Willie Morris Quotes

It took me years to understand that words are often as important as experience, because words make experience last.

Words are a commodity in which there is never any slump.

I believe words mean something. I really do.

Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.

Words are so awesome. Words are containers for power. They carry either creative power or destructive power.

There's a power in words. There's a power in being able to explain and describe and articulate what you know and feel and believe about the world, and about yourself.

I think there are some people for whom words are like food.

Words are what created our world. Words are what keep it going.

If it's one thing we learned from the first book, it's that you don't have to be a prizefighter, or a world-renowned architect, or a concert violinist to have been affected by the power of words.

Words are hotter than flames. Words are wetter than water.

Leave words to them whom words, not doings, move.

Get what you can with words, because words are free, but the words of an armed man ring that much sweeter.

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.

I'm the crazy one who thinks that words reach people.

I put a lot of stock in the written word, and the power of it. That's what I love about acting and reading scripts. Words are really powerful. I don't believe that axiom at all - words can absolutely hurt you. Words can wound. They can do a lot of damage. I think they can do way more damage than sticks and stones. I'll take sticks and stones.

It was strange how words meant something when they came out of your mouth. Inside your head they were safe and silent, but once they were outside, people grabbed hold of them.

What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others.

Words, mademoiselle, are only the outer clothing of ideas.

For when all else is done, on­ly words re­main. Words en­dure.

I wanted to tell him so. Find the right words, string them together in the ideal way, knowing that here they would have the best chance of sounding perfect.

You're all mad for words. Words are just farts from a lot of fools who have swallowed too many books. Give me things!

Speech is but the incorporation of thought.

Words were her plague and words were her redemption.

Language is a form of organized stutter.

Words, as you well know, can be powerful. - Digger