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Now we were standing around holding hands and not much was going on. I began to think of words I had known, just for fun, to fill up the blank space in my head. Couch, I thought. Cuisinart, I thought.The words felt different right now than they had before. They meant a little less, held a little less, but seemed somehow fuller: I had never really noticed how much sound there was in a word. The way it filled your mouth up with emptiness, a sort of loosened emptiness that you could tongue, an emptiness you could suck on like a stone. Stomach, I thought. Variety, I thought. Expectation. Intimation. Infiltration. Infiltration: I tongued that one further. I knew it had a hostile aspect, like someone breaking into your house or posing as someone you should trust. But it also had a lovely sound, a kind of tapered point and a gently ruffled edge, and as I repeated it over and over in my mouth it took on a really great flavor and I thought of water filtering in and out of a piece of fabric, back and forth, moving between, soaking it and washing out, soaking in and taking with it pale tremors of color, memory, resistance, all that stuff, until I felt like one of those pieces of cloth on the television commercials that got washed with the name-brand cleanser and is now not only white, but silky and mountain-scented.
— Alexandra Kleeman, Intimations: Stories
It is time to put down the pen; time to clear the throat. Speaking is a different thing altogether from writing. The spoken word has different properties, and different powers. If I have learned anything from writing down my own tale, it is this.
— Dexter Palmer, The Dream of Perpetual Motion
I love your loins, that's all,' Rachel says quietly. 'And now I love the word itself, and how words change, I love that too. And all the parts of you, I love them. That's all. And I'm not sad,' she whispers, gasping a little at the shock of her own tears, hot and extravagant, tears that catch the light in her lashes before they drop and roll across Zach's thighs, sparkling capsules, kaleidoscopic, the flow dynamic.
— Emma Richler, Be My Wolff
Sometimes we do not have words to explain our emotions, just a smile is enough.
— Gaurav GRV Sharma, Gaurav GRV Sharma
Knowing that God is backing up our words and actions makes us strong, firm and courageous in any trial or persecution
— Sunday Adelaja
And what's the irony?...In the end... we call the enemy friends... the fake people again friends... should I continue here with the words?
— Deyth Banger
The only substance that goes in and never leaves, are words
— Natasha Tsakos
The beauty of words!
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Words are weapons.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The wilderness is a seed of words.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
When silence greets you, listen for those powerful words lost within the void of reason...
— Virginia Alison
We fail to say the right words, because we choose to say the wrong words! We choose to say the wrong words, because we fail to think about the right words!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
We fail to say the right words, because we choose to say the wrong words! We choose to say the wrong words, because we fail to think of the right words!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
A good storyteller minces words to entertain or inspire the audience. The politicians and religious leaders do much the same, but for a different purpose - to turn otherwise normal people to nutcases.
— Vinko Vrbanic
It is certainly true that ‘actions speak louder than words,’ but words become as monuments to thoughts.
— Anton Szandor LaVey, The Satanic Bible
A thousand words blossomed to her lips and died there, because no amount of speaking could communicate the depths of how he’d affected her. Of how he’d changed her.
— Katherine McIntyre, Rising for Autumn
...his words - the gift of expression, the bewildering, the iluminating, the most exalted and the most contemptible, the pulsating stream of light or the deceitful flow from the heart of an impenetrable darkness.
— Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
Words come alive from a page or script because both the writer and actor were brave enough to neither deny or invent their truth
— Val Uchendu
Those who are arrogant and controlling are determined to cling to spoken words but peaceful hearts are unafraid to go deeper beneath the surface.
— Kate McGahan, Jack McAfghan: Return from Rainbow Bridge
Taking a deep breath, words floating through my head.
— Maite
TO VICTOR HUGO OF MY CROW PLUTO “Even when the bird is walking we know that it has wings.”—VICTOR HUGO Of: my crow Pluto, the true Plato, azzurronegro green-blue rainbow— Victor Hugo, it is true we know that the crow “has wings,” however pigeon-toe- inturned on grass. We do. (adagio) Vivorosso “corvo,” although con dizionario io parlo Italiano— this pseudo Esperanto which, savio ucello you speak too— my vow and motto (botto e totto) io giuro è questo credo: lucro è peso morto. And so dear crow— gioièllo mio— I have to let you go; a bel bosco generoso, tuttuto vagabondo, serafino uvaceo Sunto, oltremarino verecondo Plato, a
— Marianne Moore, Complete Poems
Words were numbers were codes were formulae. Words held secret maps, the measuring of paces, the patterns of mortal minds, of histories, of cities, of continents and warrens.
— Steven Erikson, Deadhouse Gates
TO A GIRAFFE If it is unpermissible, in fact fatal to be personal and undesirable to be literal—detrimental as well if the eye is not innocent-does it mean that one can live only on top leaves that are small reachable only by a beast that is tall?— of which the giraffe is the best example— the unconversational animal. When plagued by the psychological, a creature can be unbearable that could have been irresistible; or to be exact, exceptional since less conversational than some emotionally-tied-in-knots animal. After all consolations of the metaphysical can be profound. In Homer, existence is flawed; transcendence, conditional; “the journey from sin to redemption, perpetual.
