Words Quotes

Adrienne rich - lying is done with words and also with silence....
To the Nahuas, words were flowers, metaphors that gave birth to thoughts and actions.
Jose Antonio Burciaga
Morticia addams - from the addams family movie - we gladly feast on those who would subdue us......
He has a splendid repertoire of 500 words. Why does he insist on using only 150?
Abba Eban
By words the mind is winged.
Aristophanes
Careful with fire is good advice we know. Careful with words is ten times doubly so.
William Carleton
In love there are things - - - Bodies and words.
Joyce Carol Oates
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
Johann von Goethe
When someone is giving you their theology, their God words, you should listen hard and be very gentle. The time to deliver your God words is when you are asked.
Real Live Preacher, Real Live Preacher weblog, 03 - 25 - 05
One picture is worth a thousand words.
Fred R. Barnard
The only words that ever satisfied me as describing Nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment. They express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
People do not want words - They want the sound of battle... the battle of destiny.
Gamal Abdel Nasse
Too many people run out of ideas long before they run out of words.
Author Unknown
You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Beyond talent lie all the usual words discipline, love, luck - - But, most of all, endurance.
James Arthur Baldwin
There is one thing that matters - - To set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people.
Logan Pearsall Smith
Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.
Samuel Johnson
If thy words be too luxuriant, confine them, lest they confine thee. He that thinks he can never speak enough, may easily speak too much. A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted.
Francis Quarles
It does not matter what men say in words, so long as their activities are controlled by settled instincts. The words may ultimately destroy the instincts. But until this has occurred, words do not count. - From Science and the Modern World.
Alfred North Whitehead
One ought every day at least to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Unknown
Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.
John Ruskin
Whatever we well understand we express clearly, and words flow with ease.
Nicholas Boileau
There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.
Bette Davis, The Lonely Life, 1962
The words that enlighten the soul are more precious than jewels.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
Lady you bereft me of all words, Only my blood speaks to you in my veins, And there is such confusion in my powers.
William Shakespeare
When words fail, music speaks.
Hans Christian Anderson
Thy words, I grant are bigger, for I wear not, my dagger in my mouth.
William Shakespeare
Find out just what people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue until they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress.
Frederick Douglass
False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.
Plato, Dialogues, Phaedo
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Ingrid Bergman
The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. It is an intelligence about language.
Henry David Thoreau
The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.
William Shakespeare
Prima la musica, poi le parole first the music, then the words.
Antonio Salieri, title of an opera
I believe the choice to be excellent begins with aligning your thoughts and words with the intention to require more from yourself.
Oprah Winfrey, O Magazine, December 2003
Not till we are lost, in other words, not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize the infinite extent of our relations.
Henry David Thoreau
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes. Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.
Eric Hoffe
Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.
Pythagoras
I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces.
Harold Ross
Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects