Quotes about wording

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“His heart is too full, and no words to release it.”

“When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.”

“One man’s “magic” is another man’s engineering. “Supernatural” is a null word.”

“We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printed in the subtle fibres of our nerves.”

“After scolding one's cat one looks into its face and is seized by the ugly suspicion that it understood every word. And has filed it for reference.”

“There is nothing more valuable than the printed word.”

“There was one great tomb more lordly than all the rest; huge it was, and nobly proportioned. On it was but one word, DRACULA.”

“I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life.”

“If you do not hear music in your words, you have put too much thought into your writing and not enough heart.”

“Dream and love are just words - until you decide to experience them”

“… falling in love could be achieved in a single word—a glance.”

“Does he write to you? Never a line. Does he send you a message? Never a word. It is because he loves you, poor fool, and is trying to forget you, since you are not free to listen to him or to belong to him.”

“Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.”

“Years later, I learned an English word for the creature that Assef was, a word for which a good Farsi equivalent does not exist: sociopath.”

“You ask me why I do not write something… I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results.”

“It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity. It is a world in which every word spoken speaks just to that moment, every glance given has only one meaning, each touch has no past or no future, each kiss is a kiss of immediacy.”

“Are you, monsieur, a man of your word?"
"It really depends upon the word," Magnus said. "There are so many wonderful words…”

“The animals have no need for speech, why talk when you are a word.”

“What's another word for thesaurus?”

“Words are worth little when the heart refuses to hear. Therefore, judge us by our works.”

“I have a private theory, Sir, that there are no heroes and no monsters in this world. Only children should be allowed to use these words”

“Seems to me-" Lee said, feeling for the words, "seems to me the place you fight cruelty is where you find it, and the place you give help is where you see it needed….”

“This is not a book in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty… what you will.”

“An empty shell. Those were the first words that sprang to mind….. Something incredibly important -.. - had disappeared from Miu for good. Leaving behind not life, but its absence”

“Besides, the normal people here wouldn’t see it. That was what “different” meant. It’s just another word for lonely.”

“A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.”

“Words are good for saying what things are, but sometimes they don't function for what things aren't.”

“I muttered a swear word to myself. After I heard Angel cussing like a sailor when she stubbed her toe, my new resolution was to watch my language. All I needed was a six-year-old mutant with a potty mouth”

“In the course of my life I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.”

“And so he was reading the story as if it were a spell and the words of it, spoken aloud, could make magic happen.”

“Everything comes home, my mother used to say; every word spoken, every shadow cast, every footprint in the sand. It can't be helped; it's part of what makes us who we are.”

“I see black light (his last words)”

“Lips and tongues lie. But actions never do. No matter what words are spoken, actions betray the truth of everyone's heart.”

“That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.”

“He lost himself in a maze of thoughts that were rendered vague by his lack of words to express them. Frowning, he tried again.”

“In the English language there are orphans and widows, but there is no word for the parents who lose a child.”

“Other people sound flat to my ear; their words just hang in the air. But when my mother says something, the ends curl.”

“When I can make
Of ten small words a rope to hang the world!
"I had you and I have you now no more.”

“One of the gravestones in the cemetery near the earliest church has an anchor on it and an hourglass, and the words In Hope.

In Hope. Why did they put that above a dead person? Was it the corpse hoping, or those still alive?”

“Now remember, Kate." Barabas leaned over to me, grinning. "You are the Consort. Be the Consort." He stretched "be" into a three-syllable word. "Think like a-"

"Open the door or I'll punch you right in the face," I growled.”

“Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.”

“Girl, he wants to dip you in Frosted Flakes and have you for breakfast. That's his favorite cereal, by the way." I… had no words for that.”

“You will have a story in there… or a character, a place, a poem, a moment in time. When you find it, you will write it. Word after word after word after word.”

“We had one gun, one werewolf, one poltergeist, one supercharged spell-caster, one not-so-supercharged spell-caster, and one perfectly useless necromancer, though Liz was quick to remind me that she needed me to relay her words. - Chloe”

“The weapons an author has at her disposal are flawed. There are words that feel shapeless and overused. Love, for example. I could write the word love a thousand times and it would mean a thousand different things to different readers.”

“We spent our whole lives in unconsous excercise of the art of expressing our thoughts with the help of words”

“From his lips/Not words alone pleased her.”

“the joy of someone who had been a reader all her life, whose world had been immeasurably enlarged by the words of others.”

“It may well be that we will have to repent in this generation. Not merely for the vitriolic words and the violent actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence and indifference of the good people who sit around and say, "Wait on time."”

“Never," said Gregor. "I'll never get rid of you, no matter how hard I try." It was no longer an effort to say the words. "I love you."
"I love you, too," said Luxa.
After that there was nothing left to say.”

