Quotes and Sayings about Words

Words are, in my not so humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic, capable of both inflicting injury and remedying it.

Where words are scarse, they are seldome spent in vaine.

Trying to write about love is ultimately like trying to have a dictionary represent life. No matter how many words there are, there will never be enough.

After all, only so much we can say,
words can lose their meaning, once you walk away.

Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

A heavy hart can't be freed by words. But words can lead to action.

No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world.

Long before blades and sorcery are needed, words... can save a soul.

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'

Words are like swords. If you use them the wrong way, they can turn into ugly weapons.

The written word endures, the spoken word disappears.

That words could cause something in the world, make someone move or stop, laugh or cry: even as a child he had found it extraordinary and it never stopped impressing him. How did words do that? Wasn't it like magic?

Love is a word you gave it a name.

All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

He who doesn't recognize the value of silence, doesn't know about the power of words.

The difference between the almost right word and the right word is the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.

Humans use more words, but say less.

Say something worth the words.

Words are where most change begins.

Words have a way of fanning into wildfires.

The right word cuts more deeply than a knife.

Too easily, words of war become acts of war.

Words have a lot of power.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

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.

No armies, no war, no oppression - but words have the ability to change the course of things.

You can change your world by changing your words... Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.

I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and my father obviously did too.

Sometimes words are harder than blows.

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.

My father told and taught me that 'the word can hit harder than the fist.'

If you stop to think about it, you’ll have to admit that all the stories in the world consist essentially of twenty-six letters. The letters are always the same, only the arrangement varies. From letters words are formed, from words sentences, from sentences chapters, and from chapters stories.

People aren't like numbers. They're more like letters. And those letters want to become stories. And dad said that stories need to be shared.

A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.

"One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us."

Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed, it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.

An ending was an ending. No matter how many pages of sentences and paragraphs of great stories led up to it, it would always have the last word.

It takes much more courage to be in love than it does for war.

Those who dream by day are are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.

Poetry is a way of looking at the world for the first time.

If you only ever read one book in your life I highly recommend... keeping your f*cking mouth shut.

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears. "After all this time?"
"Always", said Snape.

The world is full of magic. Small things become big. Winter turns to spring. One thing always changes into another.

For stony limits cannot hold love out,
And what love can do, that dares love attempt.