Words Quotes

Therefore, the question is not whether such democratization is possible, but instead how to meet the yearning of the masses in the Middle East for democracy; in other words, how to achieve democratization in the Middle East.

I was a brat. It was crazy, I was very picky. In other words, I didn't take advantage of what was happening.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.

It took me about three years to write About Grace. I wasn't teaching two of those years, so I was working eight-hour days, five days a week. And it would include research and reading - it wasn't just a blank page, laying down words.

The minute you start putting words on paper you're eliminating possibilities.

I think, in a way, I invented the term 'fight club' and that these things have always existed, but they never really had a label. Nobody had a language to apply to them. I created that language in two words and I've been paid a great deal of money for inventing two words and labeling something that has always been around.

Members will hear me say repeatedly words are important; deeds are a reality.

In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand.

There are worse words than cuss words, there are words that hurt.

I don't know if I'm striving for anything that I can put into words.

Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.

I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.

Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words.

Everything was going for me, I didn't even know the meaning of the word insecurity and suddenly I am surrounded by words like operation, cancer, chemotherapy, radiation.

Why should I say I will retire in three or four years? You retire the very moment you utter those words.

When words I uttered, believing them to be true, were exposed as false, I was constrained by my duties and loyalty to the President and unable to comment. But I promised reporters and the public that I would someday tell the whole story of what I knew.

He tosses aside his paint-pots and his words a foot and a half long.

I like playing around with the words; I love it when I feel like I've picked the exact right word to describe whatever it is I'm trying to describe.

A lot of names in America and Europe have their roots in Latin and Greek words. A lot of them go back to archetypes and their stories.

I discipline churchgoers with godly lessons and sharp words if they do not change their ways. My goal is to open their hearts so that they seek forgiveness.

Acting and writing go together. Actors write because they love words and becoming other people - we love to escape into other characters.

Words are not even within me. They're not in my vocabulary to really express the kind of feeling that I had.

Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

I try to apply colors like words that shape poems, like notes that shape music.

Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

They had the music being piped right out on the street. I'd be three or four blocks from there and I couldn't get there fast enough because I'd hear old Joe holler them words.

Our strength is not just in the size of our defense budget, but in the size of our hearts, in the size of our gratitude for their sacrifice. And that's not just measured in words or gestures.

David Brinkley was an icon of modern broadcast journalism, a brilliant writer who could say in a few words what the country needed to hear during times of crisis, tragedy and triumph.

I wanted to cut down on the profanity, because I think I'm funnier without sayin' a lot of cuss words.