— Marianne Moore, Complete Poems
ROSEMARY Beauty and Beauty’s son and rosemary— Venus and Love, her son, to speak plainly— born of the sea supposedly, at Christmas each, in company, braids a garland of festivity. Not always rosemary— since the flight to Egypt, blooming differently. With lancelike leaf, green but silver underneath, its flowers—white originally— turned blue. The herb of memory, imitating the blue robe of Mary, is not too legendary to flower both as symbol and as pungency. Springing from stones beside the sea, the height of Christ when thirty-three— it feeds on dew and to the bee “hath a dumb language”; is in reality a kind of Christmas-tree.
— Marianne Moore, Complete Poems
Curses. Jesus. It took all kinds. There wasn't anything to a curse but words. Just like blessings and prayers and all the rest of it. People used words to try to change what they should be changing with their own two hands. And if the problem was too big to fix, no words called up into the air would make a lick of difference.
— Mindy Mejia, Everything You Want Me to Be
In the days of Prismatic Colornot in the days of Adam and Eve, but when Adam was alone; when there was no smoke and color was fine, not with the refinement of early civilization art, but because of its originality; with nothing to modify it but the mist that went up, obliqueness was a variation of the perpendicular, plain to see and to account for: it is no longer that; nor did the blue-red-yellow band of incandescence that was color keep its stripe
— Marianne Moore, Complete Poems
Poetry is painting with words where you create a masterpiece by spilling your feelings and emotions onto the blank paper.
— Avijeet Das
The tongue can cut deeper than the sword or heal faster than in the ward.
— Mufti Ismail Menk
Most sincere answers are beyond words.
— Val Uchendu
Be mindful of your thoughts and words for they are the pen writing that which will manifest.
— Sanjo Jendayi
Words, Natasha thinks, should behave more like units of measure. A meter is a meter is a meter. Words shouldn't be allowed to change meanings. Who decides that the meaning has changed, and when? Is there an in-between time when the word means both things? Or a time when the word doesn't mean anything at all?
— Nicola Yoon, The Sun Is Also a Star
My Words Are For The Ones Who Get It, Rest Forget It !
— Syed Sharukh
And there he would lie all day long on the lawn brooding presumably over his poetry, till he reminded one of a cat watching birds, when he had found the word, and her husband said, "Poor old Augustus--he's a true poet," which was high praise from her husband.
— Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
Many confuse things with their names. This is a mistake. A name is only a word and a word will never be the thing itself. And, yet, names – as words – have power, not inherently, but because we give it to them.
— Roselynn Cannes, Fallen
But I am a storyteller, and that involves language, for me the English language, that wonderfully rich, complex, and ofttimes confusing tongue. When language is limited, I am thereby diminished, too.
— Madeleine L'Engle, Walking on Water: Reflections on Faith and Art
Do not give much of your fears to the knife that cuts to bring out blood. Instead, fear the unseen knife that cuts deeper than the knife you see! The unseen knife that inflicts pain in the heart and leaves its indelible footprints on our minds! The unseen knife that is sharper enough to either unite or make all things fall apart. Fear this knife: words! It can make or mar you greatly or badly!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Religion, Philosophy and life
Christmas is conceptualized with solidarity. That's nice! But let us at least be aware that it does not solve the problem. However, doing your part, it's a start. It does not have to be material help, start with a sincere and cozy hug in your loved ones.A gesture, worth more than thousand words!
— 1 Minuto na Palma da Mão
I might not say it, but I obviously show you how I feel,” she says. “Why do the words have to be so important?”“They just are,” he says, standing up and brushing off the back of his jeans. “Not because you’re saying them, but because you’re not.
— Jennifer E. Smith, Hello, Goodbye, and Everything in Between
Mark My Words, My Words In Other Words Are Not Just Words.
— Syed Sharukh
When words lose their meaning and expression, silence is the only language that heart follows, speaks and celebrates.
— Akshay Vasu
To have made a coat of words and cloaked yourself in it.
— Idra Novey, Ways to Disappear
Many words and expressions which only a matter of decades ago were considered so distastefully explicit that, were they merely to be breathed in public, the perpetrator would be shunned, barred from polite society, and in some extreme cases shot through the lungs, are now thought to be very healthy and proper, and their use in everyday speech and writing is seen as evidence of a well-adjusted, relaxed and totally un****ed-up personality
— Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything
He didn't speak much but the little he said kept me busy.
— Peter Akinti
With every line he teaches her, the world grows a little wider. She had never known before how words could sing,how a turn of phrase could unlock a window in her mind.
— Rosamund Hodge, Bright Smoke, Cold Fire
Words tell us what we, as a society, believe the world to be
— Alberto Manguel, A Reader on Reading
You are lucky to be one of those people who wishes to build sand castles with words, who is willing to create a place where your imagination can wander.
— Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
I like the feeling of words doing as they want to do and as they have to do.
— Gertrude Stein
Watch your mouth: The language we use creates the reality we experience.
— Michael Hyatt
That felt meaningful somehow, like the words on the pages ached for him to know their sorrow.
