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No comment" is a comment so I never really understood.
— Lily O'Brien
Those extra letters dangling at the ends of words are the genitalia of grammar.
— Mary Norris, Between You  Me: Confessions of a Comma Queen
At the gates of Heaven, if you had the chance to plead your case before Jesus, what will you say? Say nothing because your words cannot save you. John 3:16
— Felix Wantang, Face to Face Meetings with Jesus Christ 3: Revealing the End of the Age
Like so many colours, like so many flavours, like so many fragrance, English grammar should be a personal choice.
— Megha Khare, Write like no one is reading 2
The church trembled and the hail hammered the roof, but his words glided in the air, joyful and bright like the birds at the cliffs. They floated freely around one another without colliding and the wind carried them high up into heaven.
— Fridik Erlings
Words were only an approximation of meaning. The meaning escaped between the words, dissolved, disappeared, like fog fading away between iron bars.
— Charlotte Lamb, Abduction
Sometimes words do fly in the sky but when words do fly in the sky, there are no keyboards to type.
— Rigzin Namgyal
But words mattered, more so in Newark than many other places. In a world where income and possessions were limited, words represented dignity, pride, self-worth.
— Jeff Hobbs, The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League
...Newspapers, popular fiction, and magazines churned out words by the million, and the worn coins of everyday speech were less and less able to communicate anything more than the most commonplace meanings....
— Lachman Gary Larkin Steve, The Dedalus Book of the Occult: A Dark Muse
A man's words will always express what has been treasured in his heart.
— Luke 6:45
sometimes i wake upin the middleof the nightand findpoetry splatteredall over my bed.
— Sanober  Khan
i am alwaysstalking you, my dear. with my thoughtsmy words.my breath.
— Sanober  Khan
Poems are invisible flowers on my skin.
— Sanober  Khan
Women's Tongues are as sharp as two-edged Swords, and wound as much, when they are anger'd.
— Margaret Cavendish
Books are readable drugs.
— Carla H. Krueger
Why write? Life is a cage of empty words.
— Miriam Elia, The Diary of Edward the Hamster 1990–1990
Once upon a time the fairy tales begin. But then they end and often you don't know really what has happened, what was meant to happen, you only know what you've been told, what the words suggest.
— Joyce Carol Oates, The Mammoth Book of Modern Ghost Stories
The sky was like ebony and the only illumination was the harsh white light of the central streetlamp, which cast shadows so hard it seemed you might cut yourself on them.
— Jasper Fforde, Shades of Grey
…although her mouth uttered fond words, her eyes spoke only venom.
— Jasper Fforde, Shades of Grey
She had large, questioning eyes that seemed to draw me in and a sense of quiet outrage that simmered just beneath the surface. More than anything, within her features, there was a streak of wild quirkiness that made her dazzlingly attractive.
— Jasper Fforde, Shades of Grey
For myself, I favored the abstract. I collected not just obsolete terms and words, but ideas.
— Jasper Fforde, Shades of Grey
Lord Vetinari in a meeting: “what people said was what they wanted him to hear. He paid a lot of attention to the spaces outside the words, though. That’s where the things were that they hoped he didn’t know and didn’t want him to find out.
— Terry Pratchett
Clara Winter," he said. "You are a word person and don't ever forget it."He was right. He knew. He could tell. It's something that can be sensed. There's a difference between word-people and non-word-people.
— Alison McGhee, Shadow Baby
... she had uttered these words simply in order to provoke a reply in certain other words, which she seemed, indeed, to wish to hear spoken, but, from prudence, would let her friend be the first to speak.
— Marcel Proust, Swann's Way
…the way people understood things had a lot to do with the way people were, how they had been shaped, what the wanted; tricks of rhetoric would not shift them.
— Ian McEwan, The Child in Time
The best sword that kills without a wound:-WORDS...!Killed without Trace...
— Rishi Sethi
Some things should never be said. Not out loud in clear, simple words. You talk around them. You leave gaps and blanks. You use other words and talk in curves and arcs for the worst things because you need to keep them like mist. Words are dangerous. Like a spell, if you name the mist, call out all of the words that describe it sharp and clear, you turn it solid, into something that no one should ever hold in their hands. Better that it stays like water, slipping between your fingers.
— Alexia Casale
Words without thought is just that,words...
— Faruk DML
The Best Sword that Kills without a Wound:- Words...!
— Rishi Sethi
Another one of your quippy japes?
— Jasper Fforde, Shades of Grey
Rouge of my heart, intertwined with double-hued destiny,Thread of my thoughts, constant and rubicund legacy,Filament of my future, endeared unto my expectation,Cord of my emotion, seared with eternal elation.
— Jasper Fforde, Shades of Grey
My words are not a form of free advice. They are born through my journey called life!
— Trishna Damodar
for we all have our own twilights and mistsand abyssesto return to.
— Sanober  Khan, A Thousand Flamingos
some words bring warmthjust bybeing next to each other.
— Sanober  Khan
what ismore beautifultears, in someone’s eyesfor meor in my eyesfor them.
