Words Quotes

Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef.

Tom Robbins

I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher. com Weblog, January 05, 2004

James, you ought to discover some day that words have an exact meaning.

Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged, 1957

Brain researchers estimate that your unconscious database outweighs the conscious on an order exceeding ten million to one. This database is the source of your hidden, natural genius. In other words, a part of you is much smarter than you are. The wise people regularly consult that smarter part.

Michael J. Gel

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets, 1999

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.

Sophocles, Antigone

For I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and big words Bother me.

Winnie the Pooh

Your beliefs become your thoughts. Your thoughts become your words. Your words become your actions. Your actions become your habits. Your habits become your values. Your values become your destiny.

Mahatma Gandhi

Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.

Wendell Johnson

We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bellyful of words and do not know a thing.

Ralph Waldo Emerson