Words Quotes - page 4

Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire. (Roland Barthes)
I think that one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, and loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around the camp fire, but are lousy in politics.
Newt Gingrich
One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
Samuel Johnson
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.
Elie Wiesel
Words can sometimes, in moments of grace, attain the quality of deeds.
Elie Wiesel
I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.
Anne Rice
All words, in every language, are metaphors.
Marshall McLuhan
If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
Edward Hopper
Words want to find chimes with each other, things want to connect.
Paul Muldoon
I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: "What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me."
Joseph Addison
American Gods is about 200,000 words long, and I'm sure there are words that are simply in there 'cause I like them. I know I couldn't justify each and every one of them. (Neil Gaiman)
A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.
John Millington Synge
Words can be very powerful. I find them very difficult.
Bryan Ferry
It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed, the deeper they burn.
Robert Southey
Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.
Orson Scott Card
Music is only love looking for words.
Lawrence Durrell
Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?
Robert Browning
All our words from loose using have lost their edge.
Ernest Hemingway
All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.
Ernest Hemingway
Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power.
Amy Tan
The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy. (Florence Scovel Shinn)
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
The glossary of politics is so full of euphemistic words and phrases - as in the nature of things it must be - that one would suppose politicians must sometimes strain their wits to coin them.
Albert Jay Nock
Taxes are like abortion, and not just because both are grotesque procedures supported by Democrats. You're for them or against them. Taxes go up or down; government raises taxes or lowers them. But Democrats will not let the words abortion or tax cuts pass their lips.
Ann Coulter
Lying is done with words and also with silence.
Adrienne Rich