— Sanober  Khan, A touch, a tear, a tempest
ahthOOn SSyng!" I said. "That's farewell.""It sounds evil.""It is," I answered, and we parted.
— Gail Carson Levine, Ella Enchanted
Are you one of those people who uses words more for the sound than for the sense of them?
— Dean Koontz
Writing is a lifelong disease. Once contracted, the only prescription is to write constantly in whatever form to express your condition, in whatever construction to carry your words beyond you.
— J.R. Tompkins
Once words have been said there is no way to un-say them
— Federico Chini, The Sea Of Forgotten Memories
Your efforts extend like ripples on the ocean, much further than you know.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
Sometimes my hand starts to burn and I am convinced we are writing the same word at the same moment.
— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
When words lose the value... nothing is left!
— honeya
Once I came across two ideographs for the word "love." The first contained the root words "heart" and "hand" and "action"-love as hands and heart in action together. The other ideograph, for "passionate love," was formed of "heart," "to tell," and "a long thread.
— Joy Kogawa
The only words free of suspicious motives will be the ones I find in books.
— Michelle Moran, Rebel Queen
Sticks and stones may break your bones but words will never hurt. Lies. Words hurt. The words we remember. Well, the hurt feeling the words caused stays with us forever.
— Jill Telford
The only way to change the world is to quit thinking it's a job for Superman. Real power lies in your own hands.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
Your mind is definitely not meant to entertain and shelter any thought that goes against your positive desires. You should always be on guard against all self-defeating thoughts and words.
Oratory should raise your heart rate. Oratory should blow the doors off the place.
— Aaron Sorkin
We say no more on the matter and she asks me to help her find a word, an adjective to qualify something that falls on mankind, although not necessarily something of a meteorological nature, like rain, but a word associated with the apocalypse of the human soul and heart, but not in any direct way, more indirectly, like rain in the soul and nature oozing tears, she explains to me. Something like the smell of a birch tree in the rain, just one word. The obstetrician claims that no word could encompass that much, no single word could ever be that big.
— Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir
Since I stopped writing, I read more than ever. Other people's words, not my own--my words are gone.
— Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places
wordslike mysterious mermaids come and live permanentlyin the soft sweepsand scars of my skin.
— Sanober  Khan
How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!
— Samuel Adams
I have a sort of . . . thing, I suppose, for certain words. They spark inside me, somehow, turning me to touchpaper, but I don't know what they are until someone says them.
— Alexis  Hall, Waiting for the Flood
Kipster is a perfectly valid word,” Wendy argued, about to write down her score on the little notepad that had come with the game. “Okay, so what does it mean?” Mandy wanted to know. Wendy struggled to come up with an answer, and finally just changed the subject with school gossip. Mandy found herself just ignoring it… it always sounded the same, the same events, same rumors, same secrets, same affairs, but never anything of interest to her.“Well Sarah’s on drugs again and that’s why she did it in Mario’s backseat, but now she might be pregnant, oh, and that messed-up Seth kid’s been cutting himself again so he was sent away to Halifax last week, and there’s a festival in Wolfville but Kathy won’t go because Audrey-Rose is going to be there and they hate each other, and….”Mandy had learned two years ago to detach herself from gossip; she’d learned it from Jud’s death. Wendy may have been eighteen years old but she could be immature on the best of days.
— Rebecca McNutt, Smog City
Words have value; what is of value in words is meaning. Meaning has something it is pursuing, but the thing that it is pursuing cannot be put into words and handed down.
— Zhuangzi, The Complete Works of Chuang Tzu
The real trouble is this: giving expression to thought by the observable medium of words is like the work of the silkworm. In being made into silk, the material achieves its value. But in the light of day it stiffens; it becomes something alien, no longer malleable. True, we can then more easily and freely recall the same thought, but perhaps we can never experience it again in its original freshness.
— Erwin Schrödinger, My View of the World
Any punishment is an insult to the crime
— Nathan Filer, The Shock of the Fall
Joy lurks in every mundane thing, just waiting to be found. Love is impervious to reason. And words are wonderful.
— Anna Lyndsey
It is not in words that I should wish my life to be distinguished, but rather in things done.
— Sophocles, The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigone
I love the way he says my name. With the elegance and utmost respect of a King, just before he bows to his Queen.
— M.J. Abraham
Crash studied her. Sometimes he seemed to understand her silence better than her words.
— T.L. Shreffler, Ferran's Map
There was so much to say that we said nothing.
— Philip Schuyler Allen
They were the kind of words you read back and every lettered limb surprises you because you never knew you really felt those things the whole time.
— Hannah Brencher, If You Find This Letter: My Journey to Find Purpose Through Hundreds of Letters to Strangers
No one really knows what words mean these days.
— Mark Doten, The Infernal
Words, one may argue, are such a drag, useless - don't think it too much, just do it. And no - I agree - over-thinking is a curse, but it is without words when I over-think, when I over-burn neurons. With words, things find their place. I've said this to myself a million times.
