Garth Stein Quotes

People like to say, 'What do you mean exactly?' I would answer, 'I mean, but not exactly.'

Words are all we have.

Words are slippery and thoughts are vicious.

... nothing is more human than substituting the quantity of words and actions for their character. But using imprecise words is very similar to using lots of words, for the more imprecise a word is, the greater the area it covers.

Hey can mean anything. It can mean yes, it can mean maybe, it could mean no, it could mean next week. Hey, the bottom line is you have to understand me to understand hey.

It's a difficult competition against silence, because silence is a perfect language, the only language which says with no words.

If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words.

Words are not pebbles in alien juxtaposition.

A quote is just a tattoo on the tongue.

In any interview, you do say more or less than you mean.

Words are so lovable. How could you not love words?

Curiously enough, it seems to be only in describing a mode of language which does not mean what it says that one can actually say what one means.

Something's that written out is okay, but it's not always a clear indication of what a person means.

In labouring to be concise, I become obscure.

Any story that I can consider worth telling is one that you could tell in words.

Words are powerful. When I make mistakes I just try to come back and clarify what I meant.

Words are much better at relating emotions and thoughts.

There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.

I like words. Words are places, rooms, distant airs, thin and tropical. They make us feel and imagine we are more than our bodies.

Words are the tools of 'to be' - of expression. They are completely built on the fact that you 'are,' and in order to express it, you have built a little alphabet, and you make your words from it.

Words make love with one another.

The only thing you have to know are your words.

Words are the small change of thought.

Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.