In the beginning is the word. – Word-masters
There is magic in every beginning. – Hermann Hesse
A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion. – Ludwig Wittgenstein
A word after a word after a word is power. – Margaret Atwood
A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day. – Emily Dickinson
Action speaks louder than words, but not nearly as often. – Mark Twain
All I know is what I have words for. – Ludwig Wittgenstein
All my life I’ve looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time. – Ernest Hemingway
Among the things you can give and still keep is your word, a smile, and a grateful heart. – Zig Ziglar
And curious creatures that we are, in every sense of the word. Not only are we the sole animal in all of nature capable of believing in Santa Claus, we are also the only one that can come to grips with the unpleasant truth that he doesn’t exist. – Jon Franklin
Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule. – Stephen King
Bad terminology is the enemy of good thinking. – Warren Buffet
Better than a thousand hollow words is one word that brings peace. – Buddha
Consciousness comes into manifestation only when the man has used the word with full knowledge of what it means. – James Frederick Ferrier
Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us without words? – Marcel Marceau
For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk… Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind’s greatest achievements have come about by talking. – Stephen Hawking
From the fool’s gold mouthpiece the hollow horn plays wasted words… disillusioned words like bullets bark. – Bob Dylan
Great music doesn’t take words, but great songs do. – Polo Hofer
He was in love with words, as was I. It was a magical time. – Jennifer Warnes
Hippocrates had no means of recognizing the heart as a pump because there was no such item in his world and no such word in his vocabulary. – Guido Majno
How it is that animals understand things I do not know, but it is certain that they do understand. Perhaps there is a language which is not made of words and everything in the world understands it. Perhaps there is a soul hidden in everything and it can always speak, without even making a sound, to another soul. – Frances Hodgson Burnett
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way, things I had no words for. – Georgia O’Keeffe
I have no words for my reality. – Max Frisch
I like good strong words that mean something. – Louisa May Alcott
I simply set music to the words of defeat and turn it into a song. – Napoleon Hill
I think people talk too much, that’s the truth of the matter. I do. I don’t believe in words. People use too many words and usually wrongly. I am sure that in the distant future people will talk much less and in a more essential way. – Michelangelo Antonioni
If the word doesn’t exist, invent it. But first, be sure it doesn’t exist. – Charles Baudelaire
If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment. – Gaius Plinius the Elder
In the true sense of the word, are we using what we’ve learned? In the true sense of the word, are we losing what we were? – Jack Johnson
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. – Lao Tzu
Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world. – Susan Sontag
Lying is done with words, and also with silence. – Adrienne Rich
Maybe the many words is what’s preventing you from finding peace. – Hermann Hesse
Words become works. – Seneca
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Our words misunderstand us. – Adrienne Rich
Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder. – Rumi
Speak the words with the exact precision with which you would check out a laundry list. There’s a blaze of light in every word. Think of the words as science, not as art. – Leonard Cohen
Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority. – Martin Luther King Jr
Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words. – Carl Jung
The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug. – Mark Twain
The mistake of mistakes is the apparently plausible notion that to say something one has to say something. But what the artist has to present is wordless. – Joseph Campbell
The moment I write about the tiger, the tiger isn’t the tiger, he becomes a set of words. – Jorge Luis Borges
The moral flabbiness born of the bitch-goddess SUCCESS. That, with the squalid interpretation put on the word success, is our national disease. – William James
The real secret of magic is that the world is made of words. And if you know the words that the world is made of, you can make of it whatever you wish. – Terence McKenna
The word water is itself undrinkable, and the formula H20 will not float a ship. – Alan Watts
The words a child speaks do not flow in a straight line, but in a curve, as if they wanted to fall back again into the silence. – Max Picard
The words fill my head and they fall to the floor – If God’s on our side he’ll stop the next war. – Bob Dylan
The words of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts, and their thoughts the preview of their actions. – John Locke
The words you speak become the house you live in. – Hafiz
There are meanings that are lost forever the moment they are explained in words. – Haruki Murakami
There are only 3 things that can make your dreams come true: your thoughts, your words, and your actions. – Mike Dooley
To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at. – Claude Monet
Using words to talk of words is like using a pencil to draw a picture of itself, on itself. Impossible. Confusing. Frustrating. – Patrick Rothfuss
Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination. – Ludwig Wittgenstein
Watch your thoughts, they become your words. Watch your words, they become your actions. Watch your actions, they become your habits. Watch your habits, they become your character. Watch your character, it becomes your destiny. – Lao Tzu
What a word means, a sentence cannot say. – Ludwig Wittgenstein
What gets in the way of writing is having to use words. – Clarice Lispector
When you change how you look at words, you change. – Beat Schindler
Words are a prison, but even a prison is a home if you have the key. – Beat Schindler
Words are not only in open books, they are an open book themselves. – Spinosa
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. – Rudyard Kipling
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly. They’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced. – Aldous Huxley
Words can be meaningless. If they are used in such a way that no sharp conclusions can be drawn. – Richard Feynman
Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don’t go away, they just echo around. – Jane Goodall
Words mean. Words point. They are arrows. Arrows stuck in the rough hide of reality. – Susan Sontag
You are the deep innerness of all things. The last word that can never be spoken. To each of us, you reveal yourself differently. To the ship as a coastline, to the shore as a ship. – Rainer Maria Rilke
You can’t measure the mutual affection of two human beings by the number of words they exchange. – Milan Kundera
You will continue to suffer if you have an emotional reaction to everything that is said to you. True power is sitting back and observing everything with logic. If words control you, that means everyone else can control you. Breathe and allow things to pass. – Bruce Lee