3,439 Quotes About Words

Ce n'est pas la première fois que je remarque combien, en France particulièrement, les mots ont plus d’empire que les idées."("It's not the first time I've noticed how much more power words have than ideas, particularly in France.")

What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.

Oh, how scary and wonderful it is that words can change our lives simply by being next to each other.

After awhile you realize that putting your actions where your mouth is makes you less likely to have to put your money where your mouth is.

The power of words is in the works of words. People are much more bonded by the works of words than words. The work of words is the trigger of words.

... and I realise the only way to tell the others is through the way my voice can take these broken wordsand turn it into music. Turn it into poetry.And I sing to make myself come alive, but also for you,because I’d like this to mean something.To not disappear with the dark I will enter one day and so now I will tell.If not for you, then for my own heart, because it tells me to,and I'm learning to listen.

But there were too many points at which the other self could invade the self he wanted to preserve, and there were too many forms of invasion: certain words, sounds, lights, actions his hands or feet performed, and if he did nothing at all, heard and saw nothing, the shouting of some triumphant inner voice that shocked him and cowed him.

. . . my fear, my joy more horrible than my fear, my obscene words, my words which are keys locking me into a mirror, with you, but ever alone.

Be careful how you use your words, how you build them and how people will understand them!?