— Stephanie Kuehn, The Smaller Evil
Between the lines thoughts were felt. In a way words could never read.
— Maira Cheeda
I don't have kids or even that many friends, but if I did, I'd want my lasting impression on them to be this: Every life matters, but never one more than another. Sometimes silence holds more meaning than words. And love ... it's infinitely impossible to define, but unequivocally, without any doubt, the reason we are here.
— Jewel E. Ann, Scarlet Stone
Sleeping in the simple small cottage rather than hotels... and under the billion stars is one of the breathtaking experience... pause, breath, nothingness moment is what gives meaning to my busy existence, that life is felt in silence, in that moment when what you see before you can no longer be conveyed with words...
— El Fuego
Seek not the favours of menFor man is fickleHis favours come at a priceAnd always changeChoose carefully your friendsFor a friend today could be a foe tomorrowFor such is the way of the worldTest your friends and if they pass the musterKeep them close to youFor they will be shield to you and you themKhoiSan Book of Wisdom
— rassool jibraeel snyman
Why must we be so restricted by language, these ruined tongues! These twenty-six letters- how can that explain this agony? How could we ever endeavor to prove what we are here for- through such combinations? Death is just a word someone invented for what happens at the end of a person’s life. It’s only a word: if there was no word for it we wouldn’t be so worried!
— Annie Fisher, The Greater Picture
In the guise of frankness many people ruin their world by saying unpleasant things to friends and family. The bad words make them a bad world.
— Girdhar Joshi, Some Mistakes Have No Pardon
Books are something which by the words breaths when you stop writing it stops it's own proccess = breathing..
— Deyth Banger, Care
It cost nothing to be nice.
— Anonymous, but I'll claim it.
I like to quote Shakespeare. But in this case, the rapper Eminem said it best: Words are a motherfucker.
— Jillian Keenan, Sex with Shakespeare: Here's Much to Do with Pain, but More with Love
Words are themselves organisms, ...
— Ali Smith, Autumn
That (labyrinth)...became a world whose rules I lived by, and I understood the moral of mazes: sometimes you have to turn your back on your goal to get there, sometimes you're farthest away when you're closest, sometimes the only way is the long one. After that careful walking and looking down, the stillness was deeply moving...It was breathtaking to realize that in the labyrinth, metaphors and meanings could be conveyed spatially. That when you seem farthest from your destination is when you suddenly arrive is a very pat truth in words, but a profound one to find with your feet.
— Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust
When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in a rather scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.
— Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
Words were stories in themselves.
— Ali Smith, Public Library and Other Stories
sometimes the little words we put down are signs of the greater ones inside".
— TopsyGift
Normally, words are sentfrom the brain towards the mouth, and somewhere along the line you take a moment to checkthem, see that they are actually the ones you ordered and that they’re nicely wrapped, beforeyou bundle them on their way towards your palate and out into the fresh air.But when you’re caught up in the flow of things, the checking part of your mind can falldown on the job.
— Hugh Laurie, The Gun Seller
29. Most loneliness results from insulation rather than isolation. In other words, we are lonely because we insulate ourselves, not because others isolate us.
— James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future
Distraction is reading written word and when I seek to make distraction I write the words I wish to be enveloped in.
— Anastasia Bolinder
If words are to enter men's hearts and bear fruit, they must be the right words shaped cunningly to pass men's defenses and explode silently and effectually within their minds.
— J.B. Phillips
I still CONTINUE SAYING "Honest"... and "Honesty.." sounds like addiction to words.
— Deyth Banger
38. “A wet bird never flies at night.” (My grandfather said that to me when I was a child and warned me not to forget it. I remember his words but never did figure out what he meant!)
— James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future
Noise in the form of words'
—  that’s what life is about.
Your words are very powerful and what you say matters
—  keep them positive and powerful.
Those who don't understand your silence,Will never understand your words
— Jordan Hoechlin
Do u sometimes feel dumb or duffer are inadequate words to describe some people?How about DUMFER?
— EverSkeptic
Influence is when you are not the one talking and yet your words fill the room
—  when you are absent and yet your presence is felt everywhere.
I want to do things so wild with you that I don't know how to say them.
— Anaïs Nin, A Literate Passion: Letters of Anaïs Nin  Henry Miller, 1932-1953
An addition that takes time to depart, and sometimes, never leaves at all. A smell, a touch, thoughts, moments, feelings, movements, words left unsaid, words barely spoken; they all have a distinct sense, distinct fragrances! .... A pungent of cinnamon, an aroma of a rose, a summer breeze, a sweet smile like a per-fume that lingers on and on... endlessly.﻿
— Angie karan
There's no point in arguing with an idiot - save for exposing their stupidity in their own words.
— Christina Engela, Black Sunrise
In the right context you can make words do all kinds of things.
— China Miéville, The Last Days of New Paris
And the people who would burn the words, the people who would take the books from the shelves, the firemen and the ignorant, the ones afraid of tales and words and dreams and Hallowe'en and people who have tattooed themselves with stories and Boys! You Can Grow Mushrooms in Your Cellar! and as long as your words which are people which are days which are my life, as long as your words survive, then you lived and you mattered and you changed the world and I cannot remember your name.I learned your books. Burned them into my mind. In case the firemen come to town.
