Words Quotes

As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us unthinkingly.

Truth is in things, and not in words.

If a composer could say what he had to say in words he would not bother trying to say it in music.

Poets write the words you have heard before but in a new sequence.

I like words. Words are places, rooms, distant airs, thin and tropical. They make us feel and imagine we are more than our bodies.

Good words are worth much, and cost little.

Either accept people for what they are, or don't. So, in other words, man, if people don't know me, I think they do themself an injustice. Because, as a whole, I think I'm a good person.

In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.

Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.

It is an excellent rule to be observed in all disputes, that men should give soft words and hard arguments; that they should not so much strive to vex as to convince each other.

An emotion is suggested and demolished in one glance by certain words.

I burned out my drawing hand by using it too much. The common word for it is writer's cramp. The fancy words for it are focal dystonia. The symptom in my case was a pinky finger that went spastic when I tried to draw.

It is a good rule never to see or talk to the man whose words have wrung your heart, or helped it, just as it is wise not to look down too closely at the luminous glow which sometimes shines on your path on a summer night, if you would not see the ugly worm below.

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.