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I don't know how to answer. I know what I think, but words in the head are like voices underwater. They are distorted.
— Jeanette Winterson
What's he like?" "Thoughtful. Interesting. Compassionate." "These are English words for ugly.
— Chris Cleave
Words without action are like wheels without traction. It is how you live that counts.
— Geoff Thompson
To use bitter words, when kind words are at hand,Is like picking unripe fruit when the ripe fruit is there.
— Thiruvalluvar
Words like "patience", and "kindness", and "goodness". They are the words of a hero.
— Mark Andrew Poe
Call me an alarmist, but there are certain words I don't like to hear together: cheap fireplace, discount brakes, cut-rate surgery ...
— Margo Kaufman
There are times when the world is rearranging itself, and at times like that, the right words can change the world.
— Orson Scott Card
It's as though the words are trapped, buried under past fears, past lives, like fossils compressed under layers of dirt.
— Lauren Oliver
Lahiri's characters, just like people all around us, are constantly telling each other important things, but not necessarily in words.
— Will Schwalbe
I think I have something valid to say. My words are my bullets. I like to brag that somehow I got it right.
— John Lydon
Sometimes words need music too. Sometimes the descriptions are not enough. Books should be written with soundtracks, like films.
— Terry Pratchett
It'd be tricky to read into my lyrics - some are autobiographical, but sometimes I just like the sound of words.
— Max Tundra
Wise words are like arrows flung at your forehead. What do you do? Why, you duck of course.
— Steven Erikson
There are three words I like to repeat to myself: glass half full. Just to remind myself to be grateful for everything I have.
— Goldie Hawn
Words are, like wines.
— Santosh Kalwar
There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one, Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on.
— James Russell Lowell
I have things in my head that are not like what anyone taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me,so natural to my way of being and thinking.
— Georgia O'Keeffe
My words are like Mummy: butterflies trapped inside a net.
— Holly Bodger
Maybe he knew it and maybe he didn't, but for someone like me, words like that are worth all the medals in the world.
— R.J. Palacio
Mystery always there in my words, now these are knives and will shine like Swords-Samar Sudha — Samar Sudha
Words are like eggs dropped from great heights. You can't ever put the pieces back together after they hit home.
— Amaleka McCall
She is like all the rest of them. Whether they are seventeen or fortyseven, when they finally come to surrender completely, it's going to be in words.
— William Faulkner
The"b" word and the "n" word are like poison, whether you take poison from a vial or pour it into Bavarian crystal, it is still poison.
— Maya Angelou
There are words which cut like steel.
— Honore De Balzac
Words are like breath," she said, "you say them and they're gone. But writing traps them.
— Bernard Cornwell
Names are unique sounds and cadences of words that are attached to one specific individual-sort of like a kind of theme music.
— Jim Butcher
Success cannot come like osmosis ; hardwork , commitment and faithfulness are the common ingredients .
— Osunsakin Adewale
Proverbs 18:8 8 The words of a gossip are like choice morsels; they go down to the inmost parts.
— Anonymous
Words, like acts, become stale when they are repeated.
— Ellen Glasgow
I like to quote the words of Kierkegaard, that 'life ia a poem that we are able to write ourselves; but a Christian lets God write his life's poem.
— Nathan Soderblom
The words of the LORD are pure words, like silver refined in a furnace on the ground, purified seven times.
— Anonymous
Words like feminism or democracy scare me. They are words with barnacles on them, and you can't see what's underneath.
— William Collins
Words are like Leaves; and where they most abound,Much Fruit of Sense beneath is rarely found. — Alexander Pope
There are times when words are extra, like raindrops on drenched grass. There are times for holding. He held her ...
— Bud Macfarlane Jr.
When someone can fill such words with the depth of meaning that they are intended to have, it's like hearing them for the first time.
— Orville Schell
I like words. Words are places, rooms, distant airs, thin and tropical. They make us feel and imagine we are more than our bodies.
— Rickie Lee Jones
Words are like coin - it pays to hoard.""Until you die on a bed of gold," Paran said. — Steven Erikson
Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.
— William Shakespeare
It's more like, you are mine forever, should you agree and give me the words back. And now I am yours forever, whether you agree or not.
— Karen Marie Moning
In many ways my life has been rather like a record of the lost and found. Perhaps all lives are like that.
— Lucy Foley
The trouble is, sometimes words are like arrows. Once you shoot them, there's no going back.
— Jess Rothenberg
We are surrounded by the dry thorns of the Inquisition on all four sides; throwing around words burning like fire is the shortest way to one's grave!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
My words are the garment of what I shall never be Like the tucked sleeve of a one-armed boy. — W.S. Merwin
Words ... You are warm and wet, and your body grips me like it doesn't want me to leave.
— Anonymous
Words in a poem are like petals on a flower, only together, in the right position, at the right time are they seen as they should be.
— David McDonald
Sometimes words are just music themselves. Like 'Chicago' is a very musical sounding name.
— Tom Waits
Words are such small things, like confetti in the brain, and yet they are color and clarify everything, they can stain the mind or warp the feelings.
— Diane Ackerman
There are about 30 words around you all the time, like 'thread' or 'exit.'
— Jean-Michel Basquiat
Like a fine flower, beautiful to look at but without scent, fine words are fruitless in a man who does not act in accordance with them.
— Gautama Buddha
There are days I drop words of comfort on myself like falling leaves and remember that it is enough to be taken care of by my self.
— Brian Andreas
We are refined like gold, with every adversity endured.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
His words come out like a growl, "You are mine.
— Aleatha Romig
Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter.
— Peter De Vries
Words are naught but wind, and the fairest promises like dreams that take flight with the morning.
— Edouard Rene De Laboulaye
I like to quote Shakespeare. But in this case, the rapper Eminem said it best: Words are a motherfucker.
— Jillian Keenan
A poet's words are like mortar to the bricks of society.
— Jason E. Hodges
And the words we find are always insufficient, like love, though they are often lovely and all we have.
— Stephen Dunn
And a lot of times in slam poetry I feel like people are so worried about the performance that the words might not be as strong.
— Amber Tamblyn
Evening words are not like to morning.
— George Herbert
Words, they say, are the food of minds. But, like other foods, they can do little by themselves.
— Idries Shah
Words are like wild birds - they will come when they wish, not when they are bidden.
— Joyce Carol Oates
You people sometimes are like those serial killers you see in films who cut out the words 'I am going to get you' or 'your wife is next'.
— Gordon Strachan
Words are like knives ... If you use it the wrong way it transforms into a bad weapon.
— Gosho Aoyama
Words are useless without action. Stop fantasizing and just DO it. Be a "game changer" or get played like an idiot.
— Ziad K. Abdelnour
Words are wind, even words like love and peace. I put more trust in deeds.
— George R R Martin
Who knows why some words ignite the hearts of some readers while others are like wet matches that won't light.
— Phil Cousineau
Gracious words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the body.
— Deborah Palumbo
Words are important. They let you know it's real, you're fine, more people like you exist. They let you know you're not alone.
— RoAnna Sylver
I know that shorter messages are better in terms of reply rate. The optimal length is something like 50 characters. Characters, not words.
— Christian Rudder
His words are like seawater to the shipwrecked: I'm tempted to drink them in, and at the same time, they feel dangerously deceptive.
— Kerry Kletter
The words of some men are thrown forcibly against you and adhere like burrs.
— Henry David Thoreau
The Humans is a laugh-and-cry book. Troubling, thrilling, puzzling, believable and impossible. Matt Haig uses words like a tin-opener. We are the tin.
— Jeanette Winterson
