Words Quotes

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.

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.

For me, words are just words, nothing else.

Dreams can be like charades in which we act out words rather than see or speak them.

Words are beautiful but restricted. They're very masculine, with a compact frame. But voice is over the dark, the place where there's nothing to hang on: it comes from a part of yourself that simply knows, expresses itself, and is.

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

A million words were going through my head and honestly I didn't say one of them. I wanted to let it sit, simmer, you know I wanted to soak it all in - the moment was amazing.

Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on.

I have a message from the Tea Party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words. We've come to take our government back.

Words signify man's refusal to accept the world as it is.

Weigh the meaning and look not at the words.

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.

I prefer to make common cause with those whose weapons are guitars, banjos, fiddles and words.

Rehearsals and this band are two words that don't really go together, kinda like Military Intelligence.

The stitch of a book is its words.