Words Quotes

The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.

A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

We should be as careful of our words as of our actions.

Every word was once a poem. Every new relation is a new word.

It's what you do that counts and not what you say; therefore I fired my press agent.

Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much.

You can make anything by writing.

Words are animals, alive with a will of their own

We must have a better word than "prefabricated", why not "ready-made"?

Here's what my love affair with quotations has taught me: the more you focus on words that uplift you, the more you embody the ideas contained in those words.

But words have been used too often; touched and turned, and left exposed to the dust of the street. The words we seek hang close to the tree. We come at dawn and find them sweet beneath the leaf.

Words belong to each other.

you had nothing to say about it and yet made the nothing up into words.

My definition of poetry (if I were forced to give one) would be this: words that have become deeds.

Watch your thoughts, they become your words.

Deeds not Words: I say so too! And yet I find it somehow true, A word may help a man in need, To nobler act and braver deed.

There's small Revenge in Words, but Words may be greatly revenged

Cut these words and they would bleed; they are vascular and alive.

Ransack the language as he might, words failed him. He wanted another landscape, and another tongue.

Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.

A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.

True words seem false.

For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry.

One could say nothing to nobody. The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object inches too low. Then one gave it up; then the idea sunk back again; then one became like most middle-aged people, cautious, furtive, with wrinkles between the eyes and a look of perpetual apprehension. For how could one express in words these emotions of the body? express that emptiness there?

Behavior is a much better barometer of what you are than words.

It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.

A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.

Words can break someone into a million pieces, but they can also put them back together

Most of us make unconscious choices in the words that we use; we sleep-walk through the maze of possibilities available to us.

There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.

It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone and can be made as offensive as a brickbat.

To find a new word that is accurate and different, you have to be alert for it.

I am sure," cried Catherine, "I did not mean to say anything wrong; but it is a nice book, and why should not I call it so?" "Very true," said Henry, "and this is a very nice day, and we are taking a very nice walk, and you are two very nice young ladies. Oh! It is a very nice word indeed! It does for everything. Originally perhaps it was applied only to express neatness, propriety, delicacy, or refinement—people were nice in their dress, in their sentiments, or their choice. But now every commendation on every subject is comprised in that one word.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

No, she thought, one could say nothing to nobody. The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object inches too low.

Tongues I'll hang on every treeThat shall civil sayings show. . . .

Never underestimate the power of words to heal and reconcile relationships.

Words reduce reality to something the human mind can grasp, which isn’t very much. Language consists of five basic sounds produced by the vocal cords. They are the vowels a, e, i, o, u. The other sounds are consonants produced by air pressure: s, f, g, and so forth. Do you believe some combination of such basic sounds could ever explain who you are, or the ultimate purpose of the universe, or even what a tree or stone is in its depth?

Words are containers for power

Some people think that words can injure the psyche or the moral fiber. And they really can't.

Words are powerful; if you change your words, you can change your life.

What can be expressed in words can be expressed in life.

O tongue you are an endless treasure. O tongue, you are also an endless disease.

There is power in words. What you say is what you get.

What you're thinking, what you're saying, what you're doing, is having an impact on you and the people around you

What we think about and talk about expands into action.

Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.

Today we are going to talk about words. You know, words are containers for power. They carry creative or destructive power. They carry positive or negative power. We can choose our words and we should do it carefully.

You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.

In good writing, words become one with things.

On Rumor's tongue continual slanders ride.

Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me.

I think I feel in love with words before I feel in love with music.

How much an ill word may empoison liking!

Words are one thing - deeds something entirely different. Fine words are a mask to cover shady deeds. A sincere diplomat is like dry water or wooden iron.

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.

It has seemed to be more necessary to have regard to the weight of words rather than to their number.

Thoughts without words… Can that be?

I am indeed not her fool, but her corrupter of words. (Act III, sc. I, 37-38)

It is the stillest words that bring the storm.