— Lange Weile, Pressure
Be less generous with your advice: live it instead. It is a bad situation when someone with a coughing fit attempts to sell a cough mixture. After all, action speaks far louder than words; living the example is the best advice you can ever give. Only examples have children.
— Nana Awere Damoah, Through the Gates of Thought
Words are cheap but they gain greater worth when they first minister to the speaker of the same.
— Nana Awere Damoah, Through the Gates of Thought
And you never fall behind?”“Of course I do. But I always feel guilty when that happens. After all, my journal is the oldest and most loyal friend I have. And it never interrupts me when I’m speaking,” he added, with a boyish grin.
— Zack Love, The Syrian Virgin
It is more blessed to give than to receive”, the Bible advocates. When it comes to advice, I humbly submit that it is more blessed to avail yourself of it, utilise it, apply it yourself, before you give it. Put it to use first before suggesting it to someone else.
— Nana Awere Damoah, Through the Gates of Thought
i would rather havefeelings without wordsthan words without feelings.
— Sanober  Khan
Too many people say something when they really have nothing to say.
— Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave
You don't realize how language actually interferes with communication until you don't have it, how it gets in the way like an overdominant sense. You have to pay much more attention to everything else when you can't understand the words. Once comprehension comes, so much else falls away. You then rely on their words, and words aren't always the most reliable thing.
— Lily King, Euphoria
Just as the earth that bears the man who tills and digs it, to bear those who speak ill of them, is a quality of the highest respect.
— Thiruvalluvar, Thirukkural
Letters are meaningless unless put together correctly. Words are worthless unless backed by truth. Sentences are handed out and judged accordingly, but only genuinely honest men or women can create writings that change the world forever.
— Paul Morabito, Mirrored Voices: Emerging Poets Anthology
I learned to swallow words back, hold secrets on my tongue until they dissolved like soap bubbles.
— Lauren Oliver, Rooms
Uttering foul words, while there are the sweetest of words, is like going for the unripe fruits while there are a lot of ripe ones.
— Thiruvalluvar, Thirukkural
Speak so polite with people that your ill wishers become your well wishers.
— Raaz Ojha
The word of lust touches the body, the word of love touches the soul: feed the soul and starve the body.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
The integrity of our relationships matters more than the boldness of our words.
— Rosaria Champagne Butterfield, The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert: An English Professor's Journey Into Christian Faith
It was words and reading that had made me quiet, and being quiet had made me a mark.
— Charles M. Blow, Fire Shut Up in My Bones
A man of few words will rarely be thoughtless in his speech
—  he will measure every word.
If she had some level of theism, we might have a shared theological root from which I could shape holy words.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
Whatever is language is poetic language and if the word required by the poet does not exist in his known language then it is up to him to discover it.
— Lenore Kandel, Collected Poems of Lenore Kandel
And so we must dig in to see where raw words and fundamental sounds are buried so that the great silence within can finally be decoded.
— Raymond Federman, To Whom it May Concern
Reciting from rote seems a terrible way to honor the gods and a precise killing of the power of the words.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
You will never have confidence in your prayers if you fail to be prudent with your words.
— Neil Kennedy, Speaking The Father's Blessing: 52 Blessings and 365 Promises To Speak Over Your Children
When you don’t cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life that was lost a long time ago when humanity, instead of using thought, became possessed by thought. A depth returns to your life. Things regain their newness, their freshness. And the greatest miracle is the experiencing of your essential self as prior to any words, thoughts, mental labels and images.
— Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
My words will be my legacy, etched in heartfelt honesty upon the pages of time.
— Callum McLaughlin, Seeking Solace
When your words enter the material world in the form of ink or on screen, you are immediately afforded the opportunity to judge their worth.
— Chris Matakas, #Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times
There are greater things to be achieved in every new year, and each and everyone must prepare themselves to be great, not by words of the mouth, but by alot of sacrifices.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
I have learned and dismantled all the words in order to draw from them asingle word: Home.
— Mahmoud Darwish, Unfortunately, It Was Paradise: Selected Poems
You do not need words to tell the truth.
— Mia Hollow
For a long time, she sat and saw.She had seen her brother die with one eye open, on still in a dream. She had said goodbye to her mother and imagined her lonely wait for a train back home to oblivion. A woman of wire had laid herself down, her scream traveling the street, till it fell sideways like a rolling coin starved of momentum. A young man was hung by a rope made of Stalingrad snow. She had watched a bomber pilot die in a metal case. She had seen a Jewish man who had twice given her the most beautiful pages of her life marched to a concentration camp. And at the center of all of it, she saw the Fuhrer shouting his words and passing them around.Those images were the world, and it stewed in her as she sat with the lovely books and their manicured titles. It brewed in her as she eyed the pages full to the brims of their bellies with paragraphs and words.
— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
There is no surer or more illuminating way of reading a man's character, and perhaps a little of his past history, than by observing the contexts in which he prefers to use certain words.
