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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

Words are only containers like a canvas holds a painting.

What's in the essence of the words you convey through the sound of your voice? — Andrew Neff

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

Sometimes, authors' descriptions of unique fictional characters are like mirrors that reflect the readers image back. — Ben Abix

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

You are a creator of content, a wizard of words. They need you. Act like it. — Jeff Goins

My business is words. Words are like labels,
or coins, or better, like swarming bees. — Anne Sexton

Words, like angels, are powers which have invisible power over us ... — James Hillman

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

I don't like the words 'I'm fine'. My mom tells me those two words are the most-frequently-told lie in the English lenguage. — Kasie West

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

When you're hard and unyielding your words score me with lines - I hate lines - I want curves - curves are happy like a snowman ... — John Geddes

I do so like all-encompassing words. Verb, adjective, noun. Yes, you are shitted. — Kim Harrison

Words are like leaves, ... like people really, fond of their own society. — Jasper Fforde

Words to a writer is like notes to a musician, both know when they are off key. — June Davidson

English words are like prisms. Empty, nothing inside, and still they make rainbows. — Denis Johnson

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

Never use jargon words like 'reconceptualize', 'demassification', 'attitudinally', 'judgmentally'. They are hallmarks of a pretentious ass. — David Ogilvy

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

Words in a person's word stock are like paints on a palette. It helps to have just the right shade when you need it. — Anu Garg

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

Shelby watched the books burn. She wonders if words are pouring down on other people's houses,sad words, like beast and mourn and sorrow and mother. — Alice Hoffman

Words are like spices. Too many is worse than too few. — Joan Aiken

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

It's a pity we don't whistle at one another, like birds. Words are misleading. — Halldor Laxness

Welcome to a new year at Hogwarts! Before we begin our banquet, I would like to say a few words. And here they are: Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak! — J.K. Rowling

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 are things. A small drip of ink, falling like dew upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands, perhaps even millions. — Bryon

Words are like diamonds. Polish them too much, and all you get are pebbles. — Bryce Courtenay

Words, they say, are the food of minds. But, like other foods, they can do little by themselves. — Idries Shah

Words are charms. It's like a song you didn't even know you knew. — Ian Frazier

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

All these words are just a front. What I would really like to do is chain you to my body, then sing for days & days & days. — Hafez

Words are like knives ... If you use it the wrong way it transforms into a bad weapon. — Gosho Aoyama

In Sanskrit words are like living beings; depending on context, circumstance and environment their mood varies and meaning differs. — Amit Ray

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

They judged me like they would judge themselves and that's what they could never understand, we are all human but we are not the same. — Nikki Rowe

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

Words are like harpoons. Once they go in, they are very hard to pull out. — Fred Hoyle

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

Words are like swords, if you use them the wrong way, it'll turn into ugly weapons. — Gosho Aoyama

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

Words are like weapons; they wound sometimes. — Cher

The words are on my tongue - the rounded lumps of them, shining like the marbles beneath the tree. — Sue Monk Kidd

Living intensely each present day means letting Christ dwell within you. His words are so clear: Today I would like to enter your home. — Mother Teresa