Words Quotes

Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins.

Words can have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbit and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used.

This is what I want in heaven... words to become notes and conversations to be symphonies.

I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises - but only performance is reality.

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

I was so embarrassed about mispronouncing words. I just knew how to smile.

Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words.

I would have to work on the song and figure out how they wanted the song done, because they're such high-intensity songs. We figure that out first, then I go back and listen to it and go over and rehearse stuff with it and try to get a feel for the words.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

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

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.

Where I come from, deeds mean a lot more than words.

Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words.

Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.

I had one companion. He was a teacher from the Ukraine who spoke English so we could communicate a bit. I learnt a few Russian words, but it was hard to concentrate.

Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?

I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens.

The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words.

Time made me change. I gradually woke up to the realization that this is who I am, an author, a public figure, and I couldn't just hide in my study, tapping away at the keyboard and pretend that I didn't have a role to play beyond stringing words together.

I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words.

I write a thousand words a day.

Acting has to do with saying it as if you meant it, so for me the words are always very important. It's very important for me to know my lines, know them so well that I don't have to think about them.

I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics.

I truly enjoy directing. I enjoy looking at the words on the paper and visualizing how to make them come to life.

Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.

A lie does not consist in the indirect position of words, but in the desire and intention, by false speaking, to deceive and injure your neighbour.

It's hard to decide how to match words to music. It's not like it's twice the work. It's always difficult for me to explain to the composer what I'm looking for. I'm not a professional; I lack even basic knowledge about writing music.

I really wanted it to be organic and coming from my heart. So, I think maybe the initial thought of wanting to go in that direction, I had to wait until things happened in our world and in our country that fired me up enough where the words came out organically.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.