Words Quotes
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While trauma keeps us dumbfounded, the path out of it is paved with words, carefully assembled, piece by piece, until the whole story can be revealed.
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'Refudiate,' 'misunderestimate,' 'wee-wee'd up.' English is a living language. Shakespeare liked to coin new words too. Got to celebrate it!'
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Those for whom words have lost their value are likely to find that ideas have also lost their value.
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The essence of faith is fewness of words and abundance of deeds.
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With a lot of songs, songs that don't make a good statement, I forget the words.
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He loves but little who can say and count in words, how much he loves.
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He couldn't believe that his last words on Earth would be "she's my rocket ship
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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.
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One final thing a director needs: The ability to say 'I am wrong' or 'I was wrong.' Not as easy as it sounds. But in many situations, these 3 words, honestly spoken, will save the day.
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A lot of negative words adults call the young, like 'naive,' 'impulsive' and 'way too connected online,' are all things we can turn into strengths to help us.
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I do believe that actions often speak louder than words.
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Too many words are the locusts of the mind, which darken the air of the understanding and eat up our meaning.
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Each word is pumped up with consonant cholesterol. It's full of fat words. The pages cream with subcutaneous fat. New letters are gilded like showy teeth, making comprehension constipated and exorbitantly metalled.
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What business, said Priscilla's look more plainly than any words, what business had people to walk into other people's cottages in such a manner? She stood quite still, and scrutinized Mrs. Morrison with the questioning expression she used to find so effective in Kunitz days when confronted by a person inclined to forget which, exactly, was his proper place. But Mrs. Morrison knew nothing of Kunitz, and the look lost half its potency without its impressive background. Besides, the lady was not one to notice things so slight as looks; to keep her in her proper place you would have needed sledge-hammers.
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The world is a great poem, and the world's The words it is writ in, and we souls the thoughts.
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A painter is someone who can't use words. His only escape is to be a seer.
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Before you speak, ask yourself this question: will your words improve the silence?
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They who secure eternal life are doers of the word as well as hearers...
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I have spoken words of hope. But only of hope. Hope is not victory.
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Like a beautiful flower that is colorful but has no fragrance, even well spoken words bear no fruit in one who does not put them into practice.
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Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to others.
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When I was a kid, I never spoke. I would sit under a table and not speak to anybody. No words for years.
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She understood. They were plastic flowers of words—but they looked nice on the surface.
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What's interesting about songs where the writer is genuinely in love with words is that it's easy to read the lyrics like a poem.
