Words Quotes

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

I see some some of these other guys, and they're wearing the hats and the jackets and saying the words and they're relating and they're picking. But there's something missing.

These seem to me so ambiguous, so vague, so easily misunderstood in comparison to genuine music, which fills the soul with a thousand things better than words.

You may choose your words like a connoisseur, And polish it up with art, But the word that sways, and stirs, and stays, Is the word that comes from the heart.

It is convenient to distinguish the two kinds of experience which have thus been described, the experienc-ing and the experienc-ed, by technical words.

Oaths are but words, and words are but wind.

There's so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their meaning with the type of music or the way they're sung.

Each character I play has different dimensions. I'm not interested in words that pull them together.

Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me.

Maybe the words that I say is just another way to pray.

All the people that criticised me should eat their words.

Democracy is still a radical idea in a world where we often confuse images with realities, words with actions.

The advantage is I have my family with me all the time. When your daughter takes her first steps or says her first words and your son is going through potty training, I'm not missing any of those things.

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.

In other words the pictures are in a kind of relationship with each other which is touching only at points rather than pictures being illustrations of poems or poems extrapolations of the pictures.

He doesn't know the meaning of the word fear, but then again he doesn't know the meaning of most words.

As soon as I began, it seemed impossible to write fast enough - I wrote faster than I would write a letter - two thousand to three thousand words in a morning, and I cannot help it.

We have so many words for states of the mind, and so few for states of the body.

In poetry, you must love the words, the ideas and the images and rhythms with all your capacity to love anything at all.

Osama bin Laden's own words stated he has a war against the United States. He declared that American civilians should be considered as combatants.

Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words?

Yes, but I view Frank's music as fully composed. In other words, the arrangements can work for any idiom such as a rock band or an orchestra. Frank was a brilliant arranger and could make his music work in any context. He proved that tour after tour and album after album.

The universal principle of etymology in all languages: words are carried over from bodies and from the properties of bodies to express the things of the mind and spirit. The order of ideas must follow the order of things.

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

Drawn by warm nostalgic feelings for the place and by two sweet little words: "Open Bar."

Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.

Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don't go away, they just echo around.

You are going to use this courtroom to kill me? I am going to fight for my life one way or another. You should let me do it with words.

The words of the world want to make sentences.