Words Quotes - page 4

Silence is more eloquent than words. (Thomas Carlyle)
Be not a slave of words. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
The most successful ideological effects are those which have no need of words, and ask no more than complicitous silence. View quote
Pierre Bourdieu
One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple. View quote
Jack Kerouac
As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests. View quote
Gore Vidal
Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. View quote
Robert Frost
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. View quote
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. View quote
Newt Gingrich
One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts. View quote
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. View quote
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. View quote
Anne Rice
All words, in every language, are metaphors. View quote
Marshall McLuhan
If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint. View quote
Edward Hopper
Words want to find chimes with each other, things want to connect. View quote
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." View quote
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. View quote
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. View quote
John Millington Synge
Words can be very powerful. I find them very difficult. View quote
Bryan Ferry
It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. View quote
Robert Southey
Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken. (Orson Scott Card)
Music is only love looking for words. View quote
Lawrence Durrell
Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds? View quote
Robert Browning
All our words from loose using have lost their edge. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
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