Quotes About Words

The Language" Locate I love you some- where in teeth and eyes, bite it but take care not to hurt, you want so much so little. Words say everything. I love you again, then what is emptiness for. To fill, fill. I heard words and words full of holes aching. Speech is a mouth.

The Token" My lady fair with soft arms, what can I say to you—words, words as if all worlds were there.

By the time he had reached adolescence, he had become adept at manipulating people and getting them to do what he wanted. A few well-placed words in the right ears could be twice as damaging as an equal number of bullets, and much harder to trace back to their source.

I hardly have the words to analyse why I like or love a piece of music – I have words, of course, but a layman's words, I don't really know what a cadence is, let alone a Phrygian cadence or an augmented sixth.

That is some gift you have, Mr. Sloane… what you did to those jurors. I don't know how you did it, how you convinced them. They didn't want to believe you. I saw it when they came back. They had their minds made up." A tear rolled down her cheek; she disregarded it. "Well, consider this, Mr. Sloane. My Emily is dead, and my grandson will never have his mother. That is something you can't change with your words.

When at the consecration the priest moves into the mode of first-person quotation, he is not speaking in his own person but in the person of Jesus—and that's why those words change the elements.

Only this morning I heard a radio speaker make the observation that, in most matters, we move in either of two directions: from words to things, or from things to words. That is to say, if we do not make the journey from theories and ideals to concrete situations, then the concrete situations will be lost under a smog of words.

Words are more thoughts; the photographed images always ends up having a romantic gloss about it - no matter how I try to avoid it.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

There are tones of voices that mean more than words.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts...

Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts...

Tis a strange mystery, the power of words! Life is in them, and death. A word can send The crimson colour hurrying to the cheek, Hurrying with many meanings, or can turn The current cold and deadly to the heart.

person who cannot control his words shows that he cannot control himself, and is unworthy of respect.

Our new routine didn't require a stage or a microphone. Comedy isn't just words, syllables, phonemes. It's not just parking meters and airplane food and bad weather and tired punchlines. It's seeing what no one else sees and saying what no one else wants to say.

There are moments when the body is as numinous as words, days that are the good flesh continuing. Such tenderness, those afternoons and evenings, saying blackberry, blackberry, blackberry.

Sometimes it is good and sometimes it is dangerous like the ignorance of particulars, but our words are clear and our movements give off light.

I ain't much for advice. Never been any good with words the way some men are. But I know, sometimes the tears just don't come. When the time comes to start healin', you oughta let yourself.

From this duty We Ourself must not be deterred by the knowledge of Our own weakness and ignorance, but to trust rather that He Who has placed Us on this throne will deign to speak through Our mouth and use Our words to His glory.

Robert J. Harris

Las palabras provocan sensaciones físicas, no solamente transmiten significados

when he witnessed his first struggle (against another prisoner) - during which the cell chief urged everyone to "help" the man under fire - he thought to himself: "So this is the way of the Communists - using good words to do bad things

A writer has to strain to make the reader recover the process in the words 'human being'; we talk about 'a being' and 'beings.' This book is about human being as an activity. It is not about the doing which a human does; it is about the doing which a human is.