Words Quotes

And when we finally stood up and turned to face the world, I could feel something climbing through me. I could feel it on its hands and knees inside me, rising up, rising up - and I smiled.I smiled, thinking, The hunger, because I knew it all too well.The hunger.The desire.Then, slowly, as we walked on, I felt the beauty of it, and I could taste it, like words inside my mouth.

Markus Zusak

A vocabulary of truth and simplicity will be of service throughout your life

Winston Churchill

You ask me why I don't speakNot a word at willBut write so much worth well over a mill'Well I value words like I value kissesA sober one, a closer one penetrates the heartDarling it's how it mends it

Criss Jami

I say, beware of all enterprises that require new clothes, and not rather a new wearer of clothes

Henry David Thoreau

A word to the wise is enough

Benjamin Franklin

There are many things which can not be expressed by words. There are many words which can not be spelled by human tongue. There are many tongues which utter one single truth.

Toba Beta

A new word is like a fresh seed sewn on the ground of the discussion.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Don't say it was delightful; make us say delightful when we've read the description. You see, all those words (horrifying, wonderful, hideous, exquisite) are only like saying to your readers Please will you do the job for me.

C.S. Lewis

Very quickly, very suddenly, words fell through my mind. They landed on the floor of my thoughts, and in there, down there, I started to pick the words up. They were excerpts of truth gathered from inside me.

Markus Zusak

Silence made space for other people's words, which was important for those who needed to be listened to.

Rachel Simon

Modern science is still trying to produce a tranquilizer more effective than a few kind words

Douglas Meador

Summer afternoon, summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language

Henry James

I love you more than I have ever found a way to say to you

Ben Folds

I never met a word I didn't love

Gail Carson Levine

But suppose it was truth double strong, it were no truth to me if I couldna take it in. I daresay there's truth in yon Latin book on your shelves; but it's gibberish and no truth to me, unless I know the meaning o' the words.

Elizabeth Gaskell

The words he said, too, must be human enough to bleed.

Cameron Conaway

Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.

Jodi Picoult

Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.

William Shakespeare

When the conspiracy of lies surrounding me demands of me to silence the one word of truth given to me, that word becomes the one word I wish to utter above all others.

Andre P. Brink