Quotes About Words

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Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events not of words. Trust movement.

Alfred Adler

If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The more i read about words; the more careful i am about using them

Sampson Orson Jackson

And it feels like Its the first time That anybodys ever brought The sun without the rain And never in my whole life Have I heard words As beautiful as when you say my name..

Marie Digby

Pain reaches the heart with electrical speed, but truth moves to the heart as slowly as a glacier.

Barbara Kingsolver

Where words fail, music speaks.

Hans Christian Anderson

Words are like leaves; and where they most abound, Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.

Alexander Pope

A whizzpopper!" cried the BFG, beaming at her. "Us giants is making whizzpoppers all the time! Whizzpopping is a sign of happiness. It is music in our ears! You surely is not telling me that a little whizzpopping if forbidden among human beans?

Roald Dahl

The two most beautiful words in the English language are "Check enclosed."

Dorothy Parker

The worst of this sorry bunch of semi-educated losers are those who seem to glory in being irritated by nouns becoming verbs. How dense and deaf to language development do you have to be? If you don't like nouns becoming verbs, then for heaven's sake avoid Shakespeare who made a doing-word out of a thing-word every chance he got.

Stephen Fry