W Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with W. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Words fall short sometimes.”
“Words fascinate me. They always have. For me, browsing in a dictionary is like being turned loose in a bank.”
Source: The way I see it
“Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter.”
“Words feel like an insult to truth (then again, even on life’s bright days I feel as though I’m throwing meaning into darkness when I speak).”
Source: Rough Magic: Riding the World's Loneliest Horse Race
“Words felt so clumsy when she was talking about feelings and not facts.”
Source: Untold
“Words floating in air, lines cut on a page, stanzas carved into units. Poetry is a mode of associative thinking that takes a different route to knowledge than philosophy, its ancient antagonist. It follows its own wayward but resolute path.”
Source: Best American Poetry 2016
“Words flow on the electricity of thoughts”
“Words for mental processes are all derived from physical things.”
Source: Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings
“Words form the sinew and muscle that hold societies upright, he argued. Consider the Koran, the Bible, the American Constitution, but also letters from fathers to sons, last wills, blessings, curses. Thousands upon thousands of words infused with the full spectrum of emotions fill in the nooks and corners of human life.”
“Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.”
Source: The collected works of Aldous Huxley
“Words form the thread on which we string our experiences. [Therefore be careful how you interpret your life. Don't think or speak negatively lest your subconscious and others take you at your word and you are hung by your own tongue!]”
“Words from the past: "It's a clever idea, Mr. Bell, but don't wire us, we'll wire you.”
“Words full of kindness; they are noble truth and eternal light, on the dew drops of the innocent morning.”
“Words give inspiration, nothing more. You want redemption? The very thing you seek inspiration for? Fight for it like your life depended on it, because it always does.”
Source: Rise of the Morningstar
“Words give me hope
my mind find peace,
only the words can heal
Tranquility is there, that's what I feel.”
“Words give my sentence meaning.”
“Words give wings to the mind and make a man soar to heaven.”
Source: The Birds
“Words got in the way. The things we felt the hardest--like what it was like to have a boy touch you as if you were made of light, or what it meant to be the only person in the room who wasn't noticed--weren't sentences; they were knots in the wood of our bodies, places where our blood flowed backward. If you asked me, not that anyone ever did, the only words worth saying were I'm sorry.”
Source: Handle with Care: A Novel
“Words got the power to hurt or heal.”
Source: Book of Birds
“Words had a purpose. Language had a purpose; I’d wrongly assumed that my mother wouldn’t misuse it (229)”
Source: Ivy Lodge: A Memoir of Translation and Discovery
“Words had become overnight just little coins, insignificant and unfreighted, to be exchanged for ribbons, buttons, for an apple or an egg.”
“Words had started swimming off the page, circling my head, the letters doing one-eighties as if they were riding skateboards.”
Source: Demigods and Monsters: Your Favorite Authors on Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series
“Words had this certain power; the more you said things, the realer they became. But if you don't say them, you can't address them.”
Source: Unwanted
“Words have a genealogy and it's easier to trace the evolution of a single word than the evolution of a language.”
“Words have a life; without response they die.”
“Words have a longer life than deeds.”
“Words have a love for each other, a desire that culminates in poetry.”
Source: Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures
“Words have a magical power. They can bring either the greatest happiness or deepest despair; they can transfer knowledge from teacher to student; words enable the orator to sway his audience and dictate its decisions. Words are capable of arousing the strongest emotions and prompting all men's actions.”
“Words have a magical power. They can either bring the greatest happiness or the deepest despair.”
“Words have a universe of qualities other than those of descriptive relation: Hardness, Density, Sound-Shape, Vector-Force, & Degrees of Transparency/Opacity.”
“Words have always been political, and that means that, in many people's minds, dictionaries are political. Because that's what dictionaries do: they do words.”
“Words have always swirled around me like snowflakes-each one delicate and different, each one melting untouched in my hands.”
Source: Out of my mind
“Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.”
Source: A Little Learning: The First Volume of an Autobiography
“Words have become just hollow words”
“Words have consequences, and I judge people not only by their words but what they do. And if you look at people who have a pattern, who've built a career out of dividing people and who built a career out of often not just Obama but finding ways to degrade and diminish African-Americans and African-American leaders. It's racist to consistently make your living on the backs of black people.”
“Words have divided man from woman,
one from another, this from that,
until only sages know how to put things together.
Without words, without even understanding,
lovers find each other.
The moment of finding is always a surprise,
like meeting an old friend never before known.”
“Words have finished flirting. Now they are making love.”
“Words have great cumulative power, but in the 21st century, a single image is much stronger. An image suggests the unvarnished truth. That is its power and its fiction.”
Source: Notes from the Trail: Presidential Politics from the Inside Out
“Words have incredible power, especially for a man in your esteemed position.”
Source: Mob Justice: A Scavenger Hunt Thriller
“Words have incredible power. They can make people's hearts soar, or they can make people's hearts sore.”
“Words have longer lives than people.”
Source: Fox Forever: The Jenna Fox Chronicles
“Words have meaning, and we should respect them.”
Source: Compleat Gentleman: The Modern Man's Guide to Chivalry
“Words have meaning, type has spirit.”
“Words have meaning. And their meaning doesn't change.”
“Words have never belonged to those who wrote them. Always to those who needed then.”
“Words have no eraser. Once they leave your mouth, there is no way of making them disappear. Speak with care. Keep a level head and choose your words well, for they can help or worsen any circumstance.”
Source: 365 Motivational Life Lessons
“Words have no language which can utter the secrets of love; and beyond the limits of expression is the expounding of desire.”
“Words have no meaning if they’re not exposed to action. Action has no power if it’s not interpreted to words.”
“Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.”
“Words have no power when someone isn't listening to you anymore”