— Neil Gaiman, Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances
This assignment could damn well project all the words across my face and the ink stain my hands a gory mess before I finished it.
— Jazz Feylynn
The annihilating strokes slashed across my penned heartfelt words.
— Jazz Feylynn
It is only too evident that the invisible agitations of the kingdoms within us are arbitrarily set on foot by the thoughts we shelter. Our myriad intuitions are the veiled queens who steer our course through life, though we have no words in which to speak of them. How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words!
— Maurice Maeterlinck, The Treasure of the humble
doubters only doubt what they doubt
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Words have power.Their power doesn't merely emanate from the meaning they carry,but also hidden truth they leave behind.In what is left unsaid.
— K.J. Kilton, Trophy Life
As soon as we conform anything to language, we’ve changed it. Use a word and you’ve altered the world. The poets know this. It’s what they try so hard to avoid.
— Ethan Canin, A Doubter's Almanac
Words are not cubicles for truth telling. Words do not allow us to touch the face of God or define the contours of the soul. Words are imprecise and cannot capture all aspects of reality or replicate all facets of a person’s emotional mélange. Language allows for limited explorations of reality and minimal probing of the human mind. I accept that the only possible relation between language and the world is the image displayed in each person’s head by the picture invoking ability of language. Select word pictures might accurately portray what I perceive and still be vague, blatantly inaccurate, completely meaningless, misleading, distorted, or incomprehensible in other persons’ minds.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
I keep thinking about the fragmented quality of human awareness: You take your blindness for granted most of the time then suddenly it stuns you: how little you see as you plunge ahead from minute to minute, day to day, year to year - vision cut down to the arc of a flickering flashlight, never sure how your words and acts are affecting someone else because you never really see that someone as he is. I know we should find even the most serene life unendurable were we to possess to any real degree those extrasensory perceptions which our grandmothers believed in...
— Lillian E. Smith, One Hour
Words are powerful instruments. Handle them and your understanding level of new information will grow in a spectacular way.
— Kim Kiyosaki, Rich Woman: A Book on Investing for Women, Take Charge Of Your Money, Take Charge Of Your Life
Not everyone can understand your language like using "BTW", "BRB", "SAA" and many other such type of short words.
— Deyth Banger
Words carry oceans on their small backs.
— Lidia Yuknavitch, The Chronology of Water
Explanation is a well-dressed error.
— Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch
I guess that's the thing about betrayal
—  it holds no prejudice and preys on those who neither see it coming nor deserve it.
We are bees then
—  our honey is language.
I grow more and more intrigued by this as I write: how words, even the most carefully chosen, can mean such different things from one person to another, so that others might think about what I write in ways I did not intend at all.
— Dawn Hammill, Galiene: A Twelfth-Century Tale of Love and War
Languages for me have a secret venom that every so often foams up and for which there is no antidote.
— Elena Ferrante
The hardest things to talk about are the ones we ourselves can't understand.
— Elena Ferrante, The Lost Daughter
The most important questions are the ones we can't hope to answer with words. Words are like toys : they amuse and educate us for a time, but when we come to manhood, we should give them up.'Sunmer shakes his head.' The words are all we have,' he says.' If we give them up, we are no better than the beasts.'Otto smiles at Sunmer's wrong headedness.' Then you must find out the explanations on your own, if that is what you truly think.
— Ian McGuire, The North Water
Words are to be taken seriously. I try to take seriously acts of language. Words set things in motion.
— Toni Cade Bambara
I've never subscribed to the "words can never hurt me" point of view. Because if words can't hurt, then neither can they help or heal or inspire. Yes, words can brutalize. They can shame and scar. But people must be free to say them anyway. We protect free speech not because words are harmless, but because they are powerful.
— Brian Holguin
Words that are spoken are not TRUE,Feelings alone speak the TRUTH.
— Sarvesh Murthi .D .D
Never let anything be a set back in your life, not even your thoughts, words nor actions.
— Gugu Mona
Words are events, they do things, change things. They transform both speaker and hearer; they feed energy back and forth and amplify it
— Ursula K. Le Guin
It takes just a step to show the other side of you that you never wanted to show. It takes just a word to start the words you never wanted to say. It all begins with something and it all starts somewhere. Mind the starting point and note the beginning.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
The man who writes has an oppressive and unhappy fate. This is because the nature of his work obliges him to use words; that is, to convert his inner surge into immobility. Every word is an adamantine shell which encloses a great explosive force. To discover the meaning you must let it burst inside you like a bomb and in this way liberate the soul which it imprisons. (Report to Greco)
— N. Kazantzakis
Stay calm and exercise restrain during your most desperate moment or you shall desperately say what when your desperation is over, you shall come to a later realization of what you shouldn’t have say and notice how silence could have been the best option to mere words!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Though words are arbitrary in their primitive institution, yet when once their signification is fixed, we are no more entitled to alter it than to call a tree an elephant; for, being no man's private possession, but the common measures of commerce and communication, it is not for any one at pleasure to change the stamp they are current in; at least where there is a necessity to do so, notice of it should be given.
