Words Quotes

I asked Ring Lardner the other day how he writes his short stories, and he said he wrote a few widely separated words or phrases on a piece of paper and then went back and filled in the spaces.

So, not for lack of love of language, but because I feel our language is in an enormous state of humiliation, I decided to make films without words.

When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.

You guys are both saying the same thing. The only reason you're arguing is because you're using different words.

When he was born, I looked at my little boy and felt an unconditional love I never knew was inside me. As he grew, and I watched him stagger about, squeak his first words, and turn into a beautiful little boy, that feeling did not change.

Many words are not wanting to show that the particular view of each court occasioned the dangers which affected the public tranquillity; yet the whole is charged to my account. Nor is this sufficient.

If I told you the words, you wouldn't believe them anyway.

We don't communicate in full sentences anyway. We don't need all those words.

The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.

I compose my own stuff. I've been writing songs with words. I've been playing more on the keyboard because I can transpose it to sheet music on the computer.

Prayer is talking with God. God knows your heart and is not so concerned with your words as He is with the attitude of your heart.

The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.

The way I write, words can means lots of different things.

Paul Simon started piling up a lot of words, more than the bar could handle, and I stopped!

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.

A poor choice of words conveyed to some the impression that I embrace the discarded policies of the past. Nothing could be further from the truth, and I apologize to anyone who was offended by my statement.

When I was in the ring at the Olympics, it was my father's words that I was hearing, not the coaches'. 'I never listened to what the coaches said. I would call my father and he would give me advice from prison.

Poetry: the best words in the best order.

People enjoy sitting back knowing they won't hear a lot of four-letter words.

I think Shakespeare is like a dialect. If I heard a broad Scots accent, I'd probably struggle at first but then I'd start to look for words I recognise and I'd get the gist. I think Shakespeare is like that.

Lawyers are men who hire out their words and anger.

But friends invited me to a private screening of Emmanuelle and said I'd learn a few things. But I know all the swear words. I just don't use them. So I declined.

Kind thoughts are rarer than either kind words or deeds. They imply a great deal of thinking about others. This in itself is rare. But they also imply a great deal of thinking about others without the thoughts being criticisms. This is rarer still.

I loved words. I love to sing them and speak them and even now, I must admit, I have fallen into the joy of writing them.

Words want to find chimes with each other, things want to connect.

Good words will not give me back my children.

I guess for me what is more significant than success is the nature of each of the songs and of the words.

My training was that you fill in the canvas where it needs colour and polishing. You start with the words on the first night and keep adding bits of business.

It was really hard explaining the Web before people just got used to it because they didn't even have words like click and jump and page.