— Owen Barfield, History in English Words
Sometimes I go to the beach and stand facing the wind, which I wish were icy, colder than we know it in these parts. I wish it would blow all the hackneyed words, all the insipid habits of language out of me so that I could come back with a cleansed mind, cleansed of the banalities of the same talk.
— Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon
I often feel an aversion, even disgust at the same words written and spoken over and over – at the same expressions, phrases, and metaphors repeated. And the worst is, when I listen to myself I have to admit that I too endlessly repeat the same things. They’re so horribly frayed and threadbare, these words, worn out by constant overuse. Do they still have any meaning?
— Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon
Writers possess magic. It's in their w
— Richelle E. Goodrich
He was going to punish me now. He couldn't beat me up with his old man fists, but he could hurt me with his old man words.
— Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
Beneath the uniformity that unites us in communication there is a chaotic personal diversity of connections, and, for each of us, the connections continue to evolve. No two of us learn our language alike, nor, in a sense, does any finish learning it while he lives.
— Willard Van Orman Quine
We want words to do more than they can. We try to do with them what comes to very much like trying to mend a watch with a pickaxe or to paint a miniature with a mop; we expect them to help us to grip and dissect that which in ultimate essence is as ungrippable as shadow. Nevertheless there they are; we have got to live with them, and the wise course is to treat them as we do our neighbours, and make the best and not the worst of them.
— Samuel Butler, The Note Books of Samuel Butler
I belong to clever words and bedtime storieseven a good riddle or twoI belong to the sound of musicand dance to my own rhythmI belong to the sunlight on a chilly autumn daywhen the world awaits a new beginningI belong by the shore under a star-filled skywith the ocean caressing my feetI belong everywhere.And anyway I please.
— M.J. Abraham
Words only make sense when someone who says them does.
— Christian Rwynn
Words only make sense when the person who says them means a lot.
— Christian
Sometimes when I'm writing, I wonder if the words have a mind of their own, and if they're really just using me as a puppet to manifest themselves.
— Travis J. Dahnke, Write like no one is reading
This is what is called speaking. I believe that is the term. When words come out, fly into the air, live for a moment, and die. Strange, is it not? I myself have no opinion. No and no again. But still, there are words you will need to have. There are many of them. Many millions, I think. Perhaps only three or four. Excuse me. But I am doing well today. So much better than usual. If I can give you the words you need to have, it will be a great victory. Thank you. Thank you a million times over.
— Paul Auster
Not everything needs to be said. The silences, the words that aren’t spoken, lead us to the questions we should be asking.
— David Powning, The Ground Will Catch You
Words are potential weapons so use them wisely.
— Joanne Madeline Moore, Love and Sex Signs: Venus, Mars and Astrology
I wanted to tell the book thief many things, about beauty and brutality. But what couldI tell her about those things that she didn't already know? I wanted to explain that I am constantly overestimating and underestimating the human race - that rarely do I ever simply estimate it. I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and so glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant.None of those things, however, came out of my mouth.All I was able to do was turn to Liesel Meminger and tell her the only truth I truly know. I said it to the book thief and I say it now to you.I am haunted by humans.
— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
Never let the words of discouragement from others sway you away from reaching far with your dreams.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
Never write when you are not in the mood; when you are not feeling it. If the words do not flow freely, and come to you almost magically, then put it down and do not force yourself to write in the book, or it will reflect in your writing and it will be terribly obvious.
— Wayne Hoss, A Sermon to Remember by Wayne Hoss: The Truth Shall Set You Free!
Once you let in the word, once you allow it to take root, it will spread like a mold through all of your corners and dark spaces— and with it, the questions, the shivery, splintered fears, enough to keep you permanently awake.
— Lauren Oliver, Pandemonium
The next time you wish you could find the right words to say to someone who is hurting, just remember that dogs are a man's best friend without ever speaking a word to them. Simply be present and have sympathy.
— Ashly Lorenzana
I wish many things, but I wish I had been able to tell you that I love you, in so many more ways than that word can convey in Alben.
— Kiersten White, Illusions of Fate
It's funny how that works. Sometimes not speaking says more than all the words in the world. Sometimes my silence is saying, I don't know how to speak to you. I don't know what you're thinking. Talk to me. Tell me everything you've ever said. All the words. Starting from your very first one.
— Colleen Hoover, Ugly Love
Each word, as someone once wrote, contains the universe.The visible carries all the invisible on its back. Tonight, in the unconditional, what moves in the long-limbed grasses, what touches me As though I didn’t exist? What is it that keeps on moving, a tiny pillar of smoke Erect on its hind legs, loose in the hollow grasses? A word I don’t know yet, a little word, containing infinity, Noiseless and unrepentant, in sift through the dry grass.
— Charles Wright, A Short History of the Shadow: Poems
Letter make words. Words make stories. And stories can be changed with strong enough magic.
— Joan Holub, Rapunzel Cuts Loose
A witch relied too much on words ever to go back on them.
— Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites
But I'll tell you more about that later... or maybe I won't, because some wounds just don't heal even if you talk them out. On the contrary, the more you dress them up in words, the more they bleed.
