W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Words are the only arteries of thought our poor human body possesses.”
Source: the zodiac arch
“Words are the only bread we can really share.”
Source: Nobody's Son: Notes from an American Life
“Words are the only bullets in truth's bandolier. And poets are the snipers.”
Source: The Hyperion Cantos 4-Book Bundle: Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, The Rise of Endymion
“Words are the only jewels I possess
Words are the only clothes I wear
Words are only the food that sustain my life
Words are the only wealth I distribute among people.”
“Words are the only things that last for ever.”
Source: Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things
“Words are the parents of a causeless wrath.”
Source: The Tragedies of Aeschylos: The Persians. The seven who fought against Thebes. Prometheus bound. The suppliants. Fragments. Appendix of rhymed choruses
“Words are the part of silence that can be spoken.”
Source: Lighthousekeeping
“Words are the pen of the heart, but music is the pen of the soul.”
“Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.”
“Words are the raw material out of which literature is crafted.”
Source: Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them
“Words are the residue that I was there, that I loved my wife, that I kissed my children goodnight, that I sacrificed my life for them. Words are a curse. Life is a curse. Words escape life. Life escapes words. What in God's name am I? How does someone name a God? What is it to name yourself?”
Source: Crossing Borders: Personal Essays
“Words are the scaffolding upon which we build our lives.”
“Words are the seeds the soul casts into the sky; when the time comes, they fall back and blossom into one’s destiny.”
Source: The Season of Words: 1.1-1.2
“Words are the small change of thought.”
Source: The journal of Jules Renard
“Words are the soul's ambassadors, who go / Abroad upon her errands to and fro.”
“Words are the source of all power. And names are more than just a collection of letters.”
“Words are the supreme objects. They are minded things.”
Source: Conversations with William H. Gass
“Words are the timeless beauties; they tell a thousand stories, deliver your purpose, speak the heart and build character. The play and interaction of words amuse me, hence the power of words is my love.”
“Words are the vibrations of nature. Therefore, beautiful words create beautiful nature. Ugly words create ugly nature. This is the root of the universe.”
“Words are the voice of the heart.”
Source: The Essential Analects: Selected Passages with Traditional Commentary
“Words are the weak support of cold indifference; love has no language to be heard.”
Source: The old bachelor. The double-dealer. Love for love
“Words are the weights which hold our history in place.”
“Words are the wings of actions.”
“Words are things. You must be careful, careful about calling people out of their names, using racial pejoratives and sexual pejoratives and all that ignorance. Don’t do that. Some day we’ll be able to measure the power of words. I think they are things. They get on the walls. They get in your wallpaper. They get in your rugs, in your upholstery, and your clothes, and finally in to you.”
“Words are thoughts encapsulated in sound vibrations. It’s not the vibration or frequency that gives a word complete power but the meaning perceived by another person for that word.”
Source: Just Love Her
“Words are timeless. You should utter them or write them with a knowledge of their timelessness.”
Source: The New Frontier and Sand and Foam
“Words are to be taken seriously. I try to take seriously acts of language. Words set things in motion. I've seen them doing it. Words set up atmospheres, electrical fields, charges.”
“Words are too easy. Therefore, never speak them unless you intend to act upon whatever they’re saying.”
“Words are tools of imagery in motion.”
“Words are tools which automatically carve concepts out of experience.”
Source: Man in the Modern World
“Words are treacherous.”
Source: Zen Light
“Words are tricky. Sometimes you need them to bring out the hurt festering inside. If you don't, it turns gangrenous and kills you. . . . But sometimes words can break a feeling into pieces.”
“Words are truly the image of the soul.”
“Words are useless, especially sentences.”
“Words are very good, but it is actions going forward that count!”
“Words are very much my thing. I'm very picky and choosy with them. So, I kind of edit myself to the point of, almost stumping myself, sometimes.”
“Words are very powerful and can lead anyone reading them or hearing them, into contemplation and insight. How the mind follows suit is rarely palpable or expected. This impact is not a matter of metaphysical effects nor of an unexplainable phenomenon. It’s simply part of being human.”
“Words are very powerful. They live on forever and they can be shared again and again. Each one of us may find something different within them, but they have the power to truly guide us and impact us in our lives.”
Source: The Gatekeeper and her Guardian
“Words are water in this city. One drop of rumour could drown us.”
Source: The Miniaturist
“Words are weapons of war.”
“Words are weapons of warfare.”
“Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy.”
Source: The Works of George Santayana: Scepticism and animal faith. Some meanings of the word
“Words are what created our world. Words are what keep it going.”
“Words are what make the song. I get a personal vision about what the lyrics are about.”
“Words are what sticks to the real. We use them to push the real, to drag the real into the poem. They are what we hold on with, nothing else. They are as valuable in themselves as rope with nothing to be tied to.”
Source: My Vocabulary Did this to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer
“Words are what you fight with but what you fight about is whether or not you're afraid of them.”
“Words are where most change begins.”
Source: Words of Radiance
“Words are wind, and the wind that blows exiles across the narrow sea seldom blows them back.”
Source: The Winds of Winter
“Words are wind, but wind can fan a fire. My father and my uncle fought words with steel and flame. We shall fight words with words, and put out the fires before they start.”
Source: Fire & Blood
“Words are wind, Brienne told herself. They cannot hurt you. Let them wash over you.”
Source: A Feast for Crows: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Four