Words Quotes

In other words, each piece of the building must look as though it was designed for that particular building.

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.

In fact, words are well adapted for description and the arousing of emotion, but for many kinds of precise thought other symbols are much better.

How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.

I can hardly find the words to describe the peace I felt when I was acting. My dysfunctional self could actually plug in to another self, not my own, and it felt so good.

In English, the sounds and melodies I created were an inspiration to me, and words came to me as I explored the sounds, and from there I was able expand on the meaning.

A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.

And to turn it into rap wasn't too difficult besides just rhymin' the last words of each line.

The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.

Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.

If atheism is to be used to express the state of mind in which God is identified with the unknowable, and theology is pronounced to be a collection of meaningless words about unintelligible chimeras, then I have no doubt, and I think few people doubt.

Here's the point to be made - there are no synonyms. There are no two words that mean exactly the same thing.

Yes and, you know, I can't use the nice words anymore because I used to chicken out by using them. I used to call myself plus size, used to call myself chubby. I used to call myself overweight.

So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken.

In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words with out a heart.

The sizes and shapes of the panels have never been important to my stories. It has always been the words and images that drew me in, kind of like watching a movie.

Words, like glass, obscure when they do not aid vision.

My buildings don't speak in words but by means of their own spaciousness.

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.

A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.

Sometimes we had to improvise. I hate to improvise because I felt like I couldn't find words.

American Gods is about 200,000 words long, and I'm sure there are words that are simply in there 'cause I like them. I know I couldn't justify each and every one of them.

In the silence of night I have often wished for just a few words of love from one man, rather than the applause of thousands of people.

The aim of the poet, or other artist, is first to make something; and it's impossible to make something out of words and not communicate.

You can put anything into words, except your own life.

I just say I'm an artist who works with pictures and words.

Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves.

The words of the songs speak for themselves.

In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.