— Subcomandante Marcos
Jackson," he mused. "Not a name either one of you was born to."Lizzie answered, "No. But beyond a certain point, names become accessories. We swap them out as needed, for the sake of peace. You understand?""I understand. Though I disagree. Names aren't hats to change a look, or a suit to be swapped at a whim. Words mean things.""Then we must agree to disagree.
— Cherie Priest, Maplecroft
Words stick, even when we don't want them to.
— Carrie Arcos, Out of Reach
Words are clothes that thoughts wear
— Samuel Butler
There are words, which should leave unspoken, and the true value of a man lies in the words the he has for not saying.
— Alireza Salehi Nejad
A thought can prompt. Words can stir. But it takes action to attain a dream.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
The thing is to sift outthe important sounds, little syllables and vowels that bringhints of their lost words, and not to mistake the fossil forthe life, or the kiss for the love, not to mistake the fragmentfor the sentence.
— Richard Jackson, Out of Place
Music had stirred him like that. Music had troubled him many times. But music was not articulate. It was not a new world, but rather an other chaos, that it created in us. Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Words, then, are born of worlds. But they also take us places we can’t go: Constantinople and Mars, Valhalla, the Planet of the Apes. Language comes from what we’ve seen, touched, loved, lost. And it uses knowable things to give us glimpses of what’s not. The Word, after all, is God.
— Alena Graedon, The Word Exchange
Integrity is a life where your beliefs and intentions are aligned with your words and actions.
— Stephen Lovegrove, How to Find Yourself, Love Yourself, & Be Yourself: The Secret Instruction Manual for Being Human
Words never change. What changes is how one interprets them.
— Marty Rubin
Words are a lens to focus one’s mind.
— Ayn Rand
Words don’t always work. Sometimes they come up short. Conversations can lead to conflict. There are failures of diplomacy. Some differences, for all the talk in the world, remain irreconcilable. People make empty promises, go back on their word, say things they don’t believe. But connection, with ourselves and others, is the only way we can live.
— Alena Graedon, The Word Exchange
Language may have limits. But it isn’t just a dim likeness in a mirror. Yes, gestures, glances, touches, taps on walls mean something. So do silences. But sometimes the word is the thing. The bridge. Sometimes we only know what we feel once it’s been said. Words may be daughters of the earth instead of heaven. But they’re not dim. And even in the faintest shimmer, there is light.
— Alena Graedon, The Word Exchange
The Wrods We Sepak Ifnlucne Waht We See Ifnlucne The Atconis We Tkae Gvies Us The Rseluts We Get...The Words We Speak Influence What We See Influences The Actions We Take Gives Us The Results We Get!
— Roger James McDonald
Words are confessions of your actions. Choose them wisely.
— Anum Sattar
We all have a place within us, that would like to rewrite the way our life was written out for us....That's why people want to become authors.
— Tracie Molton
A kiss is just a kiss, were words not expressed by a man tied naked to a tree.
— Dixie Waters
They say actions speak louder than words, but in some cases, words hurt a lot more than actions ever could.
— Jessamine Verzosa, 548 Heartbeats
Distance and time might keep people apart, but the heart and mind will always stay connected by memories, miracles and the power of two unlikely souls that were destined to meet.
— Shannon L. Alder
THoughts have unique beauties, you will never be able to express it in words.
— Debasish Mridha
I couldn't believe a man had written this! Ryker had a way with words and the way with words and the way my emotions got twisted in them was a gift only a true writer possessed.
— Sarah Brocious, Provocation: a lesson in trust
When our thoughts, our words, and our deeds are for happiness then we are happy.
— Debasish Mridha
I'm the wave pushed by the wind, always receding before reaching the shore.
— H.U.
Where the bodily presence is weak and the speech contemptible, surely there cannot be error in making written language the medium of better utterance than faltering lips can achieve?
— Charlotte Brontë, Villette
Before I spoke with people, I did not think of all these things because there was no one to bother to think them for. Now things just come out of my mouth which are true.
— Bernard Pomerance, The Elephant Man
The weakest link in any chain of security is not the technology itself, but the person operating it; iron gates have no compassion to appeal to, nor fears to exploit, nor insecurities to use to one’s advantage. They are, however, operated by us – by beings of unlimited vulnerability and limited energy. Why waste time brute-forcing what can be easily circumvented by a clever façade and a crimson tongue?
— A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
Words give inspiration, nothing more. You want redemption? The very thing you seek inspiration for? Fight for it like your life depended on it, because it always does.
— A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
Wagamama. Text messaging aficionados might like to note that this is one of the most satisfying words you can possibly type.
— Danny Wallace
There is something talismanic about familiar words.
— Marcel Theroux, Strange Bodies
The fly lands on the swatter.The movie runs backwardsand catches fire in the projector.This species apes us wellby talking only about itself
— Billy Collins, The Apple that Astonished Paris
Writers are like tricksters. Their words lure us to embark on journeys and unlock our emotions.
— Ogwo David Emenike
It is the crimson tongue that paints the world others think they see.
