Always have something to say. The man who has something to say and who is known never to speak unless he has, is sure to be listened to.�
Men who have much to say use the fewest words.
He who thinks much says but little in proportion to his thoughts. He selects that language which will convey his ideas in the most explicit and direct manner. He tries to compress as much thought as possible into a few words. On the contrary, the man who talks everlastingly and promiscuously, who seems to have an exhaustless magazine of sound, crowds so many words into his thoughts that he always obscures, and very frequently conceals them.
We should remember that saying 'I love you' is only a beginning. We need to say it, we need to mean it, and most importantly we need consistently to show it. We need to both express and demonstrate love.
What is required is not a lot words, but effectual ones.
There aren't any magical words, really. Words just hold the magic.
Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it.
Words should be only the clothes, carefully custom-made to fit the thought.
Words matter, words have import.
The word courage - God, I love that word. Words are so important to me.
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
I have to take what I say and make it heavy, so every single bar means something. And there's no riddles in my rhymes. Every single word means something.
Hank Cochran was a man of very few words, but certainly the words that he chose were the right ones to use.
Language is powerful. Words matter.
The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you can't understand them. The best sentence? The shortest.
Good words do not last long unless they amount to something.
Why do we say 'Have a great weekend?' That's just a spell. You're just going - I have no control over your weekend. But words matter. They change our interior world. Have a great weekend.
Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.
God gave you that gifted tongue of yours, and set it between your teeth, to make known your true meaning to us, not to be rattled like a muffin man's bell.
The idea of political content is irrelevant. Content is irrelevant. I always tell my students, "Never forget you're writing words! You know, word one, word two, word three, word four. The words have to be organized. Nothing else does."
Peter remained very quiet and shy, but when he spoke it made sense.
The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.
If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology is pronounced to be a collection of meaningless words about unintelligible chimeras, then I have no doubt, and I think few people doubt.
I guess quotes make me feel more connected.
As a flower that is lovely and beautiful, but is scentless, even so fruitless is the well-spoken word of one who practices it not.
