Words Quotes
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The words carry their own momentum. A confession in motion tends to stay in motion. Newton's first law of jealousy.
Erica Jong
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Words for being lost or for being found.
Elena Ferrante
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And this, even more wonderful and mysterious, is also true: when I read it, when I read what Julie's written, she is instantly alive again, whole and undamaged. With her words in my mind while I'm reading, she is as real as I am. Gloriously daft, drop-dead charming, full of bookish nonsense and foul language, brave and generous. She's right here. Afraid and exhausted, alone, but fighting. Flying in silver moonlight in a plane that can't be landed, stuck in the climb—alive, alive, ALIVE.
Elizabeth Wein
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Thinking in pictures precedes thinking in words.
Immanuel Kant
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He rightly reads scripture who turns words into deeds.
Bernard of Clairvaux
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That was the hard thing about grief, and the grieving. They spoke another language, and the words we knew always fell short of what we wanted them to say.
Sarah Dessen
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In two words," said Alan quietly, "there is nothing I love half as much as you.
Sarah Rees Brennan
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A picture's worth a thousand words? A library card's worth millions.
Roy Blount, Jr.
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High Air-castles are cunningly built of Words, the Words well bedded also in good Logic-mortar; wherein, however, no Knowledge will come to lodge.
Thomas Carlyle
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So many things inspire me to write, that’s really hard to put into words. Usually some form of chaos or discomfort propels me into a writing mode.
Sarah Neufeld
Arcade Fire
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Kind looks, kind actions, kind words, and a lovely, holy deportment towards them will bind our children to us with bands that cannot easily be broken; while abuse and unkindness will drive them from us, and break asunder every holy tie that should bind them to us and to the everlasting covenant in which we are all embraced.
Brigham Young
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Words are freeborn, and not the vassals of the gruff tyrants of prose to do their bidding only. They have the same right to dance and sing as the dewdrops have to sparkle and the stars to shine.
Abraham Coles
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Only she can say if, in fact, she has managed to insert herself into this extremely long chain of words to modify my text, to purposely supply the missing links, to unhook others without letting it show, to say of me more than I want, more than I’m able to say.
Elena Ferrante
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...I would think how words go straight up in a thin line, quick and harmless, and how terribly doing goes along the earth, clinging to it, so that after a while the two lines are too far apart for the same person to straddle from one to the other; and that sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot have until they forget the words.
William Faulkner
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I love doing my surreal sing-along that had words that no one could follow.
Steve Martin
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Steve Jobs would have wanted his words to change not just technology but politics itself.
John McAfee
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Words were never invented to fully explain the peaceful aura that surrounds us when we are in communion with minds of the same thoughts.
Eddie Myers
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Though a man should say but a few words, and his sentences and words be ever so ungrammatical, if he speaks by the power of the Holy Ghost, he will do good.
Brigham Young
