When words are most empty, tears are most apt.
In my youth there were words you couldn't say in front of a girl; now you can't say 'girl. '
Words are the coins making up the currency of sentences, and there are always too many small coins.
There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one, Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on.
No one goes unscathed, we all go through things. We just can't let people's nasty words become our beliefs about ourselves, you know?
Words of the world are the life of the world.
She'd always known he loved her, it had been the one certainty above all others that had never changed, but she had never said the words aloud and she had never meant them quite this way before. She had said it to him, and she hardly knew what she had meant. They were terrifying words, words to encompass a world.
We ought not to decide hastily against the words of an Act of Parliament.
The reason that I keep writing is that all my most powerful messages about the fates of wild places that I care about need to have words as well as images
There are many ways of writing badly about painting. . . There is an 'appreciative' language of threadbare, not inaccurate, but overexposed and irritating words. . . the language of the schools which 'situates' works and artists in schools and movements. . . novelists and poets [that] see paintings as allegories of writing.
Words, like flowers, have their colors too.
Scrutamini scripturas (Let us look at the scriptures). These two words have undone the world.
Words have very potent meanings and people read them and they react to them personally. They are very suggestive in terms of your life and things like that.
The harshness and choice of words can cut deeply. Republicans need to show compassion and to be reasonable when talking to any ethnic group.
There is no use indicting words, they are no shoddier than what they peddle.
It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.
There's no doubt that when it comes to our treatment of Native Americans as well as other persons of color in this country, we've got some very sad and difficult things to account for. I personally would want to see our tragic history, or the tragic elements of our history, acknowledged. I consistently believe that when it comes to whether it's Native Americans or African-American issues or reparations, the most important thing for the U. S. government to do is not just offer words, but offer deeds.
We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.
I didn't have the patience for the research, or anything like that. I just like how it sets the imagination off. It's just an area that's very fertile for great words. Great metaphors, potentially.
Every word was a singing sparrow, a magic trick, a truffle for me. The words made me laugh in delight.