WORDS QUOTES III

quotations about words


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Words are a pretty fuzzy substitute for mathematical equations.

ISAAC ASIMOV
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Foundation and Empire


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Words are not necessary to one's experience of the true life.

DON DELILLO

Point Omega


Words are sometimes signs of ideas; sometimes of the want of them.

ELIZA COOK

Diamond Dust

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Words are the least reliable purveyor of Truth.

NEALE DONALD WALSCH

Conversations with God

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Words are words, and there are no cross-platform kinks to work out. But when it comes to emoji characters, things get a bit trickier.

JESSAMINE MOLLI & DANIEL HUBBARD

"Lost in Translation: How texting emojis between different devices can turn disastrous", Slate, February 10, 2016


Words can carry any burden we wish. All that's required is agreement and a tradition upon which to build.

FRANK HERBERT

God Emperor of Dune


Words come reluctantly to me, they clatter in my mouth and tumble out heavily like stones.

J. M. COETZEE

In the Heart of the Country

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Words have not the color of the rose
Nor the beauty of the morn!

EDWIN CURRAN

"The Depths of Love"


Written words as well as spoken words are not always taken the way they are meant to be taken, so never hesitate to ask, "I am not sure what you mean by that?" Facial expressions and tone of voice play a large role in our understanding, but communication is the key to living in harmony with others.

ELIZABETH SCHADRACK

"Valley Voice: Common sense moves can ease societal woes", The Desert Sun, February 10, 2016


You know, without my telling you, how sometimes a word or name eludes you, and you seek it through running ghosts of shadow -- leaping at it, lying in wait for it to spring upon it, spreading faint snares for it of sense or sound: until, of a sudden, as if in a phantom forest, you hear it, see it flash among the branches, and scarcely knowing how, suddenly have it.

CONRAD AIKEN

The House of Dust

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A man does not die for words. He dies for his relation to them.

ROBERT PENN WARREN

A Place To Come To

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A word in earnest is as good as a speech.

CHARLES DICKENS

Bleak House

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A word is dead
When it is said,
Some say.
I say it just
Begins to live
That day.

EMILY DICKINSON

"A Word is Dead"

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Always having to have the last word is a bad trait. Pisses people off.

LAURELL K. HAMILTON

The Lunatic Cafe

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Behind every word a whole world is hidden that must be imagined. Actually, every word has a great burden of memories, not only just of one person but of all mankind. Take a word such as bread, or war; take a word such as chair, or bed or Heaven. Behind every word is a whole world. I'm afraid that most people use words as something to throw away without sensing the burden that lies in a word.

HEINRICH BÖLL

The Paris Review, spring 1983

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Contrary to what some people have tried to imply, the meaning of a word can be, to a great extent, a subjective experience. After all, words are really just ideas. Those ideas are layered in experiences unique to each individual's perspective. That means that we may not be using our terms in the same exact manner as we might think others are. If that isn't bad enough, those unique ideas might, or might not be rooted in fact. These things should force us to reflect on the thought that perhaps even the few words we do use are not as well defined or universal as some would have us believe.

DAVID BUCIENSKI

"How much do words really matter?", Southgate News Herald, March 9, 2017


Flaubert's famous search for the "mot juste" was not a search for words that glow alone, but for words so precisely placed that in combination with other words, also precisely placed, they carve out a shape in space and time.

STANLEY FISH

How to Write a Sentence: And How to Read One

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I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony.

GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

November

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If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, or everyday clothes, hung up in a sacred place.

GEORGE ELIOT

The Mill on the Floss

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It feels like spoken words, this bridge. I want it but fear it. God, I want so desperately to reach the other side -- just like I want the words. I want my words to build bridges strong enough to walk on. I want them to tower over the world so I can stand up on them and walk to the other side.

MARKUS ZUSAK

Getting the Girl

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