All Quotes

Words are impotent to describe certain emotions.
‐‐ Ella Maillart

Words are intermediary between thought and things. We express ourselves really not through words, which are only signs, but through what they signify - through things.
‐‐ George Edward Woodberry

Words are just words.
‐‐ Luther Campbell

Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy.
‐‐ Helen Hunt Jackson

Words are like untying a corset - you can move into this great space with them.
‐‐ Ali Smith

Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes.
‐‐ Cheryl Mendelson

Words are loaded pistols.
‐‐ Jean-Paul Sartre

Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable.
‐‐ Rene Daumal

Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.
‐‐ Izaak Walton

Words are mere shadows cast by ideas. But the ideas they represent are real.
‐‐ Roy H. Williams

Words are more treacherous and powerful than we think.
‐‐ Jean-Paul Sartre

Words are most malignant, the most treacherous possession of mankind. They are saturated with the sorrows of all time.
‐‐ Louis Sullivan

Words are much better at relating emotions and thoughts.
‐‐ Yann Martel

Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.
‐‐ Samuel Butler

Words are not even within me. They're not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling that I had.
‐‐ Tanya Tucker

Words are not pebbles in alien juxtaposition.
‐‐ Learned Hand

Words are not too old, only people are too old if they use the same words too frequently.
‐‐ Elias Canetti

Words are not trivial. They matter because they raise consciousness.
‐‐ Richard Dawkins

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
‐‐ Rudyard Kipling

Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.
‐‐ Josh Billings

Words are only as good as the response to those words.
‐‐ Jesse Williams

Words are our life. We are human because we use language. So I think we are less human when we use less language.
‐‐ Carol Shields

Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad.
‐‐ Manly Hall

Words are power. And a book is full of words. Be careful what power you get from it. But know that you do.
‐‐ Yoko Ono

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

Words are powerful. When I make mistakes I just try to come back and clarify what I meant.
‐‐ Soulja Boy

Words are really beautiful, but they're limited. Words are very male, very structured. But the voice is the netherworld, the darkness, where there's nothing to hang onto. The voice comes from a part of you that just knows and expresses and is.
‐‐ Jeff Buckley

Words are really powerful. I don't believe that axiom at all - words can absolutely hurt you. Words can wound. They can do a lot of damage. I think they can do way more damage than sticks and stones. I'll take sticks and stones.
‐‐ Mary-Louise Parker

Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.
‐‐ Yehuda Berg

Words are so lovable. How could you not love words?
‐‐ Erin McKean

Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It's the struggle towards truthfulness which is the same whether one is writing a poem, a novel or an argument.
‐‐ John Berger

Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer.
‐‐ James Houston

Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer. But why? Why do you choose one set of tools rather than another?
‐‐ James D. Houston

Words are the children of reason and, therefore, can't explain it. They really can't translate feeling because they're not part of it. That's why it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It's not. It's feeling.
‐‐ Bill Evans

Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.
‐‐ Jules Renard

Words are the essence of culture. Books are pure essence. They are not for women or for men, but for all of us. Without books, civilisation falls into the dark ages.
‐‐ Matt Haig

Words are the money of fools.
‐‐ Thomas Hobbes

Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.
‐‐ Aeschylus

Words are the small change of thought.
‐‐ Jules Renard

Words are the tools of 'to be' - of expression. They are completely built on the fact that you 'are,' and in order to express it, you have built a little alphabet, and you make your words from it.
‐‐ Marcel Duchamp

Words are things, but things which mean. We cannot do away with meaning without doing away with signs, that is, with language itself. Moreover, we would have to do away with the universe. All the things man touches are impregnated with meaning.
‐‐ Octavio Paz

Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.
‐‐ Yann Martel

Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
‐‐ Joseph Conrad

Words began to appear in English and to make some kind of equivalent. For what satisfaction it is hard to say, except that something seems unusually piercing, living, handsome, in another language, and since English is yours, you wish it to be there too.
‐‐ Robert Fitzgerald

Words build a bridge between the imaginations of writer and reader, creating something unique between them.
‐‐ Jane Lindskold

Words can be like baseball bats when used maliciously.
‐‐ Sydney Madwed

Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don't go away, they just echo around.
‐‐ Jane Goodall

Words can be very powerful. I find them very difficult.
‐‐ Bryan Ferry

Words can have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbit and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used.
‐‐ David Lehman