Words Quotes

Words are impotent to describe certain emotions.

A few years ago, I bought an old red bicycle with the words Free Spirit written across its side - which is exactly what I felt like when I rode it down the street in a tie-dyed dress.

To all those who have drawn the inference from my words that Africa, as a continent, is somehow genetically inferior, I can only apologise unreservedly.

A flow of words is a sure sign of duplicity.

Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.

The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Say what you have to say in the fewest possible words.

When I write a song, it's all about the riff - the riff first, then the words come later.

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

Rappers tend to use words sometimes that just rhyme and don't really mean nothing.

A lot of words in English confuse the idea of life and electricity, like the word livewire.

Through the inspiration of Vaclav's words, the courage of his dissidence and the integrity of his leadership, Czechoslovakia successfully transitioned from an authoritarian state to a free democracy at the heart of Europe.

Omit needless words.

By the time I got to record my first album, I was 26, I didn't need pen or paper - my memory had been trained just to listen to a song, think of the words, and lay them to tape.

Words and pictures can work together to communicate more powerfully than either alone.

Writing can be a very solitary business. It's you sat at a desk typing words into a computer. It can get lonely sometimes and lots of writers live quite isolated lives.

The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.

Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator.

Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.

We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.

Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

Nevertheless there are certain peaks, canons, and clear meadow spaces which are above all compassing of words, and have a certain fame as of the nobly great to whom we give no familiar names.

If you look closely, there is no book more visual than Three Trapped Tigers, in that it is filled with blank pages, dark pages, it has stars made of words, the famous magical cube made of numbers, and there is even a page which is a mirror.

All books are either dreams or swords, you can cut, or you can drug, with words.

People do not want words - they want the sound of battle - the battle of destiny.

When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.

The harshness and choice of words can cut deeply. Republicans need to show compassion and to be reasonable when talking to any ethnic group.