513 quotes found
“She thought of all the words that went unspoken in the world, throughout time: what happened to them, where did they go? What would happen if they were all spoken? How different would the world be ...”
“Why do people who can talk right waste so many words saying nothing?”
“It sounds trite, but only because words make everything true sound trite. Because words always screw up what you're trying to say.”
“Words are so ridiculous sometimes. The don't really mean anything, but they're all I have.”
“The most powerful of words are the one seldom spoken”
“Not this in-between thing that Levi had, where his brain could catch the words but couldn't hold on to them.”
“I have hated the words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right. - Liesel Meminger”
“Words are very powerful," Miss Possibelf said, stepping lightly between the rows of desk. "And they take on more power the more they're spok”
“The sound of words as they're said is always different from the sound they make when they're heard, because the speakers hears some of the sound from the inside.”
“Should you care to write (and only the saints know why you should) you must needs have knowledge and art and magic - the knowledge of the music of words, the art of being artless, and the magic of ...”
“Words are powerful. They too can be the agents of what is new, of what is conceivable and can be thought and let loose upon the world.”
“I love words. I thank you for hearing my words. I want to tell you something about words that I think is important. Words are my work, theyre my play. Theyre my passion. Words are all we have reall...”
“There is no fiercer enemy than a word. A word that can be written down in pages and punctuated by quotation marks and commas and spelled out in contracts and poems and sighs, in old whispers and so...”
“Eleanor let his words hit her full on.”
“Sometimes words aren't needed.”
“Do not use poisonous words against anyone, for words wound more fatally than even arrows.”
“That's the point of words. They get around.”
“Words can be bridges.”
“The point I am trying to make is that words are a mysterious, ambiguous, ambivalent, and perfidious phenomenon. They can be rays of light in a realm of darkness. . . . They can equally be lethal ar...”
“The bigger the words the weaker the voice.”
