Words Quotes

Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work.

I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual word. But schools don't do things like that anymore - tracking words down to their roots.

Some of the substance of English words, I just don't understand at all because the culture's so strange to me.

I put the words down and push them a bit.

There are times over different projects when I've asked the writers why people are swearing for no good reason. I tell them that it would be funnier if there weren't these swear words.

When I start to write, words have become physical presence. It was to see if I could bring that private world to life that found its first expression through reading. I really dislike the romantic notion of the artist.

It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.

Lying is done with words and also with silence.

When you do an interview with me, you're talking to a cheap imitation of the person that I really am. There's no magic in my words, it's just me talking.

Harmony is an obscure and difficult musical science, but most difficult to those who are not acquainted with the Greek language; because it is necessary to use many Greek words to which there are none corresponding in Latin.

His words and music weren't just joined; they were inseparably married.

The same words conceal and declare the thoughts of men.

A picture is worth a thousand words.

The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey.

I'm a woman of very few words, but lots of action.

Words are important to me, but a song can work and function and be a good song with words that are fairly standard. But really great lyrics can't rescue a dog of a song.

Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.

In Nicaragua, liberty, equality and the rule of law were the stuff of dreams. But in Paris I discovered the value of those words.

The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.

Your words smell of corpses.

In other words, what is supposedly found is an invention whose inventor is unaware of his act of invention, who considers it as something that exists independently of him; the invention then becomes the basis of his world view and actions.

I always write lyrics first and the rhythm and the melody come from the lyrics. It always comes from the lyrics: words have rhythm and words have melody.

Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.

Poetry does not consist of words alone; there must be sentiment and fancy, combination and arrangement.

Let us lose none of their humble words, let us note their slightest gestures, and tell me, tell me that we will think of them together, now and later, when we realise the misery of the times and the magnitude of their sacrifice.

I have to chose my words carefully.

To chase an athlete that really doesn't want to speak with you and when you finally get him, gives you three words and you have to write a story based on three words of information he gave you, that's pretty tough.

I say myself no depressed words just depressed minds.

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.