eggs and Ham hit it on the nail, and Geisel won fifty dollars, or would have, but Cerf never paid.

There was a universe inside every human being every bit as big as the universe outside them. Books were the best way Nina knew - apart from, sometimes, music - to breach the barrier, to connect the internal universe with the external, the words acting merely as a conduit between the two worlds.

Nunca me he arrepentido, ni por un segundo. ¿Cómo puedes lamentar una de las mejores noches de tu vida? No lo haces. Recuerdas cada palabra, cada mirada. Incluso cuando duele, sigues recordando.