Words Quotes

In human intercourse the tragedy begins, not when there is misunderstanding about words, but when silence is not understood.

Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.

I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.

One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.

Poets are soldiers that liberate words from the steadfast possession of definition.

My brother Jim and I saw our father go into the jails and pray with the inmates Sunday after Sunday. He prayed with both blacks and whites. If we ever repeated any slurs we heard on the playground, he'd tell us very softly, "I don't want to hear those words."

Words are as strong and powerful as bombs, as napalm.

You know that I write slowly. This is chiefly because I am never satisfied until I have said as much as possible in a few words, and writing briefly takes far more time than writing at length.

Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as a quack uses his remedies.

We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins.

Words can have no single fixed meaning. Like wayward electrons, they can spin away from their initial orbit and enter a wider magnetic field. No one owns them or has a proprietary right to dictate how they will be used.

This is what I want in heaven... words to become notes and conversations to be symphonies.

I think it is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises - but only performance is reality.

It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.

I was so embarrassed about mispronouncing words. I just knew how to smile.

Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words.

I would have to work on the song and figure out how they wanted the song done, because they're such high-intensity songs. We figure that out first, then I go back and listen to it and go over and rehearse stuff with it and try to get a feel for the words.

All our words from loose using have lost their edge.

Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.

Men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more than their words.

The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought.

Where I come from, deeds mean a lot more than words.

Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words.

Night, the beloved. Night, when words fade and things come alive. When the destructive analysis of day is done, and all that is truly important becomes whole and sound again. When man reassembles his fragmentary self and grows with the calm of a tree.

I had one companion. He was a teacher from the Ukraine who spoke English so we could communicate a bit. I learnt a few Russian words, but it was hard to concentrate.

Fail I alone, in words and deeds? Why, all men strive and who succeeds?

I want to promote poetry to the point where you got all the baldhead kids running around doing poetry, getting the music out of the way and having only words, the spoken word, and then see what happens.

The pure work implies the disappearance of the poet as speaker, who hands over to the words.

Time made me change. I gradually woke up to the realization that this is who I am, an author, a public figure, and I couldn't just hide in my study, tapping away at the keyboard and pretend that I didn't have a role to play beyond stringing words together.