Words Quotes

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.

Correcting it, I don't know; just shedding the light of day on it is a first major step, being one of the earliest generations not to just accept the words.

Emotionally, I was affected a lot by Rage Against the Machine, not specifically the literal intention of the words or what it was about, but the feel, the sound, those phrases that got me.

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

Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.

A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

I have been a believer in the magic of language since, at a very early age, I discovered that some words got me into trouble and others got me out.

There is some pleasure even in words, when they bring forgetfulness of present miseries.

In other words, we are interested in the anatomical and mental characteristics of men living under the same biological, geographical, and social environment, and as determined by their past.

You know, there's still a lot of great songwriters out there who hand in songs. And there's a lot of brilliant singers and performers out there who sing other people's words. I enjoy doing both.

Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.

The music is the main thing and it's just as easy to write acceptable words.

I'm doing it with a rock format and the words are about people living in harmony with Mother Earth. It's very important to me - and I feel it should be for every living human on this planet.

Truthful words are not beautiful; beautiful words are not truthful. Good words are not persuasive; persuasive words are not good.

When the characters are really alive before their author, the latter does nothing but follow them in their action, in their words, in the situations which they suggest to him.

What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command.

Whenever ideas fail, men invent words.

The Law is but words and paper without the hands of swords of men.

Music is only love looking for words.

All I'm writing is just what I feel, that's all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland.

At the end of the day, the only things that are shovel ready around here are the words coming out of Barack Obama and Joe Biden's mouth.

Singers, like Frank Sinatra and myself, we interpret the songs that we like. Not unlike a Shakespearean actor that goes back to the greatest words ever written, we go back to the greatest songs and bring about my interpretation of them.

There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.

When a singer truly feels and experiences what the music is all about, the words will automatically ring true.

It is also difficult to articulate the subtleties in cinema, because there aren't words or metaphors which describe many of the emotions you are attempting to evoke.

I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.

If a commodity were in no way useful, - in other words, if it could in no way contribute to our gratification, - it would be destitute of exchangeable value, however scarce it might be, or whatever quantity of labour might be necessary to procure it.

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.