Words Quotes

12991 Words quotes by 5885 unique authors

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society. — John Adams
I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old dictionaries. Words, I think, are… — Drew Barrymore
A few years ago, I bought an old red bicycle with the words Free Spirit written across its side - which is exactly what I… — Drew Barrymore
My wife was too beautiful for words, but not for arguments. — John Barrymore
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… — Roland Barthes
There are about 30 words around you all the time, like 'thread' or 'exit.' — Jean-Michel Basquiat
How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words! — Samuel Adams
Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances. — Charles Baudelaire
I burned out my drawing hand by using it too much. The common word for it is writer's cramp. The fancy words for it are… — Scott Adams
The word love has by no means the same sense for both sexes, and this is one cause of the serious misunderstandings that divide them. — Simone de Beauvoir
Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell… — Simone de Beauvoir
I beg you, look for the words 'social justice' or 'economic justice' on your church Web site. If you find it, run as fast as… — Glenn Beck
Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is to the brain. If you're… — Martha Beck
Forget words like 'hard sell' and 'soft sell.' That will only confuse you. Just be sure your advertising is saying something with substance, something that… — William Bernbach
Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me. — Sarah Bernhardt
Words are all we have. — Samuel Beckett
All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and… — Samuel Beckett
And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou… — Venerable Bede
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to… — Henry Ward Beecher
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… — Joseph Addison
The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life... Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein… — Joseph Addison
I get so nervous on stage I can't help but talk. I try. I try telling my brain: stop sending words to the mouth. But… — Adele
What does it mean to love someone with all your heart? It means to love with all your emotional feelings and with all your devotion.… — Ezra Taft Benson
I reverence the Constitution of the United States as a sacred document. To me its words are akin to the revelations of God, for God… — Ezra Taft Benson
Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It's the struggle towards truthfulness which is the same whether one… — John Berger

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