Words Quotes

12991 Words quotes by 5885 unique authors

Someone spoke to me last night,/ told me the truth. Just a few words,. but I recognized it./ I knew I should make myself get… — Dorianne Laux
Writing is not about self-expression; it is about putting words on paper. — Gordon Lish
Short stories and some short novels are close to poetry--with the fewest words they capture the essence of a situation, of a human being. It's… — Gina Berriault
What I noticed at Grace-Calvary is the same thing I notice whenever people aim to solve their conflicts with one another by turning to the… — Barbara Brown Taylor
The effort to untangle the human words from the divine seems not only futile to me but also unnecessary, since God works with what is.… — Barbara Brown Taylor
When I first came round in the medical center after my accident, the first face I saw was Ayrton's, with tears in his eyes. I… — Rubens Barrichello
I'm more a collector of identities and words that feel right to me. To me this is an inarguable point. I am who I say… — Unknown Author
To expect happiness without giving up negative action is like holding your hand in a fire and hoping not to be burned. Of course, no… — Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
It is a tragic and agonizing irony that instructions once delivered for the purpose of avoiding needless offense are now invoked in ways that needlessly… — Rachel Held Evans
I know the prettiest word in the world is ‘money.’ But I believe that words like ‘loyalty’ and ‘patriotism’ are very beautiful as well. — Unknown Author
Yet the transgender lobby aggressively attacks any critical voice as transphobic and tries to censor us from speaking. There is a big difference between criticism… — Janice Raymond
It doesn't matter if you and everyone else in the room are thinking it. You don't say the words. Words are weapons. They blast big… — Richard Kadrey
Because powerful images are fixed in the mind more readily than words, the photographer needs no interpreter. A photograph means the same thing all over… — Arthur Rothstein
Sometimes poetry--words--give us a small, lovely look at ourselves. And sometimes that is enough. — Patricia MacLachlan
The words graphic designer, architect, or industrial designer stick in my throat, giving me a sense of limitation, of specialisation within the specialty, of a… — Alvin Lustig
A princess always takes care that her words are honeyed, for she may have to eat them — Christina Dodd
Ariel Gordon is superbly, supremely, a poet of the body. She finds words for the physicality of the forest, of the garden, of pregnancy. Hump… — Robert Kroetsch
Sometimes,because we use the same words,we assume we mean the same thing — Ahdaf Soueif
I don't even know what that means. People who get credit have to get it from somewhere. Does a credit bubble mean that people save… — Eugene Fama
Tips for aspiring writers: don't be afraid of writing rubbish. It's very easy to become hypnotised by an empty page or screen. It's tempting to… — Frances Hardinge
You always have a choice. Don't ever imagine you don't. Whatever you do, it's a decision and you have to accept responsibility for it. That's… — Lynn Flewelling
Abstract art was the quivalent of poetic expression; I didn’t need to use words,but colors and lines. I didn’t need to belong to a language-oriented… — Etel Adnan
The images in a picture book are the driving forces that tell the story. The words tell only what the pictures can't. — Unknown Author
Users scan a page looking for trigger words. If they find a trigger word, they click on it but if they don’t find it, they… — Jared Spool
Flattery is a lie covered in a bed of flowery words. — Deborah Smith

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