“you said you were going to kill rukia with your own hands… you make me sick… show me your bankai and I will crush it… I will make me beg for forgiveness on you knees… I will never let you say those words to Rukia again…
~Ichigo Kurosaki”

“A new word. Bright with possibilities. A flawless pearl to turn over and over in my hand, then put away for safekeeping.”

“Every word I say has chains round its ankles; every thought I think is weighted with heavy weights.”

“Every creature is a word of God.”

“hate has no literature: real fear and real hate have no words”

“Those words, that voice, had more power over me than any phantom ever could.”

“I have this strange feeling that I'm not myself anymore. It's hard to put into words, but I guess it's like I was fast asleep, and someone came, disassembled me, and hurriedly put me back together again. That sort of feeling.”

“How furious she must be, now that she's been taken at her word.”

“He had this old southern idea of what a lady should be. A lady should not carry a gun and spend most of her time covered in blood and corpses. I had two words for that attitude.
Yeah, those are the words.”

“You see how I try
To reach with words
What matters most
And how I fail.”

“Why are you so sad?
- Because you speak to me in words and I look at you with feelings.”

“Words. Words. I play with words, hoping that some combination, even a chance combination, will say what I want.”

“Murder is such a charged word. You know how some people fixate and won't let things go? They're called cops.”

“I need words that mean more than they mean, words not just with height and width, but depth and weight and, and other dimensions that I cannot even name.”

“Sookie," Eric said. I didn't think he'd heard a word. "Yield to me."
Well, that was pretty direct.”

“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.”

“This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.”

“Sometimes words just don't get you there… don't let you say all the stuff from deep in your heart, stuff that no dictionary has a name for.”

“I don't know how to answer. I know what I think, but words in the head are like voices underwater. They are distorted.”

“I hadn't fully realized just how powerful words could be before this. Whoever came up with the saying 'sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me' was talking out of his or her armpit.”

“I don't profess any religion; I don't think it’s possible that there is a God; I have the greatest difficulty in understanding what is meant by the words ‘spiritual’ or ‘spirituality.'

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“Neither of us says the word love, not once. It would be tempting fate; it would be romance, bad luck.”

“They were bound for college, husbands, child-rearing, unhappiness only dimly perceived—bound, in other words, for life.”

“Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it- it can't survive being shared. Shame loves secrecy. When we bury our story, the shame metastasizes.”

“He sang his last song. And the words of that have never been written down. But it was sweet and of great beauty, and those that heard it were changed utterly.
Some say it was the song that moves the stars.”

“Memory's images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.”

“You can wet the rim of a glass and run your finger around the rim and it will make a sound. This is what I feel like: this sound of glass. I feel like the word shatter. I want to be with someone.”

“One word from you shall silence me forever.”

“Music does not replace words, it gives tone to the words”

“the enduring struggle to capture in words the infinite possibilities of a life not lived.”

“Love is a Christian word, Anjin-san. Love is a Christian thought, a Christian ideal. We have no word for 'love' as I understand you to mean it. Duty, loyalty, honor, respect, desire, those words and thoughts are what we have, all that we need.”

“For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.”

“There are more experiences in life than you’d think for which there are no words.”

“I am stronger than words and I am bigger than the box I'm in, and then I see her in the crowd and I fall apart.”

“Then he left her there, standing alone, surrounded by word ghosts; things she could have said.”

“Closure is a greasy little word which, moreover, describes a nonexistent condition. The truth, Venus, is that nobody gets over anything.”

“If you hear a "prominent" economist using the word 'equilibrium,' or 'normal distribution,' do not argue with him; just ignore him, or try to put a rat down his shirt.”

“There aren't any magical words, really. Words just hold the magic.”

“It's his word against the Commander's, unless he wants to head a posse. Kick in the door, and what did I tell you? Caught in the act, sinfully Scrabbling. Quick, eat those words.”

“Words are just words. The evidence is in how you act, how you react.”

“Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.”

“Atque in pepetuum, frater, ave atque vale,” he whispered. The words of the poem had never seemed so fitting: Forever and ever, my brother, hail and farewell.”

“Very possible! Possible, indeed. Maybe even probable, which, as you know if you study your arithmetic, can happen more often than possible. In other words, probable is more possible than possible. - Bubo”

“love, I've come to understand is more than three words mumbled before bedtime.”

“Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.”

“It is no coincidence that the words 'trying' and 'dying' are only a few letters apart.”

“the words people do not speak are louder than the ones they do.”

“Sometimes words drew blood, they cut your tongue, they made you know things you couldn't unknow.”

“Ambition is not a dirty word. Piss on compromise. Go for the throat.”