Words Quotes

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

We have as many planes of speech as does a painting planes of perspective which create perspective in a phrase. The most important word stands out most vividly defined in the very foreground of the sound plane. Less important words create a series of deeper planes.

The real difference between the United States and other nations lies not in the words of the preamble to the Constitution, but in the fact that the substantive clauses of that Constitution are enforced by individuals independent of and not beholden to the elected branches.

This was the man, this Balaam, I say, was the man, who desired to die the death of the righteous, and that his last end might be like his; and this was the state of his mind when he pronounced these words.

You want a hero in the music world? James Brown. He brought a feeling to music without really using words. He's just famous for his sound.

A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love.

Many young Japanese were hearing for the first time the words of Native people from the West.

If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed the deeper they burn.

When words leave off, music begins.

Actually, my correspondent's language is better than mine. He can put his sentiment into words.

Words are less needful to sorrow than to joy.

But if our sex would but well consider and rationally ponder, they will perceive and find that it is neither words nor place that can advance them, but worth and merit.

The problem is going to be finding the right words and implementing it in a way that is really dealing with people that are inciting and not preventing honest discussion of the underlying causes of this horrendous political situation the world is in now.

You are a woman: you must never speak what you think; your words must contradict your thoughts, but your actions may contradict your words.

Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.

Providing, meaning to a mass of unrelated needs, ideas, words and pictures - it is the designer's job to select and fit this material together and make it interesting.

Some of the songs are so crazy, the words are so crazy... it's hard to believe I was so crazy.

The oldest, shortest words - "yes" and "no" - are those which require the most thought.

Feeling has as much to say as the words do. You can have the greatest words in the world and if they're not believable, they don't strike a chord and they're not said convincingly, it's not a great song.

Words for mental processes are all derived from physical things.

Somehow, as a writer, you tend to use words to paper over structural cracks.

Everybody always tells you what an awesome and unique experience being a parent is. Words can never do the feeling justice.

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

I considered Nat King Cole to be a friend and, in many ways, a mentor. He always had words of profound advice.

I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.

Performance art is about joy, about making something that's so full of kind of a wild joy that you really can't put into words.

And of course, we know that opportunity lies outside the reach of some of our people. We don't need flowery words about inequality to tell us that, and we don't need a party that has led while poverty and hunger rose to record levels to give us lectures about suffering.

Silence is more eloquent than words.

The material came bubbling up inside like a geyser or an oil gusher. It streamed up of its own accord, down my arm and out of my fountain pen in a torrent of six thousand words a day.

Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.