Words Quotes
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Their words, like the music, had the potential to be endless.
Sarah Dessen -
I know the words to, like, every song. Hoobastank, whatever.
Lennon Parham
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Language is powerful. Words matter.
Eric Metaxas -
I've always been in love with language. My favorite book is a dictionary. I have always loved words.
Denis Villeneuve -
Words were not given to man in order to conceal his thoughts.
Jose Saramago -
One feels 'the dearth of human words, the roughness of mortal speech' in trying to describe things intangible.
Ernest Shackleton -
What's more, I don't believe any policeman uses words like "antonym". I don't believe you're a policeman at all.
Edmund Crispin -
I know a lot about words. I get paid to write stories, so I get to talk with people about the meaning behind words all day.
Marti Noxon
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The mistake we make is to look for a source of comfort in ourselves: self-contemplation, instead of gazing upon God. In other words, we look for comfort precisely where comfort never can be.
Frederick William Robertson -
When you think about it, words can break your heart, or they can change your day.
Anna Deavere Smith -
To conceal a want of real ideas, many make for themselves an imposing apparatus of long compound words, intricate flourishes and phrases, new and unheard-of expressions, all of which together furnish an extremely difficult jargon that sounds very learned. Yet with all this they say-precisely nothing.
Arthur Schopenhauer -
I begin already to weigh my words and sentences more than I did, and am looking about for a sentiment, an illustration, or a metaphor in every corner of the room. Could my Ideas flow as fast as the rain in the Storecloset it would be charming.
Jane Austen -
Why do you write?' Because I love words and stories so much. Because I would be grief stricken every day of my life if I couldn't write. Because I'm obsessed and compelled. Because I'd be utterly useless at anything else.
Jennifer Donnelly -
Everybody always tells you what an awesome and unique experience being a parent is. Words can never do the feeling justice.
Eric Church
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It is difficult to believe that even idiots ever succumbed to such transparent contradictions, to such gaudy processions of mere counter-words, to so vast and obvious a nonsensicalitysentence after sentence that has no apparent meaning at all--stuff quite as bad as the worst bosh of Warren Gamaliel Harding.
H. L. Mencken -
Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I prefer darker things and more minimal stuff. I don't like when people just put words on canvases.
Eliot Paulina Sumner -
I invent words you think you've heard - spray hopper or swag beetle.
Jim Crace -
Zen Buddhism does not preach. Sermons remain words. It waits until people feel stifled and insecure, driven by a secret longing.
Eugen Herrigel -
There are some things for which three words are three too many, and three thousand words that many words too less.
William Faulkner
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We need words to name and designate things. But we have only a static language with which to express ourselves.
Piet Mondrian -
I don't begin a novel or a screenplay until I know the ending. And I don't mean only that I have to know what happens. I mean that I have to hear the actual sentences. I have to know what atmosphere the words convey.
John Irving -
It is really hard to be lonely very long in a world of words. Even if you don't have friends somewhere, you still have language, and it will find you and wrap its little syllables around you and suddenly there will be a story to live in.
Naomi Shihab Nye -
It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
Moliere