Words Quotes

What makes me furious, not just because we're in an interview, but I don't like when writers take your words and put them somewhere else, in the wrong context in their own article about you.

Words began to appear in English and to make some kind of equivalent. For what satisfaction it is hard to say, except that something seems unusually piercing, living, handsome, in another language, and since English is yours, you wish it to be there too.

We die in proportion to the words we fling around us.

I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words.

My wife was too beautiful for words, but not for arguments.

I know already the music I will write. But the words? I have not yet decided.

These are fountains of salvation that they who thirst may be satisfied with the living words they contain. In these alone is proclaimed the doctrine of godliness. Let no man add to these, neither let him take out from these.

I would recommend the short story form, which is a lot harder to write since you have to be so careful with words, until there is plenty of time to doodle through a novel.

Words are cheap. The biggest thing you can say is 'elephant'.

War is big and there are only so many reporters and only so many places for their words and images to appear. Choices are made constantly.

However one might pray - in any verbal way or completely without words - is unimportant to God. What matters is the heart's intent.

Everybody has a language or code that they use with their wife or their girlfriend or boyfriend or what have you. It's a language aside from the language they have with strangers. I've always been maybe an abuser of alliteration, but I've always loved it and I like how those words sound together.

So many struggled so that all of us could have a voice in this great democracy and live up to the first three words of our constitution: We the people. I love that phrase so much. Throughout our country's history, we've expanded the meaning of that phrase to include more and more of us. That's what it means to move forward.

Beneath words and logic are emotional connections that largely direct how we use our words and logic.

I've always loved words. I ate up all the books I could get my hands on, and when I couldn't get books, I read candy wrappers and labels on cereal and toothpaste boxes.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

How sweet the words of Truth, breathed from the lips of Love.

Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.

Poetry is thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.

Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions.

Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.

I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.

My emotions lose their force when I endeavor to interpret them, and my words seem very inept.

Be able to describe anything visual, such as a street scene, in words that convey your meaning.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.

Without words to objectify and categorize our sensations and place them in relation to one another, we cannot evolve a tradition of what is real in the world.

In nearly all ballads, the words set the mood and meaning, while the music intensifies or enhances them.

I think Shakespeare is really the one. Words as music and music as words. Everything he wrote was good, which is really frightening.

Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific.

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.