Quotes About Words

We never know how far reaching something we may think, say, or do today will effect the lives of millions tomorrow.

I said, "I do not fear those pants with nobody inside them." I said, and said, and said those words. I said them but I lied them.

You love me and I love you, and your heart hurts, mine does too. And its just words and they cut deep but its our world, its just us two.

When all is said and done, more is always said than done.

In the process, what must be spoken meets what cannot be said. Each word is a catalyst, requiring the writer to break out forcefully from another story, from the primitive camp where history, society, and politics converge, to touch upon that 'what' and that 'who.' At that touch, one finds the unlimited boundaries of man, concealed by words.

Words can be worrisome, poeple complex, motives and manners unclear, grant her the wisdom to choose her path right, free from unkindness and fear.

It only takes a minute to cause hurt but sometimes a lifetime to repair. Be careful with your words and actions.

Value your words. Each one may be the last.

Our thoughts, words and actions produce feelings; and these feelings become the currency with which we produce our life experiences.

I believe the gun has no power because a gun can only kill, but a pen can give life.

Such as thy words are, such will thy affections be esteemed; and such will thy deeds be as thy affections and such thy life as thy deeds.

We spent our whole lives in unconsous excercise of the art of expressing our thoughts with the help of words

I enjoy looking at words on paper and visualizing how to make them come to life. As a director, the creative process is really amazing.

I cannot face the idea of life without work. What would one do when ideas failed or words refused to come? It is impossible not to shudder at the thought.

The tongue has the power of life and death.

All of life is a risk; in fact we're not going to get out alive. Casualness leads to casualties. Communication is the ability to affect other people with words.

Your words can permanently influence a life.

All of life in its complexity and beauty is forever minted in the gold of words.

Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language.

We might have been - these are but common words, and yet they make the sum of life's bewailing.

So, I never lose a sense of the whimsical and perilous charm of daily life, with its meetings and words and accidents.

Violence is not merely killing another. It is violence when we use a sharp word, when we make a gesture to brush away a person, when we obey because there is fear. So violence isn't merely organized butchery in the name of God, in the name of society or country. Violence is much more subtle, much deeper, and we are inquiring into the very depths of violence.

Never explain anything. "The more you have to explain," Whitaker said, "the more difficult it is to win support." Say the same thing over and over again. "We assume we have to get a voter's attention seven times to make a sale," Whitaker said. Subtlety is your enemy. "Words that lean on the mind are no good," according to Baxter.

TO WRITE SOMETHING down doesn't make it true. But the history of truth is lashed to the history of writing like a mast to a sail.