Words Quotes

The Law is but words and paper without the hands of swords of men.

Music is only love looking for words.

All I'm writing is just what I feel, that's all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland.

At the end of the day, the only things that are shovel ready around here are the words coming out of Barack Obama and Joe Biden's mouth.

Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ever written, we go back to the greatest songs and bring about my interpretation of them.

There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.

When a singer truly feels and experiences what the music is all about, the words will automatically ring true.

It is also difficult to articulate the subtleties in cinema, because there aren't words or metaphors which describe many of the emotions you are attempting to evoke.

I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.

If a commodity were in no way useful, - in other words, if it could in no way contribute to our gratification, - it would be destitute of exchangeable value, however scarce it might be, or whatever quantity of labour might be necessary to procure it.

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.

People often complain that music is too ambiguous, that what they should think when they hear it is so unclear, whereas everyone understands words. With me, it is exactly the opposite, and not only with regard to an entire speech but also with individual words.

Under adversity, under oppression, the words begin to fail, the easy words begin to fail. In order to convey things accurately, the human being is almost forced to find the most precise words possible, which is a precondition for literature.

If I were dying my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.

Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.

Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.

Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.

I can hear you and I can watch your mouth move, and then I put together the sounds and the visual image, and I can understand the words as I integrate the two signals.

When deeds speak, words are nothing.

That which I have set out in Latin is not my words but the words of God and of apostles and prophets, who of course have never lied. He who believes shall be saved, but he who does not believe shall be damned. God has spoken.

But words - words are not enough!

Words are the basic tools, if you are a writer. But why? Why do you choose one set of tools rather than another?

At that point, I sat down and made an alphabetical list of all the crime related words I could think of. So here I am now, nearly half-way through, probably tied up until the year 2015 or SO.

In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better.

There's a great power in words, if you don't hitch too many of them together.

Kennedy did not have to run the risk of having his ideas and his words shortened and adulterated by a correspondent. This was the television era, not only in campaigning, but in holding the presidency.

Telling your story out loud is the way human beings communicate. We don't normally think up words, translate how to spell them and then move our fingers up and down over this randomly arranged set of keys to make the same letters appear on a screen.

Everything that Traffic ever did, I'd give Steve a complete lyric, titled, written out with the verse, the bridge, the shape and rhyme and then Steve had to figure out how the meter of the words would fit musically.

I don't know if I have a technique. I'm just trying to remember the words.