“ Better channel your words into prayer, than into complaints. Zip your mouth and make a plan. Israelmore Ayivor
“ How would your life be different if…You pretended those around you were deaf to your words? Let today be the day…You let your actions speak and communicate your feelings and intentions. Steve Maraboli
“ The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my first homelands have been books, and to a lesser degree schools. Marguerite Yourcenar
“ As the chapters took shape, a change came over her. It was the double-sided recognition that this book, the last that she would write, might achieve esteem and success equal to her great novel, but th… Frederick Weisel
“ If we were to understand how important it is to say something and say it well, maybe we wouldn’t write a single word, but that would be tragic. Dejan Stojanovic
“ OBSOLETE, adj. No longer used by the timid. Said chiefly of words. A word which some lexicographer has marked obsolete is ever thereafter an object of dread and loathing to the fool writer, but if it… Ambrose Bierce
“ I had thought that words were instruments of precision. Now I know that they devour the world, leaving nothing in its place. Steven Millhauser
“ As I train myself to cast off words, as I learn to erase word-thoughts, I begin to feel a new world rising up around me, The old world of houses, rooms, trees and streets shimmers, wavers and tears aw… Steven Millhauser
“ A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket. Charles Peguy
“ Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced. Aldous Huxley
“ You alone in Europe are not ancient oh ChristianityThe most modern European is you Pope Pius XAnd you whom the windows observe shame keeps youFrom entering a church and confessing this morningYou read… Guillaume Apollinaire
“ Sometimes in composition class, when I have been confronted by someone who simply cannot get the first word written on paper, I give the following advice: Say your essay into a tape recorder and then… Maria Mazziotti Gillan
“ By giving words the latitude she does, (Marianne) Van Hirtum emphasizes their contagious qualities: they become almost like viruses, with which it is necessary to put oneself in harmony by sympathetic… Michael Richardson
“ You ask me why I don't speakNot a word at willBut write so much worth well over a mill'Well I value words like I value kissesA sober one, a closer one penetrates the heartDarling it's how it mends it Criss Jami
“ Equally, the surrealists consider words as witnesses of life acting in a direct way in human affairs. To use words properly it was necessary to treat them with respect, for they were the intermediarie… Michael Richardson
