Words Quotes

No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn't know the words he's saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what he's thinking logical to what you're saying.

My father always told me, you can only be your own best. In other words, if you feel you've done your best, you've done well enough.

I am not one who - who flamboyantly believes in throwing a lot of words around.

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order.

I honestly can't characterize my style in words. It seems that whatever comes to me naturally, I play.

The secret of all effective originality in advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships.

Writers used to make such wonderful pictures without all that swearing, all that cursing. And now it seems that you can't say three words without cursing. And I don't think that's right.

What fascinated me mostly about Mickey Cohen was that he, in his later years, hired someone to help him to comprehend literature, to help him to read better, to understand words better.

It does not require many words to speak the truth.

I would rather have one article a day of this sort; and these ten or twenty lines might readily represent a whole day's hard work in the way of concentrated, intense thinking and revision, polish of style, weighing of words.

Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song. Until I heard 'Little Earthquakes' all my lyrics used really obvious analogies like rain for tears.

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

The temple of art is built in words.

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

God transforms, so to speak, this air into words, into various sounds. He makes you understand these various sounds through the modifications by which you are affected.

The Israeli government has proved over the past year its commitment to peace, both in words and deeds. By contrast, the Palestinians are posing preconditions for renewing the diplomatic process in a way they have not done over the course of 16 years.

Public-opinion polls show that Americans split about evenly on civil unions. But when the words "gay marriage" are presented, they break 3-to-1 against it.

We have cut the text, but what remains are Shakespeare's words.

Let deeds match words.

After all, sustainability means running the global environment - Earth Inc. - like a corporation: with depreciation, amortization and maintenance accounts. In other words, keeping the asset whole, rather than undermining your natural capital.

If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.

When you're dealing with music without words, titles are more a means of identification than anything else. What's the point of getting lofty?

The supply of words in the world market is plentiful but the demand is falling. Let deeds follow words now.

Texting is not flirting, if you don't care about me enough to say the words than that's not love, I don't like it!

It's fairness to say those who work hard, get up in the morning, cut their cloth - in other words 'we can only afford to have one or two children because we don't earn enough'. They pay their taxes and they want to know that the same kind of decision-making is taking place for those on benefits.

Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.

Words have great cumulative power, but in the 21st century, a single image is much stronger. An image suggests the unvarnished truth. That is its power and its fiction.

I have created a life style that supports contemplation, service to words.

The sword the body wounds, sharp words the mind.

I have found that words that are loaded with pathos and create a seductive euphoria are apt to promote nonsense.