— Richard Kirwan, Logick; Or, an Essay on the Elements, Principles, and Different Modes of Reasoning, Volume 1
You see, I’m a juggler with words myself.
— Anonymous
Amphibians—the word comes from the Greek meaning ‘double life.
— Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
The world is alive with words
— Amy Harmon, The Bird and the Sword
Words are just words who they come from gives them relevance and this relevance gives them the power to hurt you. Make those who hurt you irrelevant.
— Wordions
Definitions are the foundation of reason. You can’t reason without them.
— Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
English can be weird. It can be understood through tough thorough thought, though.
— Anonymous.
He'd been given every word he needed, and every word had been stripped from me. I wanted them back. All of them.
— Amy Harmon, The Bird and the Sword
I am a lover of words.If your words don't play with me,nothing else in you will.
— Wordions
Kitai blinked slowly. "Why would you use the same word for these things? That is ridiculous.""We have a lot of words like that," Tavi said. "They can mean more than one thing.""That is stupid," Kitai said. "It is difficult enough to communicate without making it more complicated with words that mean more than one thing.
— Jim Butcher, Academ's Fury
To doubt the literal meaning of the words of Jesus or Moses incurs hostility from most people, but it’s just a fact that if Jesus or Moses were to appear today, unidentified, with the same message he spoke many years ago, his mental stability would be challenged. This isn’t because what Jesus or Moses said was untrue or because modern society is in error but simply because the route they chose to reveal to others has lost relevance and comprehensibility. "Heaven above" fades from meaning when space-age consciousness asks, Where is "above"? But the fact that the old routes have tended, because of language rigidity, to lose their everyday meaning and become almost closed doesn’t mean that the mountain is no longer there. It’s there and will be there as long as consciousness exists.
— Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
The road that connects our thoughts to the ears of others is our tongue. What travel on this road is our word. Our action is the energy which transmits our emotions to the eyes of others and causes a great change in their minds
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Poetry without words, you are, the beat to my hearts rhythm.
— N'Zuri Za Austin
The length of words used to explain something does not determine the quality of the thought. Yet, I tend to believe that the shorter one can say something, the better it is.
— Eric Roxas
Don't allow yourself to be fooled by how "nice" a person appears to be, measure a person's virtuousness by the way in which they treat others with their words and actions .
— Miya Yamanouchi, Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women
Some days I wonder how I'll get through a whole lifetime of thinking. A life that's just words, words, words, shuffling around in my head. Was I born that way?
— Rachel Klein, The Moth Diaries
Let us speak less and say more. ( “Words flew away like birds” )
— Erik Pevernagie
Perhaps we all said the right things at the wrong time; perhaps we couldn't help it. Perhaps words became too heavy to haul, and the moment we let them loose was always the wrong one, but they needed to be free.
— Mackenzi Lee, This Monstrous Thing
The only thing I can recall is that it rained all day and all night, and that when I asked my father whether heaven was crying, he couldn't bring himself to reply. Six years later my mother's absence remained in the air around us, a deafening silence that I had not yet learned to stifle with words.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
I was pretty good at picking up new languages when I was little, but it's not like I had superpowers or anything.Kids just have an easier time with words.
— Brian K. Vaughan, Saga, Vol. 4
People don't believe me when I tell them I'm a magician who makes portals to other worlds. So I tell them I'm a writer instead.
— Genesis Quihuis
Talking doesn't mean you have said something. What really matters is the message your words carry, not the sound, but the reveberation it causes on the soul.
— Michael Bassey Johnson, Master of Maxims
Her thoughts are full of other things just now; and people have such different ways of showing feeling: some by silence, some by words.
— Elizabeth Gaskell, Ruth
It occurred to Keth for the first time that perhaps magic wasn't simply a matter of fires, lightning, and power in the air, if spoken words could also create such a transformation.
— Tamora Pierce, Shatterglass
Tongue on your words to taste you thereCouldn’t   read what youhad never written therePlayed your message overfeeling badPlayed your message over it was all I hadTo tell me what and whereforethis is what it said:I’m tired of you asking me whyI’m tired of words like the chatter of birdsGive me a pass, let me just get by
— Adrienne Rich, Tonight No Poetry Will Serve
Rules for navigating the net, Or people will roll their eye Lest you can't roll the R rect: Literally, don´t dink and dive!
— Ana Claudia Antunes, ACross Tic
Three people I take their words with a grain of salt: a person in love, a drunk and an insurance agent. They never really mean exactly what they say.
— E. Obeng-Amoako Edmonds
In many a case, the phrase ‘I’d like to get to know you better’ is a euphemism for ‘I want us to fuck.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana
They didn't need the words, if they were willing to be silent long enough to learn to speak without them.
— Maggie Stiefvater, Forever
I've fixed my feelings into durable wordswhen they could have been spent on tenderness
— Jorge Luis Borges
If it judges your conscience, then you are in some way guilty of it by action, words or omission.
— Chinonye J. Chidolue
Words mean nothing.
— Lynn Raye Harris, Marriage Behind the Facade
You like the comfort, don't ya?You wanna be there... wanna and gonna aren't nigga words so far... you are very bad at judging so far all people will be in prison because of you.... No matter...>!~
— Deyth Banger
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words can also hurt me. Stones and sticks break only skin, while words are ghosts that haunt me. Slant and curved the word-swords fall, it pierces and sticks inside me. Bats and bricks may ache through bones, but words can mortify me. Pain from words has left its' scar, on mind and hear that's tender. Cuts and bruises have not healed, it's words that I remember.
— Ruby Redfort
A coat of paint and a quote of words both make cosmetic differences.
— Amit Abraham
Some words are wind, ser. Some are treason.
— George R.R. Martin, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms
In politics no permanent friends, no permanent enemies but permanent interest.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
Be careful how you use your words, how you build them and how people will understand them!?
— Deyth Banger
Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.
— Louis Nizer
That's very important about stories. They touch something that is human in us and is probably unchanging. Perhaps this is why the important knowledge is passed through stories. It's what holds a culture together. Culture has a story, and every person in it participates in that story. They world is made up of stories; it's not made up of facts.
— Krista Tippett, Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living
Mr. Treadstone believed that there was always an apposite word. The English language, after all, was the richest in the world. If you couldn’t find the apposite word, if you found your language slipping into the mire of vagueness and obscurity, this meant that you needed to work on your vocabulary. Because the apposite word certainly existed – and it was very eager to make your acquaintance.
— Gavin Extence, The Universe Versus Alex Woods
Words are wind, and the wind from Manderly's mouth means no more than the wind escaping his bottom.
— George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
What do you understand under positive??I understand a gentle move of a ball against the wall and it comes slow... so in other words slow it will happen what you will do in positive... The negative works fast it's fast and mad throwing the ball against the wall it will come fast. (That's how it works as for me!)
— Deyth Banger
What did the mat say to the door? You must be really aDOORable to open up to everyone who knock at you. And I welcome everyone and what do I get? People stepping all over me
— Ana Claudia Antunes, ONE HUNDRED ONE WORLD ACCOUNTS in ONE HUNDRED ONE WORD COUNT
Words are incomplete and yet we need them. They are the cups that give our memories shape, and keep them from trickling away.
— Carolina De Robertis, Perla
In that moment, I realized that no matter what words I chose and no matter how much time I spent in telling, I would never be able to express my full experience...There are some experiences that only you can enter, that only you can truly hold. They are too vast to be imparted. You cannot even hold them wholly in your arms: they spill over into the dark beyond you, brimming, shooting out in ropes of light that make you ache with loneliness and yet yoke you to the world at the same time, because the vast things that have happened to you, however terrible, were always born out of the world, and so perhaps they offer you a place even as they push you out of another, even as they weigh you down with a self that can never fully be conveyed. Though most of us will try. We make bonds, we grow trust, we tell stories; we strive to articulate what it took to become who we are. Sometimes if we're very fortunate, our listeners can catch authentic glimpses of what we mean to say, like sparks in a dark room, but never the whole of it at once, not even with the best of friends or closest lover, because the whole of it at once is beyond speaking. It lives nowhere, absolutely nowhere, except inside your skin. That's where it flares, enormous, hazardous, utterly yours.
— Carolina De Robertis, Perla
Don't confuse pressure with pleasure. For some people it"s not sure if they are having a seizure or ceasure
— Ana Claudia Antunes, The DAO (Dancing As One) Workbook Illustrated
The greatest thing about writing is that you get to shape more than one life.
— Katja Michael
What's the difference between rain and grain? Only a g, though they both grow in the land, and they don't land but fall. What a difference a g makes!
— Ana Claudia Antunes
Perhaps it's no coincidence that the word words is an anagram of sword. Well-used words cut through ambiguity and confusion like a sharp sword in the hands of an expert swordsman.
— Anu Garg
Words can change their meaning, just by repeating them.
— Deyth Banger
When you understand silence, you understand words; when you understand words, you understand silence. When you think of silence, you think of words. Until you mistakenly utter bad words, you shall never appreciate the real essence of silence that can speak better at the most tempting moment. Until you miss the opportunity when you should have spoken whilst you kept silent, you shall never value the real value and the timing of words. A good orator knows the right time and timing to blend words and silence in oration. A good orator is good because of words and silence.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Words can't be wood enough for a lot of things. But you know, I guess we have to try.
— Ava Dellaira, Love Letters to the Dead
Don't try to provoke me, you won't win because of few words... I will be just quite because you are under my level!
— Deyth Banger
One day you will be nostalgic for today.
— Lang Leav, Lullabies
Words can lie. See beyond them.
— Victoria Aveyard, Red Queen
...you cannot control the depth of a wound another inflicts upon you.
— Lang Leav, Lullabies
Words can be said easily, but one can't fake actions.
— Jewel, Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story
It was the way she looked at me the whole time. That look said more than she ever could and, in turn, scared me more than her words alone ever could.