— A.J. Darkholme, Rise of the Morningstar
Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and the virtuous.
— Abdelkader Djezairi
Words are powerless when confronted by catastrophe; they're pitiable, wretched, and easily distorted
— Aharon Appelfeld
A writer leads a hyphenated-life with words
— Munia Khan
I love these words that just can't be translated from language to language. They seem dignified, grounded, battling against the imperialism of reality.
— Olivier Magny
After all, when you come across the word prothalamium and find it means a preliminary nuptial song and a yaffle is a green woodpecker-well, I ask you! You cannot let matters rest there-or can you? Peradventure you will develop into lexicomaniacs.
— E. Norman Torry
-Why are you so sad? - Because you speak to me in words and I look at you with feelings.
— Leo Tolstoy
Writing is an abstract art of drawing pictures of the conscious and subconscious mind with words.
— Debasish Mridha
Thoughts have unique beauties you will never able to express it in words.
— Debasish Mridha
Eye contact is way more intimate than words will ever be.
— Faraaz Kazi
Embrace all emotions: sadness, happiness, sorrow, hate, love, prejudice, fear; they are weapons against our greatest enemy: indifference.
— Dave Matthes, Wanderlust and the Whiskey Bottle Parallel: Poems and Stories
Writing is the dancing of words, sometimes it is beautiful and meaningful, sometimes it is not.
— Debasish Mridha
Despite her words about letting go, melancholy washed over her. Because words are easy and often thrown around with trite intentions.
— A. Lynn, Itsy's Ugly
Be careful of what we say or do on this earth as every word and every action has a return.
— Aisha Mirza
Tears are the words that the heart could not express, silent truths the eyes do confess.
— Aisha Mirza
You prove to people that you don’t pay attention to their words when they see that you don’t remember what they tell you earlier.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
Perhaps then one reason why we have no great poet, novelist or critic writing today is that we refuse to allow words their liberty. We pin them down to one meaning, their useful meaning: the meaning which makes us catch the train, the meaning which makes us pass the examination.
— Virginia Woolf, The Death of the Moth and Other Essays
The arrow belongs not to the archer when it has once left the bow
—  the word no longer belongs to the speaker when it has once passed his lips.
I write to taste life twice; to savour the flavour of sweet times gone by, or spit out the bitterness before it multiplies.
— Aisha Mirza
Anyone that says his mind will be probably regarded a fool, but the true artist is not moved by the comments about the looks of his painting or remarks that are dreadfully sarcastic, but hearken now! That he who says what others want to hear hasn't said anything of his own.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Another deserted sentence. Another side effect of death. Words go AWOL.
— Daisy Whitney, When You Were Here
She thought of all the words that went unspoken in the world, throughout time: what happened to them, where did they go? What would happen if they were all spoken? How different would the world be then?
— Livi Michael, Succession
In prayer, God doesn’t want your words, he wants your heart. He doesn’t track your eloquence, he treasures your soul.
— Todd Stocker
Words are great, but even I can admit they have certain short-comings. No word can ever give justice to a smile from a man who never smiled or to an old woman who gives up her seat on the bus to a soldier who lost his leg. And I’m still convinced there’s no word out there for the feeling you get the first time you ever hit home plate or bury your first dog or muster up enough courage to tell a girl you love her.
— Laura     Miller, By Way of Accident
A metaphor is not an ornament. It is an organ of perception. Through metaphors, we see the world as one thing or another.
— Neil Postman
In the shade of words sits life itself.
— Aisha Mirza
When you speak, your words echo only across the room or down the hall. but when you write, your words echo down the ages.
— Bud Gardner, Chicken Soup for the Writer's Soul: Stories to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit of Writers
People don't like to wait for words, they want the words to wait for them.
— Therese May
Talk to strangers politely. You don’t how many of them will become your close companions.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
I love that word. Forever. I love that forever doesn't exist, but we have a word for it anyway, and use it all the time. It's beautiful and doomed.
— Viv Albertine, Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys
A man of words and not of deeds, Is like a garden full of weeds.
— Benjamin Franklin, Fart Proudly: Writings of Benjamin Franklin You Never Read in School
Why do people who can talk right waste so many words saying nothing?
— Vince Vawter, Paperboy
Well, it's really no use our talking in the way we have been doing if the words we use mean something different to each of us...and nothing.
— Malcolm Bradbury, Eating People is Wrong
Powerful words that penetrate the psyche are not forgotten while silence is.
— Donna Lynn Hope
im the type of talkactive person, but once im silent. that only have two things,first ; im falling in love,second ; I hate Liar.they could be both ; yes im falling in love with a Liar.
— anne idris
There will be more words written on Twitter in the next two years than contained in all books ever printed.
— Christian Rudder, Dataclysm: Who We Are
What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself.
— Mary GrandPré
How long does one have to live before one can no longer be fooled by words?
