Words Quotes

What happens is that your wretched memory remembers the words and forgets what's behind them.

This is where you see the truth of entertainment, because it is not edited. You see it on stage as it is happening. Even if we fall down or forget our words, it's a part of live entertainment.

I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old dictionaries. Words, I think, are very powerful and they convey an intention.

I just like to have words that describe things correctly. Now to me, 'black feminist' does not do that. I need a word that is organic, that really comes out of the culture, that really expresses the spirit that we see in black women. And it's just... womanish.

Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages.

Words mean nothing. Action is the only thing. Doing. That's the only thing.

Spelling is very easy to practice yourself whereas signing is not. So I would sit on the subway riding around New York and I would spell whatever I would see. When I watched a movie I would spell words as they came up.

If I were John Bolton, I'd take great consolation in the words of my principal supporter on the committee, who gave a ringing endorsement, which was, There is no evidence that he has broken any laws.

The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.

Ever since the Greeks, we have been drunk with language! We have made a cage with words and shoved our God inside!

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

Puns are a form of humor with words.

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.