— Anna Todd, After We Fell
You were none, and now you're all; your worth will rise, the more I fall.
— Lang Leav, Lullabies
Some pieces will sing to your present, others may echo of your past, and the rest could whisper of your future.
— Lang Leav, Lullabies
Words are only containers like a canvas holds a painting.What’s in the essence of the words you convey through the sound of your voice?
— Andrew Neff, The Mind Game Company: The Players
There is a certain quality to words that when strung in a certain way--has an almost hypnotic effect.
— Lang Leav, Lullabies
I did not know that it was love until I knew.
— Lang Leav, Lullabies
It was from a very young age that I fell in love with this wonderful artifact--the turn of the first page is almost like a sacred ritual to me. Whenever I walk into a library, it is never without some degree of reverence.
— Lang Leav, Lullabies
There are people I will never know and their lives will still ensue
—  those that could have loved me so and I'll never wonder who.
For me, that was the death of the word, or; because now, there is no other. It was the end of the word, and; for I love only you.
— Lang Leav, Lullabies
Anything and everything, the two almost the same--everything says, have it all; anything, one to claim.
— Lang Leav, Lullabies
It was like being seen after a perpetual darkness, I replied. To be heard after a lifetime of silence.
— Lang Leav, Lullabies
The word 'Terror' is so generally and universally used in connection with everyday trivial matters that it is apt to fail to convey, when intended to do so, its real meaning.
— Jim Corbett
She found as always that words on paper proved themselves
—  they were so beautifully true.
He deftly dealt his swiftest blow--I fell further than, I was meant to go.
— Lang Leav, Lullabies
Because someday, in one way or another, you will be taken from me or I you.
— Lang Leav, Lullabies
The glass bottle does not know its own contents. It has no idea whether it is a vessel for the most delicious apple cider, a lovingly crafted wine, or a bitter poison.
— Lang Leav, Lullabies
Ownership of words is the reason, only few of us truly keep and respect our words. If you won't keep yours, it's probably not yours.
— Seun Ayilara
People are so stupid, that they repeat your words and said in other words and what??(I'm stupid, so stupid that I want to repeat), I just heard that probably I have missunderstand something...(NOte- It's joke a Get it?)
— Deyth Banger
Taking a shaky breath, I spoke. “Well, recently, I learned how much my words affect people, even if it’s just one word.
— Darcy Ridge, Lucia
The sacred words penetrate the heart.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
...but how could I have stopped him from taking what was already his?
— Lang Leav, Lullabies
Sometimes you just have to choose to let things go, to move on.
— Anna Todd, After We Collided
why talk and say the unsaid words in haste when silence can speak the unspoken words?
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Lonnie's monotonous speech gives him an advantage, the same advantage foreigners have: his words are not worn out. It is like a code tapped through a wall. Sometimes he asks me straight out: do you love me? and it is possible to tap back: yes, I love you.
— Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
What good are words if no one believes them?
— Rachel L. Schade, Silent Kingdom
So blue is a name?''It is a word. Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As humans have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest of hearts. There are seven words that will make a person love you. There are ten words tat will break a strong man's will. But a word is nothing but a painting of a fire. A name is te fire itself.'My head was swimming at this point. 'I still don't understand.'He laid a hand on my shoulder. 'Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating.' He lifted his hands high above his head as if stretching for the sky. 'But there are other ways of understanding!' he shouted, laughing like a child. He threw both arms to the cloudless arch of sky above us, still lauging. 'Look!' he shouted tilting his head back. 'Blue! Blue! Blue!
— Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind
I try to think of things to say but nothing comes, and if something did come I probably couldn't say it. This is my great obstacle, the biggest of all the boulders littering my path. In my mind I am eloquent; I can climb intricate scaffolds of words to reach the highest cathedral ceilings and paint my thoughts. But when I open my mouth, it all collapses.
— Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies
Words could be quite enough for magic to occur, when the night was warm enough and the moon waxing.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Flies to Wanton Boys
The words aren't enough every time. Actions speak much more.
— Deyth Banger, The Life Of One Kid
Words define you.
— Alok Jagawat
Words; the powerful air that can change the mind, the body and the spirit in the twinkle of an eye! He who don't know words don't know life!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Distinctive Footprints of Life: Where Are You Heading Towards?
An individual who delights at all in the beauty of language does well to avoid becoming an attorney or a legislator.
— Ron Brackin
I did not want to appear before the world as pathetic, deprssed, and psychologically ill. So I erected a barrier of words and wit around myself, so that nobody could see how needy I really was.
— Karen Armstrong
My mother's journals are a shadow play with mine. I am a woman wedded to words. Words cast a shadow. Without a shadow there is no depth. Without a shadow there is no substance. If we have no shadow, it means we are invisible. As long as I have a shadow, I am alive.
— Terry Tempest Williams, When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice
Artists, especially writers, great writers, are the most honest people I know. There are deep confessions in their words. And if we're strong enough to expose the spaces between them, we find truths there also.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
No words would ever be more powerful than the presence of a friend.
