All Quotes

Words can have the same kind of magic as riffs can.
‐‐ Stone Gossard

Words can hurt you. In the larger world, it frames how people think about you, and it can hurt you in lots of little, subtle ways.
‐‐ Nathan Myhrvold

Words can make the illness a subject I can master, and not one that one simply emotes over.
‐‐ Tony Judt

Words can never adequately convey the incredible impact of our attitudes toward life. The longer I live the more convinced I become that life is 10 percent what happens to us and 90 percent how we respond to it.
‐‐ Charles R. Swindoll

Words can sometimes be used to confuse, but it's up to the practitioners of the study of language to apply them for good and not for evil. It is just like fire; fire can heat your house or burn it down.
‐‐ Frank Luntz

Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.
‐‐ Elie Wiesel

Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.
‐‐ Phyllis McGinley

Words can't describe how one would feel in that moment after doing a test for something you really want but in your heart you don't think you have a chance of getting.
‐‐ Aja Naomi King

Words can't express how humbled I am in being given the privilege to portray Gunnery Sergeant Basilone!
‐‐ Jon Seda

Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
‐‐ Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Words cannot express quite a lot of feelings, whereas a noise or tone or drone or sound, an accordion falling down a staircase, can somehow capture an emotion much better.
‐‐ John Lydon

Words change over time. 'Condescending,' for instance, was once a good thing to be. It meant that a person was willing to interact politely with people of lower social ranks. In Jane Austen's world, a lady praised for her condescension was receiving a sincere compliment.
‐‐ Nancy Kress

Words contract a significance which clings to them long after the condition of things to which they owe it has passed away.
‐‐ Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Words derive their power from the original word.
‐‐ Meister Eckhart

Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.
‐‐ Blaise Pascal

Words do not change their meanings so drastically in the course of centuries as, in our minds, names do in the course of a year or two.
‐‐ Marcel Proust

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.
‐‐ Hermann Hesse

Words do not pay for my dead people.
‐‐ Chief Joseph

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.
‐‐ Jim Rohn

Words easy to be understood do often hit the mark; when high and learned ones do only pierce the air.
‐‐ John Bunyan

Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.
‐‐ Homer

Words, especially when yelled in anger, can be very damaging to a child's self-confidence. The child probably already feels bad enough just from seeing the consequences of his or her behavior. Our sons and daughters don't need more guilt and self-doubt heaped upon their already wounded egos.
‐‐ Jack Canfield

Words fall short sometimes.
‐‐ Jeff Bridges

Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter.
‐‐ Peter De Vries

Words for mental processes are all derived from physical things.
‐‐ Robert Smithson

Words have a genealogy and it's easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolution of a language.
‐‐ Daniel Dennett

Words have a life of their own. There is no telling what they will do. Within a matter of days, they can even turn turtle and mean the opposite.
‐‐ Craig Brown

Words have a longevity that I do not have.
‐‐ Paul Kalanithi

Words have great cumulative power, but in the 21st century, a single image is much stronger. An image suggests the unvarnished truth. That is its power and its fiction.
‐‐ Alexandra Kerry

Words have life and must be cared for. If they are stolen for ugly uses or careless slang or false promotion work, they need to be brought back to their original meaning - back to their roots.
‐‐ Corita Kent

Words have meaning. And their meaning doesn't change.
‐‐ Antonin Scalia

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
‐‐ Edgar Allan Poe

Words have not only a definition... but also the felt quality of their own kind of sound.
‐‐ Mary Oliver

Words have power. Words created this universe... Everything started with the Word. The Bible says, 'In the beginning was the word.' In the same way, your words have creative power.
‐‐ Bo Sanchez

Words impress me. If a man can speak eloquently and beautifully to me, I just melt on the floor.
‐‐ Catherine Zeta-Jones

Words in a person's word stock are like paints on a palette. It helps to have just the right shade when you need it.
‐‐ Anu Garg

Words let us say the things we want to say and also things we would be better off not having said. They let us know the things we need to know, and also things we wish we didn't.
‐‐ Steven Pinker

Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.
‐‐ Joseph Joubert

Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.
‐‐ Alfred Lord Tennyson

Words make love with one another.
‐‐ Andre Breton

Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.
‐‐ E. Y. Harburg

Words matter, especially words defining complicated political arrangements, because they shape perceptions of the events of the past, attitudes toward policies being carried out in the present, and expectations about desirable directions for the future.
‐‐ Michael Mandelbaum

Words may be false and full of art; Sighs are the natural language of the heart.
‐‐ Thomas Shadwell

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
‐‐ Benjamin Franklin

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.
‐‐ Maya Angelou

Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.
‐‐ Ernest Gaines

Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented.
‐‐ Leo Rosten

Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.
‐‐ Louis Nizer

Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists.
‐‐ James Newman