3,439 Quotes About Words

Mizuko loved reading the dictionary. She liked it when there were multiple meanings for words and when opposite meanings could be contained.

You've got the look of a girl who's no stranger to the page. I can tell. You've got words in your soul.

words are like nets - we hope they'll cover what we mean, but we know they can't possibly hold that much joy, or grief, or wonder.

That speaking the words, even if true, had little power to change the inevitable or even make him feel much better.

There are words in the soul of a newborn baby, wanting and waiting to be written.

sometimes the little words we put down are signs of the greater ones inside".

Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.

What a gulf between impression and expression! That’s our ironic fate—to have Shakespearean feelings and (unless by some billion-to-one chance we happen to be Shakespeare) to talk about them like automobile salesmen or teen-agers or college professors. We practice alchemy in reverse—touch gold and it turns into lead; touch the pure lyrics of experience, and they turn into the verbal equivalents of tripe and hogwash.

I had a cousin once who lived in your dictionary, inside the binding, and there was a tiny hole which he used for a door, and it led out between trichotomy and trick. Now what do you think of that? It was only a few minutes walk to trigger, then over the page to trinity, trinket and trional, and there my cousin used to fall asleep.