— Rachel L. Schade, Silent Kingdom
love is not the expression of words and really you no need to show that when you act for them your sudden unconditional decision, work, non-sense, care shows everything.... that make them special one of your world......... Bharat Bhushan
— Bharat
Beautiful are the words, that can express the innermost thoughts.
— Alok Jagawat
Don't listen the words, hear the reason of the words.
— Tamas Lakometz
Is love always like this? Is it always so passionate, yet so damn painful?
— Anna Todd, After We Collided
Never underestimate wisdom in silence, proof isn't always a mouthful of words.
— Anthony Liccione
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me', said some idiot who,1. Didn't realize HOW much words hurt2. Wasn't so smart
— Oreo Queen
In Sanskrit words are like living beings; depending on context, circumstance and environment their mood varies and meaning differs.
— Amit Ray, Walking the Path of Compassion
I like to think of books as lovers; you have to introduce yourself slowly to them, read them one page at a time. Notice them, appreciate them. Respect what they're trying to tell you, let their words caress you, then sink into you, and finally, become a part of you.
— Stacie Hammond, Ana J. Awakens
Her words dance on the page.
— A.D. Posey
Words often outlive the people who create them.
— Amy Neftzger, The War of Words
The thoughts on the mind come out of the mouth.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The thoughts on the mind come out of mouth.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You are judge by your words
— Lailah Gifty Akita
When I sit down and write, I do it to relieve myself of the madness that burdens me so that new words can wrap me in newer, better, madness.
— George Ivanovic
I write in seconds. I don’t stop. I don’t think. I simply write and when it comes, it flows and it makes sense because it’s genuine. I don’t understand thought-out poetry. It doesn’t seem real to me.
— Dominic Riccitello
And they held on tight to that beautiful silent moment before words transported them to the realm of the ordinary, to the realm of the inarticulate and mundane.
— Sarah Winman, A Year of Marvellous Ways
Sometimes the most appropriate response to an attack is to not engage, especially in situations where your own words may be used as weapons against you.
— Amy Neftzger, The War of Words
Writers are people whose words speak louder than their actions.
— Shon Mehta
A Writer in Love.I was just a word weaverWhat did I know of love?Only thatSome days when the words weren’t enough,I knewI was in love.
— Saiber, Stardust and Sheets
Feelings are not controllable," I retorted, "They are not thoughts or words. They are invisible emotions you cannot control no matter how bad you try.
— Ariana Godoy, Growing Up
I choose to choose few words each day. Yes! few words that count. Few words that can make impact. Few words that talk much. Few words that can make people ponder to wonder. Few words that are indelible. Few words that can leave distinctive footprints on minds. Though we may fail to mind our words, we shall never fail to mind the works of our words.
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Things are set up as contraries that are not even in the same category. Listen to me: the opposite of radical is superficial; the opposite of liberal is stingy; the opposite of conservative is destructive. Thus I will describe myself as a radical conservative liberal; but certain of the tainted red fish will swear that there can be no such fish as that. Beware of those who use words to mean their opposites. At the same time have pity on them, for usually this trick is their only stock in trade. But do not pity them overly, it is your own death and your soul's death that they work by their deception.
— R.A. Lafferty
Only cowards leave words unspoken.
— A.D. Posey
Be the voice of night and Florida in my ear.Use dusky words and dusky images.Darken your speech.Speak, even, as if I did not hear you speaking,But spoke for you perfectly in my thoughts,Conceiving words,As the night conceives the sea-sounds in silence,And out of their droning sibilants makesA serenade.
— Wallace Stevens, The Collected Poems
The power of classical music turns my words into fire.
— A.D. Posey
Be careful what you say and do around a writer
—  your words and actions may become material.
I fight evil, and words are my weapons of choice.
— A.D. Posey
We live in a world where words are as meaningless as a snowflake in a blizzard
— Hiba Fatima Ahmad
The path you create for yourself is the mark you leave behind when you’re gone from this world. All beauty and angst is stopped by the grave. But your words, your laughter, your faith, and spirit, refuse to die with you. They remain in the hearts and minds of those you touched.
— Eric Onyango Otieno, Touring My Mind
I have written all the 406 pages of my book in Swahili words. Even the countries are in Swahili. Instead of 'Nigeria', for example, I have written 'Nijeria'. That is how it is written in the Swahili dictionary. This can seem as a minor detail and that people may find my mission close to ridiculous! However, single letters and commas matter.
— Enock Maregesi
Sometimes, you need to spit stuff out in words to get it better arranged in your head. I figure if you never talk about it, it just picks its own spot and lays there and festers.
— Dan Groat, An Enigmatic Escape: A Trilogy
Often someone else's words can provoke us to memories both painful and sweet, and remind us of things we should have learned, but sometimes forget.
— Mary Morrell, Things My Father Taught Me About Love
The answer is no," said Melody firmly. “Undeniably, indisputably, categorically no.
— Sarah Weeks, Honey
Stop apologizing and censoring yourself, you have every right to feel the way you do. Your feelings, your struggles, your emotions are all valid.
— Jasmine Sandozz
Love writes without words.
— A.D. Posey