Words Quotes

I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.

Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

They had the music being piped right out on the street. I'd be three or four blocks from there and I couldn't get there fast enough because I'd hear old Joe holler them words.

Our strength is not just in the size of our defense budget, but in the size of our hearts, in the size of our gratitude for their sacrifice. And that's not just measured in words or gestures.

David Brinkley was an icon of modern broadcast journalism, a brilliant writer who could say in a few words what the country needed to hear during times of crisis, tragedy and triumph.

I wanted to cut down on the profanity, because I think I'm funnier without sayin' a lot of cuss words.

In other words, I wouldn't like to be an actor if I could only be real. I like to get wild, behaviorally wild, and it's crazy to think of any form where it's just one way.

But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.

When I did plays in high school and college, I never remember memorizing my lines, but once I had blocking, I had all my lines memorized. Once I had movement associated with words, it was fine. Before I had blocking, it was just text on a page. Once it became embodied, it was much easier.

The artist deals in what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.

Because Shakespeare's language is so expansive, we're under this misconception that it's difficult. But I discovered that it's easy because it's so brilliantly written. The words are perfect, and the language is intelligent and very emotional.

I have a notebook with me all the time, and I begin scribbling a few words. When things are going well, the walk does not get anywhere; I finally just stop and write.

I love cover songs, but I always mess up the words!

Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words.

Words are made for a certain exactness of thought, as tears are for a certain degree of pain. What is least distinct cannot be named; what is clearest is unutterable.

Take it not amiss, O speech, that I borrow weighty words, and later try hard to make them seem light.

Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see.

I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all.

Guard your roving thoughts with a jealous care, for speech is but the dialer of thoughts, and every fool can plainly read in your words what is the hour of your thoughts.

Very early in life I became fascinated with the wonders language can achieve. And I began playing with words.

Songs are life in 80 words or less.

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or in other words a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read and say and eat and drink and wear.

Words may be false and full of art; Sighs are the natural language of the heart.

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.

A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words.

Paul Schofield said something like, 'If I'm not acting in a play, I don't really exist.' Those weren't the exact words, but he meant it's only when I'm acting in a play that I've got something to say about the world. And then why should I talk, when people can come to see it?

Hermione uses all these big long tongue twister words. I don't know what she's going on about half the time!

I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

I think of painting without subject matter as music without words.