— Marty Rubin
One of the difficulties of thinking clearly about anything is that it is almost impossible not to form our ideas in words which have some previous association for us; with the result that our thought is already shaped along certain lines before we have begun to follow it out. Again, a word may have various meanings, and our use of it in one sense may deceive our readers (or even ourselves) into supposing that we were using it in some other sense.
— A.A. Milne, Peace With Honour
Don’t rush to justify yourself with a verbal argument
—  your choice of words may unmake what you made.
Display politeness and frankness always both in action and conversation. Don’t keep engaging in useless arguments. It scares your dreams away. Talk sensibly.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Shaping the dream
The sound of the words as they're said is always different from the sound they make when they're heard, because the speaker hears some of the sound from the inside
— David Levithan, Every Day
We Are The Salt Of The Earth, We should Add Godly Flavour to People's Lives via Our Words
— Jaachynma N.E. Agu, The Best Option
Drop a pebble in the water: just a splash, and it is gone;But there's half-a-hundred ripples circling on and on and on, Spreading, spreading from the center, flowing on out to the sea. And there is no way of telling where the end is going to be.Drop a pebble in the water: in a minute you forget,But there's little waves a-flowing, and there's ripples circling yet, And those little waves a-flowing to a great big wave have grown; You've disturbed a mighty river just by dropping in a stone.Drop an unkind word, or careless: in a minute it is gone;But there's half-a-hundred ripples circling on and on and on. They keep spreading, spreading, spreading from the center as they go, And there is no way to stop them, once you've started them to flow.Drop an unkind word, or careless: in a minute you forget,But there's little waves a-flowing, and there's ripples circling yet, And perhaps in some sad heart a mighty wave of tears you've stirred, And disturbed a life was happy ere you dropped that unkind word.Drop a word of cheer and kindness: just a flash and it is gone; But there's half-a-hundred ripples circling on and on and on, Bearing hope and joy and comfort on each splashing, dashing wave Till you wouldn't believe the volume of the one kind word you gave.Drop a word of cheer and kindness: in a minute you forget;But there's gladness still a-swelling, and there's joy a-circling yet, And you've rolled a wave of comfort whose sweet music can be heard Over miles and miles of water just by dropping one kind word.
— James W. Foley
Spiritual activity, education, civilization, culture, the idea are all vague, indefinite concepts, under the banner of which it is quite convenient to use words that have a still less clear meaning and therefore can easily be plugged into any theory.
— Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
It pleases him how Spell is how the word is made but also, in the hands of the magician, how the world is changed. One letter separates Word from World, and that letter is like the number one, or an 'I', or a shaft of light between almost closed curtains. There is an old letter called a thorn, which jags and tears at the throat as it's uttered. Later he learns that Grammar and Glamour share the same deeper root, which is further magic, and there can be neither magic without that root, nor plant. He's lost in it like Chid in Child, or God reversed into Dog. Somewhere inside him is a colon. A sentence can last for life.
— Charles Lambert, With a Zero at its Heart
With hand gestures, you can fill in a lot of gaps, and the words thing and stuff and -ness also help: patientness instead of patience, fastness instead of speed, honestness instead of honesty. With these choices, many words can be indicated, and pointing or gesticulating usually works.
— Aimee Bender, The Color Master: Stories
I don't even like the word ‘indoors’. It doesn’t make sense. According to you right now, by stepping through the doorway I’d be indoors. Yet I wouldn’t actually be standing in the doorway. If it’s supposed to refer to being inside a building, then they shouldn’t have used the word ‘door,’ since last time I checked, doors don’t make up every square inch of a building! And I’d assume that now, since I’m not indoors, you’d say I’m ‘out of doors’, right? But, shouldn’t out of doors just be everywhere that’s not directly under a door? You know what, from now on I insist that everyone refer to being in a building as being ‘under-roof’.
— Natalie Bina, Vermilion Departure
Life is a recipe book our words always cook enough.
— Kishore Bansal
The planet you inhabit is a single plane of infinite dimensions, stretched like a guitar string, and standing before you like a concubine waiting for your command.
— Thomas Lloyd Qualls, Waking Up at Rembrandt's
The object of poetic activity is essentially language: whatever his beliefs & convictions, the poet is more concerned with words than what these words designate.
— Octavio Paz
If you are tempted to revealA tale to you someone has toldAbout another, make it pass,Before you speak, three gates of gold;These narrow gates. First, "Is it true?"Then, "Is it needful?" In your mindGive truthful answer. And the nextIs last and narrowest, "Is it kind?"And if to reach your lips at lastIt passes through these gateways three,Then you may tell the tale, nor fearWhat the result of speech may be.
— Beth Day
we are destroyed or uplifted by what they hear instantly or cumulatively
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, The Untapped Wonderer in You: Dare to Do the Undone
The words a person reads and hears and repeats become his own, enter his verbal storehouse. When needed they become, even if he does not know it, the clothing for the thoughts to which he gives birth.
— Moshe Seidel
And I learned that sometimes when someone says something so devastatingly perfect, there isn't a need for a response. The words said it all.
— Jennifer L. Armentrout, Opal
Words could bite. When I spoke to strangers, I wanted my words to have fangs.
