Words Quotes

Words like feminism or democracy scare me. They are words with barnacles on them, and you can't see what's underneath.

I am a slow reader. I always loved words, which is a strange thing given that I couldn't actually read them.

I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.

I had no words for these feelings. And then people started using the word Ms. Suddenly, there was this handle with which I could identify myself and understand why I felt so out of whack with the culture around me.

For diplomacy to be effective, words must be credible - and no one can now doubt the word of America.

I feel if some kid has sat down and felt I'm important enough to write two pages of words to and take up a lot of his valuable time, then he deserves a few words back, or even a phone call as I have done on a few occasions.

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

The rule of friendship means there should be mutual sympathy between them, each supplying what the other lacks and trying to benefit the other, always using friendly and sincere words.

Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.

Obviously a candidate has to be held responsible for the words that come out of his mouth, regardless of where they came from.

So when you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it.

You do your work as a photographer and everything becomes past. Words are more like thoughts; the photographer's picture is always surrounded by a kind of romantic glamor - no matter what you do, and how you twist it.

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.

Actions, not words, are the ultimate results of leadership.

In music, the punctuation is absolutely strict, the bars and rests are absolutely defined. But our punctuation cannot be quite strict, because we have to relate it to the audience. In other words we are continually changing the score.

In other words, the people who populate my books are more than caricatures.

I think it takes about a million words to make a writer. I mean that you're going to throw away.

The atheistic idea is so nonsensical that I cannot put it into words.

I would run into the corner store, the bodega, and just grab a paper bag or buy juice - anything just to get a paper bag. And I'd write the words on the paper bag and stuff these ideas in my pocket until I got back. Then I would transfer them into the notebook.

My friend and I sang an a cappella rendition of Extreme's 'More Than Words' at one of our football pep rallies in a desperate attempt to look cool. For a while, I wore pink Converse All Stars because I thought it made me seem daring and irreverent.

Words are chameleons, which reflect the color of their environment.

Proletarian language is dictated by hunger. The poor chew words to fill their bellies.

In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.

The honor I feel today being inducted into the Hall of Fame is beyond what words can describe. My thanks to the Hall of Fame committee, who saw fit to bestow this great honor upon me today.

Words make love with one another.

The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.

All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.

And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for it was the offspring of happy days, when death and grief were but words, which found no true echo in my heart.

Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.

Because you basically won a close re-election, your first task is to unify the city. And it's done not with words but with actions, by reaching out, to the supporters of your opponent as well as to reassure your own supporters.