Sticks and stones may break my bones but your words were always the hardest.
Words are the bricks of our world and they have the power to change it.
I try to be a positive light in this cold dark world... if only with a few words from deep within my heart, I try
More sailors have drowned in words than in the sea.
The words of truth are always paradoxical.
I'm incredibly sad that my mother's not here to see my kids and that my kids don't get to know her. And she didn't meet my husband. That's one of the hardest things. I don't even know how to put that...
Whenever ideas fail, men invent words.
Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.
It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.
Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.
That speaking the words, even if true, had little power to change the inevitable or even make him feel much better.
Some people make tunes, but it is lines that run like moving messages through my head. Whatever else I am saying and doing often has no bearing on this inner, verbal life.
My silences had not protected me. Your silence will not protect you. But for every real word spoken, for every attempt I had ever made to speak those truths for which I am still seeking, I had made co...
When I wrote 'The Giver,' it contained no so-called 'bad words.' It was set, after all, in a mythical, futuristic, and Utopian society. Not only was there no poverty, divorce, racism, sexism, pollutio...
We have these words 'space' and 'time,' but you can't touch them. They're not objects, they're not things, they go forever. Space and time are really tools of animal sense perception, the way we organ...
The magic of the tongue is the most dangerous of all spells.
What do you think was the first sound to become a word, a meaning?...I imagined two people without words, unable to speak to each other. I imagined the need: The color of the sky that meant 'storm.' T...
People talk a lot but they rarely say anything.
Freedom of speech means setting words free. Imprisoned and freed words are consequential. All words have consequences. Restrain and release words with respect for their consequentialness.
My head is a hive of words that won't settle.