— Whitney Barbetti, Ten Below Zero
You said the words, and they altered the universe. By merely speaking you could create damage and pain, cause tears to fall, drive people away, make yourself feel better, make your life worse.
— Lev Grossman, The Magicians
Words never fade away but echo on for eternity. Let your echo ring sweet.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
Good communication has just a little to do with eloquence. It's character that makes it more successful. Harsh words nicely articulated are sharp enough to kill your brand!
— Israelmore Ayivor, The Great Hand Book of Quotes
It sounds trite, but only because words make everything true sound trite. Because words always screw up what you're trying to say.
— Chuck Palahniuk, Zombie
. . .our whispered words, faintly in the darkness, dissolvingwithin the trees—then, fleeting words of consolationwould not suffice if feigned, and flippant wordsconfessed reluctance—our wordswere meaningless uttered on the wind. . .
— John Daniel Thieme, paulinskill hours and other poems
Prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house.
— George Orwell, Politics and the English Language
Intelligence is a way of thinking, not a choice of words.
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana, N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups
Words are not swords.
— George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
But words in a book were one thing. The true test came in battle.
— George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
A man's words reveal, first, the man. The words are not the man, and yet they reveal him faithfully and are to be identified with him. Out of the abundance of the heart, the man speaks. The foundational nature of all language is therefore metaphorical because every word a man speaks reveals himself—just as God reveals Himself through the Word. Every word spoken ultimately reveals the speaker.
— N.D. Wilson, The Rhetoric Companion
VISION is the voice inside that transcends words and shines through the initiation!
— Charles A. Brown II
His writer's words poured over her like poetry, and she couldn't find a single wisecrack to put up between them.
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips, Heroes Are My Weakness
We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not some books continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, and cities have been decayed and demolished?
— Francis Bacon
The words we choose can build communities, reunite loved ones, and inspire others. They can be a catalyst for change. However, our words also have the power to destroy and divide: they can start a war, reduce a lifelong relationship to a collection of memories, or end a life.
— Simon S. Tam
Words are so ridiculous sometimes. The don't really mean anything, but they're all I have.
— Nyrae Dawn, Charade
Writing poetry is about learning to pare down the poem to the most essential words. Every word used has to be crucial to the poem.
— Harley King
The world is so big and words are so small!
— Marty Rubin
The most powerful of words are the one seldom spoken
— Kaelo Setogang
Affliction caused by the tongue is worse than that caused by the strike of the blade of a sword.
— Anonymous
Faeces by any other name would smell as gross
— Mokokoma Mokhonoana, N for Nigger: Aphorisms for Grown Children and Childish Grown-ups
With your breath, issue words of a new contract. Become the law creator of a new prosperity.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
I write more with the words I leave out.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
When the person you love can't see your love for them beneath the painful things you say when they reject you, remember this: Love is blind.
— Shannon L. Alder
I don't like compliments and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean.
— Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
If we are the trees, words are our roots; and we grow as we write
— Munia Khan
Words alone can effect great good as well as evil. A few apt words have swept candidates into office, ended as well as started wars, paved the way for peace and carried with them both hope as well as despair. Words alone have ruined lives, but have also brought forth healing. It is well known the harm words can cause, but the good they can bring is equally impressive.
— Steve Goodier
The road was so dimly lighted.There we;re no highway signs to guide.But they made up their minds,If all roads were blind,They wouldn't give up 'til they died....
— Amy Harmon, Infinity + One
My head is a hive of words that won't settle.
— Virginia Woolf
Don’t let someone’s words blind you from their behavior.
— Steve Maraboli
But I don't think we shall quarrel about a word - the subject of our inquiry is too important for that.
— Plato, The Republic
I bleed words.I dream in narrative. I live in infinite worlds.I befriend figmental characters.I wish on stars in other galaxies.I harvest stories from a brooding muse.I bloom under moonlight in hushed seclusion.I am a writer.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
How can we know something that surpasses or is beyond knowledge? How can we know something that is beyond words?... We can and do use words to point to all of our human experiences. However, the experience of "God as Agape" is beyond words, beyond the limitations of our minds.
— John David Geib, Beyond Beliefs
Words are not static.Language shape our memories, and it is also shaped by our memories.
— John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
Not this in-between thing that Levi had, where his brain could catch the words but couldn't hold on to them.
— Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl
Arrange your unutterable alphabet, my man, / and hold tight. / It's all you've got, a naming of things, and not so beautiful.
— Charles Wright, Caribou: Poems
The words which we use in our everyday speech are nothing other than watered-down magic.
— Sigmund Freud
I have hated the words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right. - Liesel Meminger
— Markus Zusak, The Book Thief
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but a word is worth a million pictures. A billion. As many as there are people who know the word. Each has their own picture, their own meaning of it, in their heads. It's theirs. It's unique. And yet they share it with everyone else. And every time they use a word, a single word, they contribute to the creation of the soul of us all.
— Richard Tillotson, Acts of God While on Vacation