Motivational Quotes

Words

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

- Card, Orson Scott

Best Quotes about Words

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Churchill, Winston

Nothing can throw thee into the infernal abyss so much as this detested word -- heed well! -- this mine and thine.

Silesius, Angelus

I've been asked to say a couple of words about my husband, Fang. How about short and cheap?

Diller, Phyllis

The written word can be erased -- not so with the spoken word.

A wise man hears one word and understands two.

Proverb, Yiddish

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Churchill, Winston

For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice.

Eliot, T. S.

There's no sentence that's too short in the eyes of God.

Zinsser, William

A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.

Ibsen, Henrik

10.

The two most beautiful words in the English language are: Check Enclosed.

Parker, Dorothy

11.

We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.

Haldeman, Harold Robbins

12.

Keep your words sweet -- you may have to eat them. I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

Grellet, Stephan

13.

The wise weigh their words on a scale with gold.

14.

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.

Yeats, William Butler

15.

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.

Ellison, Ralph

16.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.

Twain, Mark

17.

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

Renard, Jules

18.

I don't give a damn for man that can spell a word only one way.

Twain, Mark

19.

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

Rohn, Jim

20.

Each group of words is processed by the brain as a single thought. And because the words are viewed in context, you retain them more accurately than if you processed the words individually.

Saperstein, Rose

21.

You can stroke people with words.

22.

The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.

Tocqueville, Alexis De

23.

The words of the world want to make sentences.

Bachelard, Gaston

24.

Bu is a word that cools many a warm impulse, stifles many a kindly thought, puts a dead stop to many a brotherly deed. No one would ever love his neighbor as himself if he listened to all the Buts that could be said.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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I am a dreamer of words, of written words. I think I am reading; a word stops me. I leave the page. The syllables of the word begin to move around. Stressed accents begin to invert. The word abandons its meaning like an overload which is too heavy and prevents dreaming. Then words take on other meanings as if they had the right to be young. And the words wander away, looking in the nooks and crannies of vocabulary for new company, bad company.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Words are like eyeglasses they blur everything that they do not make clear.

Joubert, Joseph

27.

Handle them carefully, for words have more power than atom bombs.

Hurd, Pearl Strachan

28.

Gentle words, quiet words, are after all the most powerful words. They are more convincing, more compelling, more prevailing.

Gladden, W.

29.

If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?

Wright, Steven

30.

Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

31.

Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.

Huxley, Julian S.

32.

But words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew, upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.

Byron, Lord

33.

Words represent your intellect. The sound, gesture and movement represent your feelings.

Fripp, Patricia

34.

Our great men have written words of wisdom to be used when hardship must be faced. Life obliges us with hardship so the words of wisdom shouldn't go to waste.

L'Chiam

35.

Political correctness is simply a speed bump in the traffic of truth, free thought and speech.

36.

In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.

Haldane, John B. S.

37.

Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.

Connolly, Cyril

38.

All words are part true and part false.

Kahn, Master

39.

Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what we are given by the senses.

Arendt, Hannah

40.

A word once uttered can never be recalled.

Horace

41.

It is with a word as with an arrow -- once let it loose and it does not return.

42.

As a poet and writer, I deeply love and I deeply hate words. I love the infinite evidence and change and requirements and possibilities of language; every human use of words that is joyful, or honest or new, because experience is new... But as a Black poet and writer, I hate words that cancel my name and my history and the freedom of my future: I hate the words that condemn and refuse the language of my people in America.

Jordan, June

43.

Good words are worth a thousand pictures.

44.

The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.

Kraus, Karl

45.

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Spencer, Herbert

46.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

Adams, John

47.

The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.

Woolf, Virginia

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Words are all we have.

Beckett, Samuel

49.

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.

Lehman, David

50.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Hemingway, Ernest